Dreihundert Jahre des Drachen, Generation um Generation

Der Stammbaum der Targaryens

Haus Targaryen, Wurzel und Zweig — von Aegon dem Eroberer und seinen Schwester-Königinnen bis zu den letzten Drachen des Zeitalters. Jedes Band ist eine Generation; die Zeile unter einem Namen nennt seine Eltern, sodass sich die Abstammung die Seite hinab liest. Die Regierungsjahre folgen den Maestern.

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Generation 1

The Exile and the Dreamer (c. 114 BC)

Aenar Targaryenthe Exile

fl. c. 114 BC, if the Valyrian records be trusted

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Vermählt wives and sisters, their names lost

He sold his estates in the Freehold and removed his household, five dragons, and his pride to a smoking rock in the narrow sea, on no firmer authority than a daughter's dream. Twelve years later Valyria burned, which rather settled the argument.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Daenys Targaryenthe Dreamer

fl. c. 114 BC

Vermählt Gaemon the Glorious, her brother

Eltern Aenar Targaryen

Her book of prophecies, Signs and Portents, is said to survive on Dragonstone, though no maester of the Citadel has been permitted to weigh its accuracy. Foreseeing the Doom remains the single best-attested prediction in the history of the discipline.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Gaemon Targaryenthe Glorious

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Vermählt Daenys the Dreamer, his sister

Eltern Aenar Targaryen

What precisely he did to earn the style 'Glorious' the chronicles neglect to say, which tells us something about the chronicles. He wed his sister after the Valyrian fashion and kept the line unbroken.

Quellen TWOIAF

Generation 2

Lords of the Narrow Sea (c. 100–50 BC)

Aegon Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Vermählt Elaena Targaryen, his sister; they ruled together

Eltern Gaemon Targaryen · Daenys Targaryen

He shared the lordship with his sister-wife, an arrangement later Targaryens would emulate with markedly less domestic tranquility.

Quellen TWOIAF

Elaena Targaryen

Betitelt Lady of Dragonstone

Vermählt Aegon Targaryen, her brother

Eltern Gaemon Targaryen · Daenys Targaryen

One of the few women to rule Dragonstone in her own right, jointly with her brother. The records grant her a name and little else, a courtesy the records extend to most women.

Quellen TWOIAF

Maegon Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Eltern Aegon Targaryen · Elaena Targaryen

He died without issue and the seat passed to his brother. The first Maegon; the later Maegor would make the name no luckier.

Quellen TWOIAF

Aerys Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Eltern Aegon Targaryen · Elaena Targaryen

Brother and heir to Maegon, and father of three lords in turn. The first bearer of a name that would end poorly on the Iron Throne, twice.

Quellen TWOIAF

Aelyx Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Eltern Aerys Targaryen

Eldest of the three sons of Aerys who held Dragonstone each in turn, the first two dying childless. The Citadel possesses no explanation, which has never stopped anyone from proposing one.

Quellen TWOIAF

Baelon Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Eltern Aerys Targaryen

Second of the childless brothers. His tenure is a name in a list; history owes him nothing and has paid in full.

Quellen TWOIAF

Daemion Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Eltern Aerys Targaryen

Last of the three brothers, and the only one to leave a son — a small mercy without which the Conquest, the realm, and this chronicle would all be considerably shorter.

Quellen TWOIAF

Generation 3

The Eve of the Conquest

Aerion Targaryen

Betitelt Lord of Dragonstone

Vermählt Lady Valaena Velaryon

Eltern Daemion Targaryen

Father of the Conqueror and his sister-queens, and — if the kitchen gossip of Dragonstone is admitted as evidence — of Orys Baratheon besides. He did not live to see his children remake a continent.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Valaena Velaryon

Betitelt Lady of Dragonstone

Vermählt Aerion, Lord of Dragonstone

Herself half Targaryen through her mother, so the Conqueror's Valyrian blood ran thick on both sides. The Velaryons have never let anyone forget it.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Generation 4

The Conquerors

Visenyadie ältere Schwesterkönigin

28 v. A. E. – 44 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Drache Vhagar

Vermählt ihr Bruder Aegon I.

Eltern Aerion Targaryen · Valaena Velaryon

Ältere Schwester und erste Gemahlin Aegons, eine Kriegerin, die die valyrische Klinge Dunkle Schwester trug und die Königsgarde gründete. Die Maester nennen sie die härtere der Königinnen des Eroberers.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Aegon I.der Eroberer, der Drache

27 v. A. E. – 37 n. A. E.Regierte 1–37 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 1–37 AC)

Drache Balerion der Schwarze Schrecken

Vermählt seine Schwestern Visenya & Rhaenys

Eltern Aerion Targaryen · Valaena Velaryon

Mit seinen Schwestern und drei Drachen schmiedete er die Sieben Königslande zu einem einzigen und errichtete den Eisernen Thron aus den Schwertern seiner gefallenen Feinde. Sechs Königreiche nahm er mit Feuer; allein Dorne trotzte ihm.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B · AGOT

Rhaenysdie jüngere Schwesterkönigin

25 v. A. E. – 10 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Drache Meraxes

Vermählt ihr Bruder Aegon I.

Eltern Aerion Targaryen · Valaena Velaryon

Jüngere Schwester und zweite Gemahlin Aegons, die meistgeliebte der drei und Gönnerin der Sänger. Sie und Meraxes gingen über Dorne verloren, als ein Skorpionbolzen ihren Drachen vom Himmel riss.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Generation 5

Sons of the Dragon

Aenys I.

7 n. A. E. – 42 n. A. E.Regierte 37–42 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 37–42 AC)

Drache Quicksilver

Vermählt Alyssa Velaryon

Eltern Aegon I. · Rhaenys

Aegons sanfter Sohn durch Rhaenys, wenig geeignet für ein Reich, das noch nach Drachenfeuer roch. Seine kurze Herrschaft wurde von Rebellion und dem wachsenden Zorn des Glaubens erschüttert.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Maegor I.der Grausame

12 n. A. E. – 48 n. A. E.Regierte 42–48 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 42–48 AC)

Drache Balerion

Vermählt sechs Frauen, die Schwarzen Bräute

Eltern Aegon I. · Visenya

Aegons Sohn durch Visenya, mit gutem Grund der Grausame genannt — er führte Krieg gegen den Streitbaren Glauben und nahm sechs Frauen ohne lebende Nachkommen. Man fand ihn tot auf dem Eisernen Thron selbst, dessen Klingen in seinem Fleisch.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Generation 6

The Children of King Aenys

Rhaena Targaryenthe Queen in the West; the Black Bride

23 – 73 AC

Drache Dreamfyre

Vermählt Aegon the Uncrowned, her brother; Maegor I, her uncle; Androw Farman

Eltern Aenys I.

