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 THREE – Archaeological, anthropological and radiological data

that Anne of Antioch’s earthly remains show signs of a type of osteoporosis that is caused by giving birth many times (Regöly-Mérei 1968).

The fact is that Queen Anne had seven children, while Kálmán

’s first

wife Felicia only had three.

3. At

the National Institute of Oncology’s Centre of Oncological Imaging and Invasive Diagnostics, Dr Mária

Gödény generated

computed tomographic (CT) images. The Chronicon Pictum

states that Kálmán

had

been suffering from severe headaches, and his doctor put a bandage on his ear, through which a “large part of the King’s brain leaked out”. The chronicler was actually describing the symptoms of pustulous ear infection. This disease always comes with bone erosion, but the person whose male skull was unearthed in 1848 had a perfectly intact skull (Figure 16), so he could not have suffered from the disease that afflicted Kálmán

the

Learned.

The scientific literature cited above conclusively disproves Tóth

’s theory and confirms the contemporary scientists. Accordingly, we quote Érdy

’s conclusion,

which still applies today: “Marble sarcophagus I and II therefore, belong to Hungarian King Béla

III

and his wife, Queen Anne, since the reasons cited could be applied to them alone and to no other Hungarian King and his wife that lived in the 12th century”.

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