If you were to inventory your attic correctly now , chances are you ’d have the same old stuff everyone squeeze up there : Christmas laurel wreath , remnant pieces of carpet or tile , and the box of previous yearbooks your mom made you take with you when you finally moved out . Then there ’s retired tax collector Jacques Bellanger , whokepta dry up straits in his .
The head was think to have belonged to King Henry IV , a French royal stag who was assassinated in 1610 . Henry ’s head was still attached to his body when he was stabbed to death in 1610 … so how did he come to be separated from it ? While we do n’t screw for trusted , historiansbelieverevolutionaries absent it as a political statement when they comb the Basilica of Saint Denis in 1793 . After that , the head was passed around to various private collectors for more than a hundred . The lead picks up again in 1919 , when a photographer purchase it for three franc , and then again in 1953 , when Jacques Bellanger add it to his collection . It was removed from Bellanger ’s attic in 2008 .
“ We do n’t have any desoxyribonucleic acid , but we can manage without it , ” allege a forensic aesculapian tester on the research team land in to analyze the remains at the time . “ We have too much proof supporting the recognition , at least 30 component , and none of it goes against the identification . ” Some of that proof included skull injuries thatmatchedinjuries King Henry had , as well as a distinctivemoleon one of the nostrils . Facial reconstructive memory also supported the possibility .
However , when the deoxyribonucleic acid testing did finally come through in 2013 , results disproved the head - of - King - Henry theory : A sampling taken from the remains did n’t match samples take from three of the king ’s living descendent . Despite the apparent lack of royal lineage , officials design to give the unidentified head aproper inhumation . That may take a while , as multitude are still unsure about the truth of the DNA trial . But if it’snotKing Henry ’s fountainhead , that signify his skull is still out there somewhere . When was the last time you cleaned your attic ?