Twice a queen and thrice a widow-maker's widow: her brother slain by their uncle, her uncle dead on his throne, her third husband a poisoner she fed to her dragon's namesake isle. She ended her days at Harrenhal, which she called a fitting home for grief.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Aegon Targaryenthe Uncrowned

26 – 43 AC

Betitelt claimant King of the Seven Kingdoms

Drache Quicksilver

Vermählt Rhaena Targaryen, his sister

Eltern Aenys I.

Rightful heir by any law of succession then written, he raised his banner against his uncle and met Balerion above the Gods Eye. Quicksilver was a quarter the Black Dread's size, a ratio the battle faithfully reproduced.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Viserys Targaryen

29 – 44 AC

Vermählt unwed

Eltern Aenys I.

Kept at court as his uncle Maegor's squire, which is to say his hostage. When his mother fled to raise the realm against the king, the boy paid the price of her courage; Tyanna's questioners took nine days about it.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Jaehaerys I.der Schlichter, der Alte König

34 n. A. E. – 103 n. A. E.Regierte 48–103 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 48–103 AC)

Drache Vermithor

Vermählt seine Schwester Alysanne

Eltern Aenys I.

Der Schlichter, genannt der Alte König, der fünfundfünfzig Jahre regierte — länger als jeder andere Targaryen — und dem Reich Gesetz, Straßen und Frieden mit dem Glauben schenkte. Die Citadel hält ihn für den größten seiner Linie.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B · AGOT

Alysannedie Gute Königin

36 n. A. E. – 100 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Drache Silverwing

Vermählt ihr Bruder Jaehaerys I.

Eltern Aenys I.

Die Gute Königin, Schwester und Gemahlin Jaehaerys', geliebt für ihre Weisheit und ihre Fürsorge für das gemeine Volk. Sie flog auf Silverwing zur Mauer und erwirkte kleine Gnaden, die Könige lange verweigert hatten.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Vaella Targaryen

died in the cradle

Eltern Aenys I.

The last child of Aenys and Alyssa, dead in infancy and remembered chiefly by completists. This chronicle is nothing if not complete.

Quellen F&B

Generation 7

The Old King's Brood

Aerea Targaryen

42 – 56 AC

Drache Balerion the Black Dread (claimed, unwisely)

Eltern Aegon Targaryen · Rhaena Targaryen

Once heir to the Iron Throne, she claimed the Black Dread at thirteen and vanished for a year, returning fevered from — Septon Barth believed — Valyria itself. What died at Dragonstone was recorded by the only man brave enough to attend it, and his account is not read for pleasure.

Quellen F&B

Rhaella Targaryen

b. 42 AC

Betitelt Septa of Oldtown

Eltern Aegon Targaryen · Rhaena Targaryen

Aerea's twin, given to the Faith as an infant, or possibly the twin swapped for Aerea — their mother alone knew and declined to say. She lived out her days quietly in the Starry Sept, which for a woman of this family constitutes a triumph.

Quellen F&B

Aegon Targaryen

52 AC, three days only

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The Old King's firstborn, come too soon and gone in three days. The maesters who count thirteen children of Jaehaerys begin their count in sorrow.

Quellen F&B

Daenerys Targaryen

53 – 60 AC

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The first princess of her name, a merry child carried off by the Shivers at seven. Two later Daeneryses would fare better, though one of them is still being written.

Quellen F&B

Aemon Targaryen

55 – 92 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Drache Caraxes

Vermählt Jocelyn Baratheon

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

Heir apparent for near forty years, slain on Tarth by a Myrish crossbow bolt meant for another man. His death posed the question — his daughter or his brother? — that the Old King answered one way, the Great Council another, and the Dance answered in fire.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Baelonder Tapfere, Prinz von Drachenstein

57 n. A. E. – 101 n. A. E.

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Drache Vhagar

Vermählt seine Schwester Alyssa

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

Der Tapfere genannt, zweiter Sohn Jaehaerys' und Alysannes und Reiter der alten Vhagar, zum Erben ernannt, nachdem sein Bruder Aemon gestorben war. Ein geplatzter Leib raffte ihn dahin, ehe er erben konnte, und die Thronfolge nahm einen unruhigen Fortgang.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

AlyssaPrinzessin von Drachenstein

60 n. A. E. – 84 n. A. E.

Drache Meleys

Vermählt ihr Bruder Baelon

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

Tochter Jaehaerys' und Alysannes, vermählt mit ihrem Bruder Baelon und Mutter von Viserys und Daemon. Sie starb jung, und ihr Tod betrübte den Alten König schwer.

Quellen F&B

Maegelle Targaryen

62 – 96 AC

Betitelt Septa

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

Given to the Faith, she became the family's peacemaker and died of greyscale contracted nursing its victims. Sanctity is rare enough in this house to deserve a line of its own.

Quellen F&B

Vaegon Targaryenthe Dragonless

b. 63 AC

Betitelt Archmaester of the Citadel, ring, rod and mask of yellow gold

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The only dragon ever to earn an archmaester's mask, he preferred equations to courtiers and told his father as much. The Citadel notes with quiet satisfaction that the family's sole maester is also its least troublesome member.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Daella Targaryen

c. 64 – 82 AC

Vermählt Lord Rodrik Arryn

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

Timid, sweet, and frightened of nearly everything, she died at eighteen birthing the daughter who would be Viserys I's first queen. Through gentle Daella, then, runs the line to Rhaenyra — history has a taste for such ironies.

Quellen F&B

Saera Targaryen

b. 67 AC; last reported in Volantis

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The wild daughter, caught at scandal, sent to the silent sisters, and gone over the wall to Lys before her vows. She ended a wealthy woman keeping a famous pleasure house in Volantis, and when invited home replied that she was home — one rather admires her.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Viserra Targaryen

71 – 89 AC

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The beauty of the brood, promised to old Lord Manderly and determined to wed a prince instead. A midnight horse race through King's Landing, taken drunk, ended the question at seventeen.

