Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

CHAPTER TEN – Unique identification of the skeletons

CHAPTER TEN

ERZSÉBET CSERNÁK, JUDIT

OLASZ,

ZOLTÁN SZENTIRMAY

(WITH CONTRIBUTION BY BALÁZS

HOLCZMANN)

UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SKELETONS

1. Origins of Béla

III

and the persons interred in the Matthias Church labelled 11/53,11/54,11/55,1/3 G5 and 1/4 H6

All five skeletons were buried in the inner area of the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár

and

all were placed in sarcophagi at the Matthias Church’s crypt as it was assumed that they were all relatives of Árpád

Dynasty Kings (Reges

Hungáriáé). This

assumption is not confirmed by the data presented in Table 19.

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