page_title: List of royal saints and martyrs
section_title: Saints
hierarchical_section_title: List of royal saints and martyrs / Monarchs / Saints
context_page_description: This list of royal saints and martyrs enumerates Christian monarchs, other royalty, and nobility who have been beatified or canonized, or who are otherwise venerated as or conventionally given the appellation of "saint" or "martyr". Their names are in English and, where known, in their own language. When the status of a nominee is dubious the whole entry is italicized.
context_section_description: Abgarus of Edessa, King of Osroene (Orthodox)
  Aethelberht of Kent (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Aethelberht II of East Anglia (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Alexander Nevsky (Orthodox)
  Alfred the Great of Wessex, died 26 October 899 (Anglican)
  Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (Catholic)
  Andrey Bogolyubsky, first Grand Prince of Vladimir (Orthodox)
  Archil of Kakheti, martyr (Orthodox)
  Ashot I of Iberia, martyr (Orthodox)
  Boris I of Bulgaria (Orthodox)
  Canute IV of Denmark, in Danish "Knud 4. den Hellige" (Catholic)
  Charles I of England, martyr, died 30 January 1649 (Anglican)
  Charles I, Count of Flanders, known as "St. Charles the Good", in French "Charles le Bon", in Dutch "Karel de Goede" (Catholic)
  Constantin Brancoveanu, King of Wallachia (Orthodox)
  Constantine, King of Dumnonia, martyr (there is confusion regarding his identity)
  Constantine I, Roman Emperor, died 337, known as "Constantine the Great" and "Constantine, Equal-to-the-Apostles" ("Κωνσταντίνος Α' Ἰσαπόστολος") (Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Orthodox)
  Constantine IV, Roman Emperor, died 685, known as "Constantine the New" (Orthodox)
  Constantine XI, Roman Emperor, died 1453, known as "Constantine XI Palaiologos", "The Marble Emperor", "The Last Roman Emperor"; not officially recognized by either the Byzantine Catholic or Orthodox churches, he is popularly regarded in both as the national patron saint, i. e., "Ethnomartyr" ("Ἐθνομάρτυρας"), meaning "national martyr" (unofficial)
  Cormac mac Cuilennáin, King of Munster (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Dagobert II, martyr, Merovingian king of Austrasia, son of St. Sigebert III (Catholic)
  David I of Scotland, son of St. Margaret of Scotland (see under "Other royalty and nobility" below), in Gaelic "Naomh Daibhidh" (Catholic)
  David IV of Georgia, known as "David the Builder" (Orthodox)
  David of Trebizond (Orthodox)
  Demetre I of Georgia (Orthodox)
  Demetre II of Georgia, martyr, known as "Demetre the Self-Sacrificer" (Orthodox)
  Dragutin Nemanjic, King of Serbia (Orthodox)
  Eberhard, Duke of Friuli, son-in-law of Frankish emperor Louis the Pious and ancestor of all contemporary royals (Catholic)
  Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Edward the Confessor, King of England (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Edward the Martyr, King of England (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Edwin of Northumbria (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Elesbaan of Ethiopia, King of Axum (Orthodox)
  Eric IX of Sweden, martyr, died 18 May 1161, Pope Alexander III forbid his cultus in 1172, and he was never canonized, but he is revered as a patron saint of Sweden, in Swedish "Erik den helige" and "St. Erik" (Catholic)
  Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, King of Munster (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Ferdinand III of Castile, known as "Ferdinand III the Saint", in Spanish "San Fernando" and "Fernando III el Santo" (Catholic)
  Guntram, Merovingian king of Burgundy (Catholic)
  Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, husband of Cunigunde of Luxemburg (see under "Other royalty and nobility" below), known as "St. Henry II", in German "Heinrich II. der Heilige" ("Henry II the Holy") (Catholic)
  Hermenegild of the Visigoths (Catholic, Orthodox)
  Humbert III of Savoy (Catholic)
  Jadwiga of Poland, known as "St. Hedwig of Poland", "St. Jadwiga, Queen of Poland" and "St. Hedwig, Queen of Poland", in Polish "Św. Jadwiga Królowa Polski" (Catholic)
  John III, Roman Emperor, died 1254, known as "John the Merciful" and "John III Doukas Vatatzes" (Orthodox)
  John IV, Roman Emperor, died 1305, known as "John IV Laskaris" and "John IV Doukas Laskaris" (Orthodox)
  Justinian I, Roman Emperor, died 565, known as "Justinian the Great" (Lutheran, Orthodox, Eastern Catholic)
  Justinian II, Roman Emperor, died 711, known as "Justinian Rhinotmetos" ("ὁ Ῥινότμητος", "the slit nosed") (Orthodox)
  Ladislaus I of Hungary, in Hungarian "Szent László" (Catholic)
  Lazar Hrebeljanović, Knez ("Prince" or "Duke") of Serbia, died 1389, known as "Tsar Lazar", canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church as "Свети Косовски Великомученик кнез Лазар" ("Holy Great-Martyr of Kosovo Prince Lazar"), known as "Свети Цар Лазар" ("Holy Tsar Lazar") (Serbian Orthodox Church)
  Leo I, Roman Emperor,
caption: St. Jadwiga of Anjou, Queen of Poland
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