Quellen F&B

Gaemon Targaryen

73 AC, died in infancy

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The eleventh child, dead within the year. The queen was forty-seven; the maesters had counseled against further children, and were not thanked for it.

Quellen F&B

Valerion Targaryen

77 – 78 AC

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The twelfth child, who did not see his second year. His name is preserved here so that somewhere, at least, it is preserved.

Quellen F&B

Gael Targaryenthe Winter Child

80 – 99 AC

Eltern Jaehaerys I. · Alysanne

The last and simplest of the thirteen, her mother's shadow and comfort. Seduced and abandoned by a wandering singer, she drowned herself in Blackwater Bay; the court was told a summer fever, and the queen never recovered from the truth.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Generation 8

Heirs of the Spring Prince

Rhaenys Targaryenthe Queen Who Never Was

74 – 129 AC

Drache Meleys, the Red Queen

Vermählt Lord Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake

Eltern Aemon Targaryen

Passed over for the throne twice — once by her grandfather, once by the lords at Harrenhal — for the grave defect of her sex. She died at Rook's Rest at five-and-fifty, meeting two dragons alone, and no one who watched called her the lesser claimant again.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Viserys I.

77 n. A. E. – 129 n. A. E.Regierte 103–129 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 103–129 AC)

Drache Balerion (in seiner Jugend)

Vermählt Aemma Arryn, dann Alicent Hohenturm

Eltern Baelon · Alyssa

Der letzte Reiter Balerions des Schwarzen Schreckens und ein friedfertiger König, der über den goldenen Mittag der Dynastie herrschte. Sein Versäumnis, die Thronfolge zwischen seiner Tochter und seinen Söhnen zu klären, entfachte das Feuer, das folgte.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Daemonder Schurkenprinz

81 n. A. E. – 130 n. A. E.

Betitelt Prince of the City; King of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea; Prince consort

Drache Caraxes, der Blutwurm

Vermählt am Ende seine Nichte Rhaenyra

Eltern Baelon · Alyssa

Der Schurkenprinz, ruhelos und gefährlich, Reiter von Caraxes und Führer der Dunklen Schwester; Bruder des Königs und, am Ende, Gemahl seiner eigenen Nichte. Kein Mann im Reich war mit der Klinge mehr gefürchtet.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Aegon Targaryen

84 AC, died within the year

Eltern Baelon · Alyssa

The birth that killed his mother Alyssa, and a life that did not outlast the mourning. Baelon never wed again.

Quellen F&B

Aemma Arryn

82 – 105 AC

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Vermählt Viserys I

Eltern Daella Targaryen

Daella's daughter, wed at eleven, dead in the birthing bed at three-and-twenty by a decision the king made for her. Her one surviving child was Rhaenyra, whom the realm would learn to reckon with.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Alicent Hightower

88 – 133 AC

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Vermählt Viserys I

Ser Otto's daughter, who read to the Old King through his failing years and wed his heir's heir within two years of Aemma's grave being closed. Four children, one crown wrongly or rightly seized for her son, and a war named for a dance later, she died of the Winter Fever asking to see children the war had already spent.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Generation 9

The Seeds of the Dance

Laena Velaryon

92 – 120 AC

Drache Vhagar

Vermählt Daemon Targaryen

Eltern Rhaenys Targaryen

The Sea Snake's daughter, offered to King Viserys as a bride and passed over for Alicent, she claimed instead the oldest dragon alive and, in time, the most dangerous prince. She died of a childbed gone wrong at Driftmark; the tale that she rose from her deathbed to die beside Vhagar is precisely the sort her family favors, which does not make it false.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Laenor Velaryon

94 – 120 AC

Betitelt Ser

Drache Seasmoke

Vermählt Rhaenyra Targaryen

Eltern Rhaenys Targaryen

Rhaenys's son, wed to Rhaenyra to bind the two claims the Great Council had sundered, his affections engaged, notoriously, elsewhere. His friend Ser Qarl Correy put a blade in him at a fair in Spicetown over a quarrel no two accounts agree on; the three sons of his marriage bore his name, and the court wits observed that they bore little else of his.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Rhaenyradie Wonne des Reiches

97 n. A. E. – 130 n. A. E.Regierte umstritten, 129–130 n. A. E.

Betitelt Princess of Dragonstone; queen by her partisans' reckoning (129–130 AC)

Drache Syrax

Vermählt Laenor Velaryon, dann ihr Onkel Daemon

Eltern Viserys I. · Aemma Arryn

Von ihrem Vater zur Erbin ernannt und auf Drachenstein gekrönt, hielt sie Königsmund ein halbes Jahr lang während des Krieges, den man den Tanz der Drachen nennt. Die Aufzeichnungen streiten noch, ob man sie Königin nennen soll.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Baelon Targaryen

105 AC, a day only

Eltern Viserys I. · Aemma Arryn

The son cut from Aemma at his father's word, he outlived his mother by a single day. Prince Daemon's cup-jape about an heir for a day cost him the succession and fixed it upon Rhaenyra — no Targaryen ever moved history further by leaving it faster.

Quellen F&B

Aegon II.

107 n. A. E. – 131 n. A. E.Regierte 129–131 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 129–131 AC)

Drache Sunfyre der Goldene

Vermählt seine Schwester Helaena

Eltern Viserys I. · Alicent Hightower

Viserys' ältester Sohn, von den Grünen gegen den Anspruch seiner Schwester gekrönt; sein Krieg um den Thron brachte die Drachen fast zur Gänze an ihr Ende. Er gewann den Tanz und verlor die Zukunft.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Helaena

109 n. A. E. – 130 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Drache Dreamfyre

Vermählt ihr Bruder Aegon II.

Eltern Viserys I. · Alicent Hightower

Tochter Viserys' und Alicents, vermählt mit ihrem Bruder Aegon II. und Mutter seiner Erben; eine sanfte Träumerin, die die Grausamkeiten des Krieges zerbrachen.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Aemondder Einäugige

110 n. A. E. – 130 n. A. E.

