Further insights on the curious case of bishop Peder Winstrup's burial.
In 2021 we published results of genomic analyses carried out on the famous bishop of Lund, Peder Winstrup, and the mummified remains of a 5–6-month-old foetus discovered in the same burial [1]. We concluded that the two individuals were second-degree relatives and explored the genealogy of Peder Winstrup to further understand the possible relation between them. Through this analysis we found that the boy was most probably Winstrup's grandson, and that the two were equally likely related either through Winstrup's son, Peder, or his daughter Anna Maria von Böhnen. To further resolve the specific kinship relation, we have generated more genomic data from both Winstrup and the boy, and implemented more recently published analytical tools in detailed Y chromosome and X chromosome-based kinship analyzes to distinguish between the competing hypotheses regarding maternal and paternal relatedness. We find that individuals' Y chromosome lineages belong to different sub-lineages and that the X chromosomal kinship coef-ficient calculated between the two individuals are elevated, suggesting a grandparent-grandchild relation through a female, i.e., Anna Maria von Böhnen. Finally, we also performed metagenomic analyses which did not identify any pathogens that could be unambiguously associated with the fatalities