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

Persons

Estimated anthropological age of the skeletons at the time of death (in years)

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

Béla III

(t 48 years old)

50

48-52

45-49

Anne A. (f 31 years old)

40

30-40

35

37-41

Grave 3, male, II/52_3

Above

30

20-22

Not identical

Grave 4, female

20-23

lost

Grave 4, fetus

7-8 months

1/3 G5, male

36-40

1/4 H6, male

37-41

11/53, male

26

21-27

11/54, male

Below

30

32-38

11/55, male

36-42

11/109, female

35-41

Table 3. The table displays the anthropological age of the skeletons originating from the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár

and

kept in the Matthias Church which underwent genetic analyses. Also displayed are the actual ages of Béla

III

and Anne of Antioch.

A: Age

determined by Érdy

at

the time of exhumation (December 5, 1848).

B: December

1848, dating of a medical committee consisting of unknown members from Budapest.

C: Age

given by Henszlmann and the medical committee from Székesfehérvár in

1862.

D: Anthropological

dating carried out by a medical committee of a scientific university in Budapest before the royal couples final interment in the Matthias Church.

E: Aurél

Töröks

(1883)

estimated age data.

F: Age

calculated by Regöly-Mérei

(1968)

and László

Harsányt

G: Anthropological

dating ofÉry

’s working

group (2008).

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