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

Figure 15. Diagram of the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár

with

the graves displayed on the maps excavated by Érdy

(1848)

and Henszlmann (1862-1874). Drawing by Zoltán

Szabó (2002).

The marking of grave sites took place according to the directions of Piroska

Biczó based

on the excavations of Alán

Kralovánszky between

1965 and 1993, and Piroska

Biczó between

1994 and 2002 (Á

=

graves from the Árpád

era).

The remains unearthed by Érdy

and

sent to the National Museum in metal caskets arrived at the Matthias Church in 1862. For the duration of the church’s reconstruction, they were taken from there to the Anthropological Institute of the University of Budapest in 1883, where medical anthropologist Aurél

Török conducted

studies on them and even wrote his thesis on this subject. At this time, he found the male skeleton from the third grave to be between age 20 74

11/52, Grave

of Béla

III,

Anna A

female and foetus found in Grave 4

King Lajos the Great King Charles I Princess Katalin

According to Imre Henszlmann, Graves 11/53,11/54,11/109: Saint István

and

his family

King Charles If