Árpád Dynasty
845 - 1301 CE
Shared Ancestor
3000 BCE
You and Árpád Dynasty share a common paternal line ancestor who lived around this time.
In the first millennia CE, the Carpathian Basin, where modern-day Hungary lies, was contested by many Eastern European powers including the First Bulgarian Empire, East Francia, and Moravia. These three powers and others often recruited mercenaries of Asian ancestry from the Ural Mountains to fight for them.
In the late 9th century CE, these tribes united and elected the leader of the Magyar Tribe, Álmos, to lead the coalition of tribes in the conquest of the Carpathian Basin. While Álmos was killed early in this conquest, his son Árpád went on to lead a successful campaign that resulted in a dynasty lasting more than four centuries.
The remains of a direct paternal descendant of Árpád’s, King Béla III of Hungary, were discovered in the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár in 1848.
Peter Nagy et al. 2020 sequenced and analyzed DNA from Béla III of Hungary and 8 other individuals buried in the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár and determined that one of the unknown men, HU52, was a close patrilineal relative of Bela III. The currently closest present-day Y-DNA tested patrilineal relative of the Árpáds is an anonymous man from Novi Sad (Ujvidek) in present-day Serbia.
Varga et al. 2022 additionally sequenced and analyzed DNA from Saint Ladislaus (Ladislaus I of Hungary, great-great-granduncle of Bela III) and performed relatedness analysis with Béla III and HU52. They determined that HU52 was one of the 5 grandsons of Bela III and that the most likely candidate is Prince Andreas, also known as Andrew of Hungary, Prince of Halych.
Genetic and historical information sourced from Peter Nagy et al. 2020 and Varga et al. 2022
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