Duke Béla of Macsó

Béla of Macsó was a grandson of King Béla IV of Hungary and governed the duchy of Macsó on the kingdom's southern frontier. In 1272 he was assassinated — cut down by rival barons in one of the era's most notorious political murders, an event vividly recorded by chroniclers. Modern forensics matched the sword-marked skeleton from Margaret Island to the murdered duke, and his genome ties him firmly into the Árpád royal network.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Forensic and bioarchaeological identification of the skeletal remains of Béla, Duke of Macsó.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because this is a single real individual, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that Duke Béla of Macsó is your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who was Duke Béla of Macsó?

  Duke Béla of Macsó (1245–1272 CE, Margaret Island, Hungary) is one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by one sequenced ancient genome published in the study "Forensic and bioarchaeological identification of the skeletal remains of Béla, Duke of Macsó".

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  What does "matching" Duke Béla of Macsó mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Is Duke Béla of Macsó my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near this individual's in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to Duke Béla of Macsó?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers — browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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