I knew of Saint Henry II (+1024), Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Queen Saint Cunegunda (+1040), but there was another king and queen who were saints. They were the Welsh king and queen, Gwynllyw (10th century)) and his wife Gwladys (Claudia). They also had a son who is a saint, Cadoc, whose vita is the first saint’s life to mention King Arthur.
One account has Gwynllyw converting from a life of warfare to that of a hermit. He was said to be a just king who, after abandoning the battlefield, ruled the Welsh peacefully. At some point he married the fair Gwladys, daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, who is said in Irish legend to have sired many saintly children. Abandoning the throne, husband and wife shared a celebate life in a hermitage. To avoid temptation they later separated and live as solitaries.
If Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary, who was beatified in 2004, and Venerable Empress Zita are canonized they would be a third king and his queen to be raised to the altar.
King St. Gwynllyw and Queen St. Gwladys
