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 ELEVEN – SUMMARY

Their child was Prince Álmos

of

the Árpád

Dynasty,

whose wife was Predslava of Kiev. In the case of Béla

II

and Predslava, the mitochondrial haplogroup was inherited through the maternal line. Skeleton 11/52 s mitochondrial haplogroup is also not Serbian, but rather its western type, so according to this, skeleton 11/52 must be King Béla

II.

7. Genetic

investigation of the fetus. The maternal A-STR markers of the fetus are identical in a ratio of 13/15 to the one of alleles (maternal) of skeleton II/52_3. The 16294T and 16296T SNV found in the mitochondrial genes HRV1 region determined the fetus’ T2b haplogroup. These data together prove that the mother of the fetus could not be anyone other than Predslava of Kiev, and skeleton II/52_3 is Béla

II

(the Blind), and thus, the fetus is Béla Il

’s sibling.

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