That savage act of regicide was not an isolated horror. The people of Flanders rose against their hated French masters in 1302, and killed many of them in an epic slaughter called the Matin de Bruges. Then they defeated the French nobility in the Battle of the Spurs at Courtrai. In France, King Louis X (remembered as Louis the Quarrelsome) was deposed in 1316. Twelve years later, the Capetian dynasty collapsed after more than three centuries in power.
