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
Table 21. Comparison of the male skeletons’ genetic marker data. Skeletons A-STR match Y-STR match Haplotype metapopulation PCR Béla III and II/52_3 PCR: 17/22 NGS:21/22 16/16 Ria Middle East, West Asia vicinity 11/53 9/20 10/16 Ria Africa, Southern Balkan, especially in Greece, Byzantine origin 11/54 11/20 11/16 Ria Occurs in Northwestern Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Northern Poland 11/55 13/20 4/16 Rib France, Northern Italy, Northern England, Baltic region 1/3 G5 14/20 1/16 Jia Frequent on the Arabian peninsula, west bank of the Caspian Sea 1/4 H6 13/20 4/16 Rib Most frequent occurrence: France and Northern Italy There were difficulties with the evaluation of the other skeletons interred in the crypt at the Matthias Church. During his excavations in 1862 and 1874, Henszlmann found a female skeleton in one of the graves (later labelled 11/109), while the other two graves contained male skeletons (11/53 and 11/54). The grave of an additional skeleton, labelled 11/55, had a resting place that has yet to be precisely identified; it was probably near persons 11/53 and 11/54. The fact that the skeletons were in the inner temple, in the southern aisle, in an earth grave does not mean that they could be royal persons, because in this period, not only royals were buried in the inner area of the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár. Henszlmann excavated another four stone-lined graves in the northern aisle in 1874, out of which only two remain today. 203
