All were said to have been remembered as just and pious rulers.

But the next day we lavished praise on Caligula as a sincere and pious ruler and voted annual sacrifices to his Clemency.

He was regarded as a pious, brilliant and generous ruler by his supporters.

He was a pious, benevolent ruler who adhered to his duties as a king as prescribed by dharma.

Her father was a very pious ruler who gave much attention to works of charity in his duchy.

He was a pious honest and good ruler.

That is the case among the rigidly puritanical and pious rulers of Gilead.

That wasn't the way a good and pious ruler was supposed to address his clerics, but he was too fed up to care.

To be sure, the latter did not always approve of royal actions, for even the most pious rulers occasionally transgressed.

Chaitanya Singh was another pious ruler unfit to face the difficulties.