Betitelt Prince Regent (briefly)

Drache Vhagar

Vermählt unwed; kept company with Alys Rivers

Eltern Viserys I. · Alicent Hightower

Der wildeste von Alicents Söhnen, der als Knabe die ungeheure Vhagar für sich beanspruchte und als Mann die Flusslande in Brand setzte. Er und Daemon fielen gemeinsam im Feuer über dem Gottesauge.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Daeron Targaryenthe Daring

114 – 130 AC

Drache Tessarion, the Blue Queen

Vermählt unwed

Eltern Viserys I. · Alicent Hightower

The gentlest of Alicent's sons, which the burning of Bitterbridge suggests was a low bar. He died at sixteen in the night chaos of Second Tumbleton, his body never surely identified among the burned, a detail that bred pretenders for a generation.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Baela Targaryen

b. 116 AC

Drache Moondancer

Vermählt Ser Alyn Velaryon, Lord of the Tides

Eltern Daemon · Laena Velaryon

Daemon's daughter by Laena Velaryon, who flew a half-grown dragon against Sunfyre to cover Dragonstone's escape and walked away from the wreck scarred and unrepentant. She wed the Sea Snake's heir and gave the regency councils no end of grief, all of it deserved.

Quellen F&B

Rhaena Targaryen

b. 116 AC

Drache Morning

Vermählt Ser Corwyn Corbray; Garmund Hightower

Eltern Daemon · Laena Velaryon

Baela's twin, born in Pentos, whose egg finally hatched after the Dance had killed nearly every other dragon — Morning, the last new hope of her kind. Six daughters by her second husband carried the blood into the Reach.

Quellen F&B

Generation 10

The Dance's Children and the Little Kings

Jacaerys VelaryonJace

114 – 130 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Drache Vermax

Vermählt betrothed to Baela Targaryen

Eltern Rhaenyra · Laenor Velaryon

Rhaenyra's heir, whose embassy won the North and the Vale for his mother while his uncles won only battles. He fell at the Gullet leading from the front, brown-haired like Ser Harwin Strong and brave like nobody's business — the maesters may draw their own conclusions, as they always have.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Lucerys VelaryonLuke

115 – 129 AC

Drache Arrax

Vermählt betrothed to Rhaena Targaryen

Eltern Rhaenyra · Laenor Velaryon

Sent to Storm's End as an envoy at fourteen and chased into the storm by his uncle on a dragon five times Arrax's size. His death was the war's point of no return; Aemond claimed he meant only to frighten the boy, and Vhagar was not consulted.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Joffrey Velaryon

117 – 130 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone (briefly)

Drache Tyraxes

Eltern Rhaenyra · Laenor Velaryon

Thirteen years old when King's Landing fell apart around him, he tried to fly a half-wild dragon not his own to save the others from the Dragonpit mob. He fell from Syrax's back over Flea Bottom; courage and sense ripen at different rates.

Quellen F&B

Visenya Targaryen

stillborn, 129 AC

Eltern Rhaenyra · Daemon

Born a moon too soon on Dragonstone, in the very hour her mother learned of her half-brother's coronation, and born dead and malformed. Rhaenyra laid the child at the greens' feet; by some accountings she was the Dance's first casualty, dead before the first banner rose.

Quellen F&B

Jaehaerys Targaryen

123 – 129 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Drache Shrykos (hatchling)

Eltern Aegon II. · Helaena

Six years old when the men called Blood and Cheese made his mother choose, then took his head regardless of her answer. Whatever else is said of the Dance, it was paid for in coin like this.

Quellen F&B

Jaehaera Targaryen

123 – 133 AC

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Drache Morghul (hatchling)

Vermählt Aegon III, her cousin

Eltern Aegon II. · Helaena

Simple, sweet, and married at ten to the boy whose mother her father had fed to a dragon — the peace of the realm resting on two traumatized children. She went from a window of Maegor's Holdfast like her mother before her, and whether she jumped or was helped remains one of the regency's uglier questions.

Quellen F&B

Maelor Targaryen

127 – 130 AC

Eltern Aegon II. · Helaena

The son his mother named to die and could not save by naming. Smuggled toward Oldtown, he was torn apart — or crushed, the accounts differ — by a mob at Bitterbridge at the age of three; the town paid for it later, which mended nothing.

Quellen F&B

Aegon III.der Drachenbann

120 n. A. E. – 157 n. A. E.Regierte 131–157 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 131–157 AC)

Drache Stormcloud (in der Kindheit verloren)

Vermählt Jaehaera, dann Daenaera Velaryon

Eltern Rhaenyra · Daemon

Sohn Rhaenyras und Daemons, der als von Alpträumen verfolgter Knabe den Thron bestieg, nachdem er mitansehen musste, wie seine Mutter von einem Drachen verschlungen wurde. Unter seiner Herrschaft schwanden die letzten Drachen dahin und starben.

Quellen F&B · TWOIAF

Viserys II.

122 n. A. E. – 172 n. A. E.Regierte 171–172 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 171–172 AC)

Vermählt Larra Rogare

Eltern Rhaenyra · Daemon

Jüngerer Sohn Rhaenyras und Daemons, die fähigste Hand, die drei Könige je hatten, der über Jahre in allem außer dem Namen herrschte, ehe er selbst für ein einziges Jahr die Krone trug.

Quellen TWOIAF · F&B

Generation 11

The Broken King's Line

Daeron I.der Junge Drache

143 n. A. E. – 161 n. A. E.Regierte 157–161 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 157–161 AC)

Vermählt unwed

Eltern Aegon III.

Ein Vierzehnjähriger, der Dorne mit Schwert und Feder eroberte — und es nicht halten konnte. Er starb mit achtzehn Jahren im dornischen Sand, seine Eroberung bereits im Zerfall.

Quellen TWOIAF · AGOT

Baelor I.der Selige

144 n. A. E. – 171 n. A. E.Regierte 161–171 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 161–171 AC); septon

Vermählt seine Schwester Daena (verstoßen)

Eltern Aegon III.

Ein Septon-König von berühmter Frömmigkeit, der barfuß nach Dorne wanderte, um Frieden zu schließen, und sich mit Fasten zugrunde richtete. Heilig und halb wahnsinnig, verstieß er seine Schwester-Gemahlin und widmete seine Tage dem Gebet.

Quellen TWOIAF · AGOT

Daena Targaryenthe Defiant

b. 145 AC

Vermählt Baelor I, her brother (in name only)

Eltern Aegon III.

Wife to a king who would not touch her and prisoner of the Maidenvault he built to prove it, she escaped its walls repeatedly and its purpose once, spectacularly. The son she bore in 170 AC she named Daemon, and he would cost the realm more than all her defiances together.

