 A succession crisis ensued in the County of Flanders in 1119 upon the sudden death of the childless Count Baldwin VII, William's cousin.Though illegitimate, William remained the last male-line descendant of Count Robert the Frisian.His claim to the countship was supported by Baldwin's mother, the powerful dowager Clementia of Burgundy,and her second husband Godfrey I, Count of Louvain, but Flanders nevertheless passed to the Danish prince Charles the Good, son of Robert I's daughter Adela and Canute IV of Denmark ..