Looking for royal saints other than this list

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Hey, guys. Not to trouble you with looking really, but if you do know of a Catholic saint who was a king, duke or some other kind of feudal head of state in the 1066-1337 time-frame I’d be grateful. This time-frame and the requirement to be an actual ruler (count or above) is set in stone due to some formal restrictions. Therefore I do need only real, regnant rulers, so consorts, i.e. queens, duchesses, princesses etc. who were wives, daughters and sisters don’t qualify and neither do stewards, chancellors and other high officials, it’s strictly got to be 1066 to 1337 (between Norman conquest and Hundred Years War) and strictly rulers but if a doge from a mediaeval Italian republic happened to be canonised, it would be okay too. Canonised or beatified, I mean. Blessed too, not only “full” saints.

Here are those I already have:

Louis IX of France
David I of Scotland
Ladislaus I (Laszlo) of Hungary
Canute IV of Denmark
Charles the Good, Count of Flanders
Eric IX of Sweden (canonisation/cult somewhat controversial)
Canute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig, Danish prince
Magnus Erlendsson of Orkney, iarl
Ragnvald Kolsson of Orkney, iarl
Ferdinand III of Castille
Louis IV of Thuringia, margrave
Humbert III of Savoy, count
Leopold III of Austria, margrave

I know there’s a host of Georgian rulers canonised by the Orthodox Church (Demetre I and II, David IV, Tamar, got them covered) and a good number of Russian princes (Alexander Nevsky and some others) and some Serbian or other Balkan Orthodox rulers but I’m primarily sticking with Catholic rulers. (Although Orthodox ones are okay too, if the canonisation isn’t particularly odd or associated with opposing the Pope.)

Thanks!
 
Not sure if it counts, but in that time period Popes were also temporal feudal rulers who would fit your parameters in every way. The beatified and canonized ones from your time period are as follows:

St. Gregory VII
Bl. Victor III
Bl. Urban II
Bl. Eugene III
Bl. Gregory X
Bl. Innocent V
St. Celestine V
Bl. Benedict XI
 
Saint Edward the Confessor of England did rule for 5 days of 1066. He died Jan 5 of that year.
 
datritle said:
i am curious why such specific parameters? what’s this for?
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Computer game, actually (my favourite free time activity). You can play as historical feudal rulers, anybody high enough on the feudal ladder between 1337-1453 except for the ecclesiastics or people who are not actual rulers but wives or husbands or children (only the rulers are playable).

I’m pretty sure there should be more on the duke and count level (knights and small lords would be too tiny to be included on the map), like, what I’ve been able to find seems rather short (while it’s true that most royal saints on the British Isles, for example, who were particularly numerous, lived far before the Norman conquest). I’m particularly surprised to be able to p(name removed by moderator)oint only 2 canonised princes in the entire Holy Roman Empire from 1066 to 1337.
 
chevalier said:
Hey, guys. Not to trouble you with looking really, but if you do know of a Catholic saint who was a king, duke or some other kind of feudal head of state in the 1066-1337 time-frame I’d be grateful. This time-frame and the requirement to be an actual ruler (count or above) is set in stone due to some formal restrictions. Therefore I do need only real, regnant rulers, so consorts, i.e. queens, duchesses, princesses etc. who were wives, daughters and sisters don’t qualify and neither do stewards, chancellors and other high officials, it’s strictly got to be 1066 to 1337 (between Norman conquest and Hundred Years War) and strictly rulers but if a doge from a mediaeval Italian republic happened to be canonised, it would be okay too. Canonised or beatified, I mean. Blessed too, not only “full” saints.

Here are those I already have:

Louis IX of France
David I of Scotland
Ladislaus I (Laszlo) of Hungary
Canute IV of Denmark
Charles the Good, Count of Flanders
Eric IX of Sweden (canonisation/cult somewhat controversial)
Canute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig, Danish prince
Magnus Erlendsson of Orkney, iarl
Ragnvald Kolsson of Orkney, iarl
Ferdinand III of Castille
Louis IV of Thuringia, margrave
Humbert III of Savoy, count
Leopold III of Austria, margrave

I know there’s a host of Georgian rulers canonised by the Orthodox Church (Demetre I and II, David IV, Tamar, got them covered) and a good number of Russian princes (Alexander Nevsky and some others) and some Serbian or other Balkan Orthodox rulers but I’m primarily sticking with Catholic rulers. (Although Orthodox ones are okay too, if the canonisation isn’t particularly odd or associated with opposing the Pope.)

Thanks!
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Stephen of Hungary
Wenceslaus of Bohemia (was a Duke but the HREmperor “promoted” him after his death)

this might also help- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royal_saints_and_martyrs
 
chevalier said:
Computer game, actually (my favourite free time activity). You can play as historical feudal rulers, anybody high enough on the feudal ladder between 1337-1453 except for the ecclesiastics or people who are not actual rulers but wives or husbands or children (only the rulers are playable).

I’m pretty sure there should be more on the duke and count level (knights and small lords would be too tiny to be included on the map), like, what I’ve been able to find seems rather short (while it’s true that most royal saints on the British Isles, for example, who were particularly numerous, lived far before the Norman conquest). I’m particularly surprised to be able to p(name removed by moderator)oint only 2 canonised princes in the entire Holy Roman Empire from 1066 to 1337.
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CK2 or EU3?
 
Glacies said:
Saint Olaf II was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028 whose local local canonisation was confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1164. Cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Olaf
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Thanks. Yeah, I know about St. Olaf but unfortunately he falls before my timeframe. 😦
oldcatholicguy said:
Stephen of Hungary
Wenceslaus of Bohemia (was a Duke but the HREmperor “promoted” him after his death)

this might also help- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royal_saints_and_martyrs
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Same with St. Stephen and St. “Good King Wenceslaus”. 😉

And yeah, I’ve vetted that list already, and some more that were on wiki (they aren’t fully synchronised, you can find some people through the normal lists of saints).
 
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