Quellen TWOIAF

Rhaena Targaryen

b. 147 AC

Betitelt Septa

Eltern Aegon III.

The middle sister of the Maidenvault, who answered captivity with piety and took vows as a septa upon her release. Of the three sisters she alone gave history no trouble, and history has repaid her with near-total silence.

Quellen TWOIAF

Elaena Targaryen

b. 150 AC

Vermählt Ossifer Plumm; Ronnel Penrose; Ser Michael Manwoody

Eltern Aegon III.

Youngest of the Maidenvault sisters, wed thrice for other people's convenience, she ran her second husband's counting-house, some say the realm's, and loved only Alyn Velaryon, to whom she bore two bastards. The cleverest financial mind of her generation spent it doing sums under other men's names.

Quellen TWOIAF · ASOS

Aegon IV.der Unwürdige

135 n. A. E. – 184 n. A. E.Regierte 172–184 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 172–184 AC)

Vermählt seine Schwester Naerys

Eltern Viserys II.

Gefräßig und lüstern, tat er seiner Schwester-Gemahlin Naerys Unrecht und legitimierte sterbend seine Bastarde — und säte damit die Saat eines Jahrhunderts der Rebellion.

Quellen TWOIAF · ASOS · TSS

Aemonder Drachenritter

136 n. A. E. – 183 n. A. E.

Betitelt Ser; Lord Commander of the Kingsguard

Vermählt none; his vows, and perhaps his heart, forbade it

Eltern Viserys II.

Der wahrhaftigste Ritter seiner Zeit, Lord Kommandant der Königsgarde und geschworener Champion seiner Schwester Naerys. Er starb, den König beschirmend, der ihn am wenigsten verdiente.

Quellen TWOIAF · AGOT · ASOS

Naerys

138 n. A. E. – 179 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Vermählt ihr Bruder Aegon IV.

Eltern Viserys II.

Schwester und widerwillige Gemahlin Aegons IV., fromm und zart, Mutter Daerons II.; ihr Name ist im Lied mit dem ihres Bruders, des Drachenritters, verknüpft.

Quellen TWOIAF · ASOS

Generation 12

The Good, His Sister, and the Great Bastards

Daeron II.der Gute

153 n. A. E. – 209 n. A. E.Regierte 184–209 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 184–209 AC)

Vermählt Myriah Martell

Eltern Aegon IV. · Naerys

Der Gute, der Dorne endlich durch Heirat statt durch Krieg ins Reich brachte. Das Gerücht, von seinem eigenen Vater verbreitet, raunte, er sei der Sohn des Drachenritters und kein wahrer Drache — eine Verleumdung, die die Schwarzfeuers zum Banner erheben sollten.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK · AGOT

Daenerys Targaryen

b. 172 AC

Betitelt Princess consort of Dorne

Vermählt Maron Martell, Prince of Dorne

Eltern Aegon IV. · Naerys

Her marriage in 187 AC sealed Dorne to the Iron Throne, whatever her heart had wanted — and the songs insist it wanted Daemon Blackfyre. She is said to have counseled mercy for Daemon's captive sons, proving grace survives even a political wedding.

Quellen TWOIAF · TSS

Daemon Schwarzfeuerder Schwarze Drache

170 n. A. E. – 196 n. A. E.

Betitelt Ser; pretender King of the Seven Kingdoms

Vermählt Rohanne von Tyrosh

Eltern Aegon IV. · Daena Targaryen

Bastardsohn Aegons IV., beschenkt mit dem Ahnenschwert Schwarzfeuer und auf dem Sterbebett seines Vaters legitimiert. Er erhob den schwarzen Drachen zur Rebellion und fiel mit seinen Zwillingssöhnen auf dem Rotgrasfeld.

Quellen TWOIAF · TSS · TMK

Aegor RiversBitterstahl

172 n. A. E. – 241 n. A. E.

Betitelt Ser; founder and captain-general of the Golden Company

Vermählt Calla Blackfyre (see the Blackfyre roll)

Eltern Aegon IV.

Aegons Bastard von einer Bracken und Blutrabes lebenslanger Feind. Nach dem Rotgrasfeld verbannt, gründete er die Goldene Kompanie und hielt die Sache der Schwarzfeuers für den Rest seiner Tage jenseits der Meerenge am Leben.

Quellen TWOIAF · TMK · ADWD

Brynden RiversBlutrabe

geb. 175 n. A. E.

Betitelt Hand of the King; Lord Commander of the Night's Watch

Vermählt none wed; Shiera Seastar shared his bed and refused his hand

Eltern Aegon IV.

Aegons Albino-Bastard von einer Schwarzholz — Zauberer, Spionagemeister und Hand, Führer der Dunklen Schwester. Mit der Zeit nahm er das Schwarz und verschwand jenseits der Mauer, und das Freie Volk erzählt noch seltsamere Geschichten von ihm.

Quellen TWOIAF · TMK · ADWD

Shiera Seastarthe Star of the Sea

b. between 178 and 184 AC; her end unrecorded

Vermählt none; she collected proposals as other women collect jewels

Eltern Aegon IV.

Last and loveliest of the Great Bastards, one eye green and one blue, learned in tongues and — the credulous add — in darker arts involving baths of blood. Bittersteel and Bloodraven both wanted her; she took the one as a lover and the other's war as an entertainment, and outfoxed history itself by escaping its notice.

Quellen TWOIAF · TMK

Generation 13

The Sons of Daeron the Good

Baelor TargaryenBreakspear

170 – 209 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone; Hand of the King

Vermählt Jena Dondarrion

Eltern Daeron II.

The finest man of his line, who won the Redgrass Field with a hammer-stroke and died at Ashford of his own brother's mace, defending a hedge knight in a trial of seven. Maekar's blow was accidental; the realm's loss was not, and every misery of the next fifty years may be traced to that cracked helm.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK

Aerys I.

geb. 172 n. A. E.Regierte 209–221 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 209–221 AC)

Vermählt Aelinor Penrose

Eltern Daeron II.

Belesen und unfruchtbar, mit Schriftrollen vertrauter als mit der Kunst des Regierens, überließ er das Regieren durch Dürre und Rebellion seiner Hand, Blutrabe. Er starb ohne Nachkommen.

