Bela III raw DNA in 23andme format

Béla 3rd, one of the most powerful rulers of medieval Hungary, reigned from 1172 to 1196 during the height of the Árpád dynasty. Educated at the Byzantine court, he brought with him a refined sense of governance and ambition that would shape Hungary into a true Central European power.

Béla 3rd, king of Hungary from 1172 to 1196, was a proud descendant of the great Saint Ladislaus 1st through the illustrious Árpád dynasty. Ladislaus 1st himself was the son of Béla 1st of Hungary and reigned from 1077 to 1095, remembered as a pious warrior king and later canonized as a saint. Though Ladislaus had no surviving sons, the Árpád line continued through his brothers, Géza 1st and later Álmos. From this branch descended Álmos’s son, King Béla II “the Blind,” whose son Géza 2nd fathered Béla 3rd. Thus, Béla 3rd’s paternal line ran directly back through Béla 2nd, Géza 1st, and ultimately to the brotherhood of Ladislaus 1st, tying him firmly to the sainted king’s legacy.

Béla 3rd’s lineage was further strengthened by dynastic marriages. His grandfather, Béla 2nd, had married Helena of Rascia, linking the Árpáds with the Serbian royal house. Béla 3rd himself spent years in Byzantium, where he was once betrothed to a daughter of Emperor Manuel 1st Komnenos, though the marriage never took place. Instead, he wed Agnes of Antioch, a French noblewoman from the Crusader states, and later Margaret of France, widow of Henry the Young King of England. Through these unions, Béla not only reinforced Hungary’s ties with both East and West, but also expanded his dynasty’s reach across Europe.

For this video, I gathered the raw genome of Bela 3rd from the European Nucleotide Archive.

I ran his genome through my trait predictor tool for DNA analysis.