125. Saint Canute IV is Murdered, Odense, Denmark 1086 AND Blessed Charles the Good is Murdered, Bruges, Flanders 1127

In this episode, True Crime Medieval brings you two crimes, a father and son, both murdered in churches, though for different reasons altogether. Canute had enraged the peasants and nobility both, by enforcing the collection of tithes, while Charles had infuriated a badly behaved but powerful family which took it amiss when Charles attempted to make them stop gouging peasants during a famine.…