Quellen TWOIAF · TMK

Rhaegel Targaryen

d. 215 AC

Vermählt Alys Arryn

Eltern Daeron II.

Gentle and mad in equal measure, given to dancing alone through the Red Keep unclothed, he was loved and pitied and never crowned. He choked on a lamprey pie at a feast, a death the family's enemies found funnier than his children did.

Quellen TWOIAF · TMK

Maekar I.

geb. 176 n. A. E.Regierte 221–233 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 221–233 AC)

Vermählt Dyanna Dayne

Eltern Daeron II.

Ein strenger und fähiger Krieger, viertgeboren und lange überschattet, der spät zum Thron kam und unter den Mauern einer rebellischen Burg starb. Vater des Unwahrscheinlichen Königs und eines Maesters, der sie alle überdauern sollte.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK · TSS

Generation 14

The Generation of the Great Spring Sickness

Valarr Targaryenthe Young Prince

183 – 209 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Vermählt Kiera of Tyrosh

Eltern Baelor Targaryen

Breakspear's heir, a promising shadow of a great father, carried off by the Great Spring Sickness within the year. His twin sons by Kiera were born dead or died in the cradle, and so Baelor's whole line went into the fire-pits of 209.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK

Matarys Targaryenthe Even Younger Prince

d. 209 AC

Eltern Baelor Targaryen

Baelor's second son, dead of the same plague in the same terrible spring as his brother. The epithet the court gave him was a jest; the Stranger, as usual, laughed last.

Quellen TWOIAF

Aelor Targaryen

d. 217 AC

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Vermählt Aelora Targaryen, his twin sister

Eltern Rhaegel Targaryen

Named heir upon his father's death, he died at his own sister-wife's hand in a mishap so strange the chronicles agree only on calling it strange. The Citadel's copies decline to particularize, which has never once prevented speculation.

Quellen TWOIAF

Aelora Targaryen

d. before 221 AC

Betitelt Princess of Dragonstone, heir to the Iron Throne

Vermählt Aelor Targaryen, her twin

Eltern Rhaegel Targaryen

Made heir after the accident that killed her twin at her own hands, she was set upon at a masked ball by three men remembered as the Rat, the Hawk, and the Pig, and her mind did not survive what her body did. She took her own life, and the crown passed on to Maekar's line.

Quellen TWOIAF

Daenora Targaryen

Vermählt Aerion Brightflame, her cousin

Eltern Rhaegel Targaryen

Rhaegel's younger daughter, wed to the family's monster and mother of the babe Maegor whom the Great Council of 233 declined to crown. Of her feelings on any of this the record preserves, characteristically, nothing.

Quellen TWOIAF

Daeron Targaryenthe Drunken

d. before 233 AC, of a pox

Vermählt Kiera of Tyrosh, widow of his cousin Valarr

Eltern Maekar I.

Maekar's eldest, who drank, he confessed, to drown the prophetic dreams — including one of a dragon falling dead at Ashford that came true enough to unsettle. He wed his dead cousin's widow, fathered a daughter, and died of a pox got from a camp follower before his father's crown could ever have burdened him.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK

Aerion TargaryenBrightflame; Aerion the Monstrous

c. 192? – 232 AC

Betitelt Prince of the blood

Vermählt Daenora Targaryen, his cousin

Eltern Maekar I.

He broke a puppeteer's fingers for staging a dragon's death, was exiled to Lys for worse, and ended by drinking wildfire in the certainty it would make him a dragon. It made him a corpse, resolving at a stroke a succession problem and a moral one.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK

AemonMaester der Nachtwache

geb. 198 n. A. E.

Betitelt Maester of the Citadel; sworn brother of the Night's Watch at Castle Black

Vermählt none; chain and cloak both forbid it

Eltern Maekar I.

Sohn Maekars, der seinen eigenen Anspruch beiseitelegte und die Kette eines Maesters nahm, um sein langes Leben auf der Mauer zu dienen, damit sein Bruder Aegon unangefochten herrschen konnte.

Diese Gabelungen nennen Tode, Enden und Wege, die in den Büchern noch nicht beschritten sind. Enthülle sie nur, wenn dir beide Wege bekannt sind — oder wenn du dich nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Quellen TWOIAF · AGOT · AFFC

Aegon V.der Unwahrscheinliche, „Ei“

geb. 200 n. A. E.Regierte 233–259 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 233–259 AC)

Vermählt Betha Blackwood

Eltern Maekar I.

Der vierte Sohn eines vierten Sohnes, der als Knappe eines fahrenden Ritters diente und gegen alle Erwartung auf den Thron kam — ein König, der das gemeine Volk liebte und gegen seine eigenen Lords zu dessen Gunsten Krieg führte. Er kam in Sommerhall im Feuer um, dem Traum nachjagend, Drachen zu erwecken.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK · ASOS

Daella Targaryen

Eltern Maekar I.

Elder of Maekar's two daughters, of whom the chronicles preserve a name and an existence. Egg spoke of his sisters with affection, which is more testimony than most princesses receive.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK

Rhae Targaryen

Eltern Maekar I.

Maekar's younger daughter, who — her brother once let slip — put a love potion in his drink as a girl. History records the prank and forgets the woman; the Citadel apologizes for its predecessors.

Quellen TWOIAF · THK

Generation 15

The Grandchildren of Maekar

Vaella Targaryen

b. 222 AC

Eltern Daeron Targaryen

Daeron's only child, sweet and simple-minded, passed over without debate by the Great Council of 233. She appears in history precisely once, to be set aside, and this entry is her whole monument.

Quellen TWOIAF

Maegor Targaryen

b. 232 AC; his fate unrecorded

Eltern Aerion Targaryen · Daenora Targaryen

An infant when the Great Council passed him over — the lords wanting no babe on the throne, and wanting Aerion's blood on it rather less. What became of the boy afterward no chronicle says, a silence certain pretender-fanciers have found roomy enough to build in.

Quellen TWOIAF

Duncander Kleine, Prinz der Libellen

gest. 259 n. A. E.

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone (renounced)

Vermählt Jenny von Altsteinen

Eltern Aegon V.

Erbe Aegons V., der sein Anrecht auf die Krone aus Liebe für Jenny von Altsteinen ablegte. Er starb mit seinem Vater in den Flammen von Sommerhall.

Quellen TWOIAF · ASOS

Jaehaerys II.

geb. 225 n. A. E.Regierte 259–262 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 259–262 AC)

Vermählt seine Schwester Shaera

Eltern Aegon V.

