Archaeologists Excavating a Monastery in Spain Identified the Remains of a 14th-Century Queen—and Multiple Skeletons Buried in the Wrong Graves

Medieval Queen’s Remains Exhumed in Spain - Archaeology Magazine

BARCELONA, SPAIN—Live Science reports that scientists from the Institute of Culture of Barcelona have examined 25 skeletons discovered in eight graves at Barcelona’s Royal Monastery of Santa Maria Pedralbes, which was founded in the fourteenth century by Queen Elisenda of Montcada. She moved into a small palace next to the monastery after the death of her husband, James II. When Elisenda died in 1364, her remains were dressed in a monastic habit…

Archaeologists Excavating a Monastery in Spain Identified the Remains of a 14th-Century Queen—and Multiple Skeletons Buried in the Wrong Graves

The tomb of Elisenda of Montcada has long fascinated experts. But the team was surprised to learn that burials supposedly belonging to a medieval knight and an abbess held entirely different individuals

Archaeologists probing 700-year-old monastery tombs in Spain find remains of women and children

A centuries-old monastery in Barcelona is rewriting part of its own history after archaeologists opened tombs that had gone largely unquestioned for generations, and one of the biggest surprises was a grave long believed to hold Artau de Foces that contained no male remains at all. Researchers examining eight 14th-century tombs at the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes found evidence that casts doubt on several traditional identificatio…