Overview
- Workers repairing the floor of Maastricht’s Sint-Pieter en -Paulus church uncovered a sealed burial holding human remains.
- A French coin from the era and a musket ball found at chest height match written accounts of d’Artagnan’s fatal wound.
- The skeleton lay under a former altar in consecrated ground, which local clergy say fits a high‑status burial.
- DNA taken from a jaw fragment is undergoing analysis in Munich for a match with samples from identified descendants, with results pending.
- ANSA points to a 2008 French historian’s hypothesis placing d’Artagnan’s grave at this church, while researchers caution that any confirmation could turn the site into a pilgrimage draw.