Ein zarter und kurzlebiger König, Sohn Aegons V., der seine Schwester Shaera heiratete und manche der Wunden linderte, die Sommerhall hinterlassen hatte. Aus seiner kurzen Herrschaft gingen die letzten Könige der Drachenlinie hervor.

Quellen TWOIAF · ASOS

Shaera Targaryen

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Vermählt Jaehaerys II, her brother

Eltern Aegon V.

Betrothed to Luthor Tyrell, heir to Highgarden, and having none of it, she eloped with her own brother at fourteen while their parents' backs were turned. Aegon the Unlikely had married for love and forbidden his children the same; they took, one by one, the precedent over the instruction.

Quellen TWOIAF

Daeron Targaryen

d. 251 AC

Vermählt betrothed to Olenna Redwyne; he declined to proceed

Eltern Aegon V.

He refused his Redwyne match — to the later Queen of Thorns' loudly professed relief — and kept instead the company of his sworn shield, Ser Jeremy Norridge. He died leading men against the rising of the outlaw styled the Rat, the Hawk, and the Pig, and left no issue.

Quellen TWOIAF

Rhaelle Targaryen

Vermählt Ormund Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End

Eltern Aegon V.

Sent to Storm's End as a cupbearer to soothe the fury of her brother Duncan's broken betrothal, she was wed to its lord and bore him Steffon. Through quiet Rhaelle, every Baratheon claim to the Iron Throne is a Targaryen claim wearing antlers.

Quellen TWOIAF · ASOS

Generation 16

The Mad King's Generation

Aerys II.der Irre König

244 n. A. E. – 283 n. A. E.Regierte 262–283 n. A. E.

Betitelt King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 262–283 AC)

Vermählt seine Schwester Rhaella

Eltern Jaehaerys II. · Shaera Targaryen

Dessen Herrschaft von heller Verheißung zu Grausamkeit und Feuer verdarb, bis sein eigener geschworener Schild ihn niederstreckte. Mit ihm endeten die drei Jahrhunderte der Dynastie auf dem Eisernen Thron.

Quellen TWOIAF · AGOT · ASOS

Rhaella

245 n. A. E. – 284 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of the Seven Kingdoms

Vermählt ihr Bruder Aerys II.

Eltern Jaehaerys II. · Shaera Targaryen

Schwester und Gemahlin Aerys', die seinen Wahnsinn ertrug und ihm drei lebende Kinder gebar. Sie starb auf Drachenstein, als sie dem letzten von ihnen das Leben schenkte, während das Reich den Usurpatoren anheimfiel.

Quellen TWOIAF · AGOT

Generation 17

The Last Dragons

RhaegarPrinz von Drachenstein

259 n. A. E. – 283 n. A. E.

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Vermählt Elia Martell von Dorne

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

Ein schwermütiger Harfner und Ritter ohnegleichen, geliebt vom Reich, von vielen für den besten König gehalten, den Westeros nie hatte. Seine Flucht mit Lyanna Stark entfachte den Krieg, der sein Haus stürzte, und er fiel unter Robert Baratheons Hammer am Trident.

Quellen AGOT · ACOK · ASOS · TWOIAF

Shaena Targaryen

stillborn, 267 AC

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

The first daughter of Aerys and Rhaella, born dead. With her began the procession of small coffins that the king would come to blame on every hand but the gods'.

Quellen TWOIAF

Daeron Targaryen

269 AC, half a year only

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

The second son, given half a year of the world. The king's suspicions had not yet curdled to cruelty; grief, that once, was still permitted to be only grief.

Quellen TWOIAF

Aegon Targaryen

272 – 273 AC

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

Born two moons too soon and gone within the year, between a stillbirth and a namesake who fared no better. The name Aegon has crowned five kings; it has buried far more boys.

Quellen TWOIAF

Jaehaerys Targaryen

274 AC, died within the year

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

His death the king laid first upon a wet nurse, whom he beheaded, and then upon his own mistress, whom he used worse. Thereafter Aerys kept to his queen alone at a septon's urging, and of that grim penance the realm got Viserys.

Quellen TWOIAF

Viserys III.der Bettelkönig

geb. 276 n. A. E.

Betitelt claimant King of the Seven Kingdoms, styled the Third of His Name

Vermählt unwed

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

Zweiter Sohn Aerys', ein Kind beim Fall der Dynastie, der jenseits der Meerenge floh, um die Krone seines Vaters und seine eigene Bitterkeit zu nähren, wobei er sich durch lange Jahre bettelnden Exils den rechtmäßigen König nannte.

Diese Gabelungen nennen Tode, Enden und Wege, die in den Büchern noch nicht beschritten sind. Enthülle sie nur, wenn dir beide Wege bekannt sind — oder wenn du dich nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Quellen AGOT · AGOT App.

Daenerysdie Sturmgeborene, Mutter der Drachen

geb. 284 n. A. E.

Betitelt Queen of Meereen; claimant Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, styled the First of Her Name

Drache Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion

Vermählt Khal Drogo; Hizdahr zo Loraq

Eltern Aerys II. · Rhaella

Letztes ehelich geborenes Kind Aerys' und Rhaellas, geboren auf Drachenstein inmitten des Sturms, der die Herrschaft ihres Hauses beendete, und in ihrer Mädchenzeit an den dothrakischen Khal Drogo jenseits der Meerenge verkauft.

Diese Gabelungen nennen Tode, Enden und Wege, die in den Büchern noch nicht beschritten sind. Enthülle sie nur, wenn dir beide Wege bekannt sind — oder wenn du dich nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Quellen AGOT · ACOK · ASOS · ADWD

Generation 18

The Dragon's Last Children

RhaenysTochter Rhaegars

geb. 280 n. A. E.

Eltern Rhaegar

Junge Tochter Rhaegars und Elia Martells von Dorne, ein Kind im Roten Bergfried, als Königsmund dem Lennister-Heer fiel.

Diese Gabelungen nennen Tode, Enden und Wege, die in den Büchern noch nicht beschritten sind. Enthülle sie nur, wenn dir beide Wege bekannt sind — oder wenn du dich nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Quellen AGOT · ACOK · TWOIAF

AegonSohn Rhaegars

geb. 281 n. A. E.

