EPISODE · Jun 9, 2026 · 37 MIN
125. Saint Canute IV is Murdered, Odense, Denmark 1086 AND Blessed Charles the Good is Murdered, Bruges, Flanders 1127
from True Crime Medieval · host Anne Brannen and Michelle Butler
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. Michelle is both scandalized and gratified by getting to talk about Yet Another Sacrilegious Murder In A Church, and Anne is delighted by finding a hotel in Bruges that has a hard to find museum in its basement, the foundations of the cathedral that Charles the Good was murdered in. Because apparently the French revolution took down the church but missed the basement.
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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. Michelle is both scandalized and gratified by getting to talk about Yet Another Sacrilegious Murder I...
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125. Saint Canute IV is Murdered, Odense, Denmark 1086 AND Blessed Charles the Good is Murdered, Bruges, Flanders 1127
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