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
2. New results obtained during the genetic investigation of the medieval skeletons interred in the Matthias Church 1. We synchronized the historical, palaeopathological, morphological, genetic and radiocarbon dating data with each other, allowing for successful completion of the task we had set for ourselves. There had previously been no example of such a widespread multidisciplinary summary analysis. 2. The anthropological survey conducted in 1984 did not consider person II/52_3 to be identical to the person originally found; instead, it was considered to be an unknown skeleton and was excluded from the Árpád Dynasty Kings and their close relatives. Thanks to the aforementioned multidisciplinary work, we were able to prove that person II/52_3 is Béla II (the Blind). 3. Up until this point, out of the persons in the five adjacent graves excavated by János Érdy we were only able to identify King Béla III and his wife, Queen Anne of Antioch, from the first and second graves. We have proven that it was Béla II (the Blind) who was buried in grave three. The fourth grave contained Predslava of Kiev and her fetus, who was the sibling of Béla II (the Blind). In the fifth grave, it was probably Prince Álmos of the Árpád Dynasty who was laid to rest. 4. The identities of King Béla III and his wife were disputed by historian Endre Tóth, who believed that they were instead Kálmán the Learned and his wife. Using archaeological, palaeopathological and computed tomographic (CT) 210