Betitelt Prince of Dragonstone

Eltern Rhaegar

Säugling-Sohn Rhaegars und Elias, benannt nach dem Eroberer und als Erbe des Eisernen Throns gefeiert, noch ein Wickelkind, als sein Vater fiel.

Diese Gabelungen nennen Tode, Enden und Wege, die in den Büchern noch nicht beschritten sind. Enthülle sie nur, wenn dir beide Wege bekannt sind — oder wenn du dich nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Quellen AGOT · ACOK · ADWD

Rhaego

stillborn, 298 AC

Eltern Daenerys

Diese Gabelungen nennen Tode, Enden und Wege, die in den Büchern noch nicht beschritten sind. Enthülle sie nur, wenn dir beide Wege bekannt sind — oder wenn du dich nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Quellen AGOT

Gestrichelte Karten kennzeichnen die Großen Bastarde und ihre Schwarzfeuer-Linie — geboren von Aegon dem Unwürdigen und auf seinem Sterbebett legitimiert. Namen, die hinter dem Schleier liegen, gehören zur gegenwärtigen Erzählung; enthülle sie nur, wenn du nicht fürchtest zu wissen.

Nebenlinien und Ableger

Jüngere Söhne und Töchter, deren Blut eigene Wege ging — manche gründeten Häuser eigenen Namens, manche schwanden zu einer Zeile in den Annalen, manche sind bis heute umstritten.

Was die Maester bestreiten

Wo die Aufzeichnungen streiten, sich widersprechen, oder verstummen, hält diese Chronik die Streitfragen fest, statt für dich zu entscheiden, was die Texte offenlassen.

  1. The paternity of Daeron II: Aegon IV on his deathbed hinted his heir was the Dragonknight's son, not his own. No proof was ever offered, the accusation flattering neither the accuser's honor nor his queen's, yet it armed Daemon Blackfyre's cause and five rebellions besides. The Citadel observes that Daeron's conduct was his mother's and his uncle's in every particular that mattered, whichever man supplied the seed.

  2. Whether Orys Baratheon was truly Lord Aerion's bastard, and every stag-crowned claim since therefore doubly dragon-blooded. Aegon the Conqueror neither owned nor denied it; his silence has kept the question alive for three hundred years.

  3. The paternity of Rhaenyra's three elder sons, brown of hair in a family of silver: Velaryon by law, Strong by rumor, and the rumor cost a tongue or two before it cost a war. Grand Maester Mellos held that hair proves little; Vaemond Velaryon held otherwise, briefly.

  4. Whether the babe presented to Robert Baratheon in a crimson cloak was Prince Aegon at all. The Golden Company now marches for a young man who says it was not; Lord Varys is curiously adjacent to every version of the tale, and the Citadel reserves judgment until a dragon does.

  5. The paternity of Viserys Plumm, got — the court japed — either by an ancient husband dead on his wedding night or by King Aegon IV, who was demonstrably alive. The Plumms of the westerlands and a certain sellsword captain in Meereen have dined on the ambiguity ever since.

  6. The claimants of the Great Council of 101 included, among the nine lesser candidates, descendants of Princess Saera by her Volantene patrons. Saera herself declined to press a claim, reportedly amused; her line's whereabouts today the Citadel cannot state.

  7. Why Lords Aelyx, Baelon, and Daemion each held Dragonstone in turn and died — the first two childless — the pre-Conquest records do not say, having largely burned with Valyria's other certainties. Where records are silent, maesters multiply.

  8. The outlaws styled the Rat, the Hawk, and the Pig appear twice in the annals a generation apart: assaulting Princess Aelora at a masked ball, and slain fighting Prince Daeron in 251 AC. Whether these were the same men grown old in infamy, sons trading on the style, or a scribe's contamination of one tale by another, the maesters dispute with more enthusiasm than evidence.

  9. What Brynden Rivers became beyond the Wall after 252 AC. The wildlings tell of a sorcerer in a hollow hill wearing weirwood pale and red; the Citadel files this among singers' inventions, though it files it carefully.

  10. What passed in the Red Mountains of Dorne in 283 AC, where Lord Eddard Stark found his sister dying and left three Kingsguard buried — knights who by every oath should have stood beside their king, or his heirs, and stood instead by a tower the smallfolk name Joy. The records are silent, Lord Eddard was silenter, and the Citadel merely notes that silence, too, is a kind of testimony.

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Ist Jon Schnee ein Targaryen?

Nach der Rechnung des Reiches nein — die Bücher stellen Jon als Eddard Starks Bastardsohn dar, und Lord Eddard nannte die Mutter nie. Leser streiten seit Langem für eine verborgene Abkunft von Lyanna Stark und Rhaegar Targaryen, doch die Romane haben es nicht bestätigt, und so hält die Chronik diese Lesart hinter dem Spoiler-Schild, statt sie als Tatsache zu nennen.

Wie sind Daenerys und Jon Schnee verwandt?

Im Ende der Fernsehserie wird Jon als Rhaegar Targaryens Sohn enthüllt, was Daenerys zu seiner Tante machte — Rhaegar und Daenerys sind Bruder und Schwester, Kinder des Aerys II. In den Büchern ist diese Enthüllung nicht geschehen; dort ist Jon Ned Starks Bastard, und jede Targaryen-Verwandtschaft zu Daenerys bleibt eine unbestätigte Lesart statt gesicherter Tatsache.

Wer waren die Gemahlinnen Aegons des Eroberers?

Aegon I. heiratete nach valyrischem Brauch beide seiner Schwestern: Visenya, die ältere, eine Kriegerin, die das Schwert Dunkle Schwester trug und Vhagar ritt; und Rhaenys, die jüngere und meistgeliebte, die Meraxes ritt. Seine Erben kamen durch beide — Maegor I. durch Visenya und König Aenys I. durch Rhaenys.

Woher stammt die Schwarzfeuer-Linie?

Die Schwarzfeuers stammen von Daemon Schwarzfeuer ab, einem Bastardsohn König Aegons IV. des Unwürdigen, der auf dem Sterbebett des Königs legitimiert wurde und das angestammte valyrische Schwert Schwarzfeuer erhielt. Seine Rebellion gegen seinen Halbbruder Daeron II. — die erste der Schwarzfeuer-Rebellionen — wurde auf dem Rotgrasfeld niedergeschlagen, doch die Sache überlebte ihn jenseits der Meerenge.