Zapomenuté hrobky Talmberků v kostele Panny Marie Vítězné a svatého Antonína Paduánského na Malé Straně v Praze (17.–18. století)

The forgotten tombs of the Talmberks in the Church of Our Lady of Victory & St. Anthony of Padua in the Lesser Town, Prague (17th–18th centuries) In 1654 the Talmberks, an old Bohemian noble family, established the Lady Chapel and Chapel of the Child Jesus, now called the Chapel of the Holy Rood (Cross), in the Church of Our Lady of Victory & St. Anthony of Padua (Lesser Town, Prague). According to the founding documents, both chapels were originally earmarked for family burials. Although the founders themselves were not ultimately buried here, six members of the family were, in the 18th century. The restoration of the church’s catacombs began in 1971 and was completed in 1999/2000; most of the skeletal remains recovered were transferred to the collections of the Department of the Anthropology of the National Museum in Prague. An osteodemographic revision of these remains and research into archival sources related to the local burials were initiated in 2024, with the aim of individually identifying as many of the skeletons as possible, including those of the Talmberks. However, a revision of the catacomb and church plans, and new measurements within the church, showed that the crypts beneath the two Talmberk chapels were built as separate spaces completely separated from their surroundings, thereby escaping the clearing of the catacombs during renovation, leaving the skeletal remains of the Talmberks in situ, untouched.