House Nymeros Martell, root and branch — 32 names across 8 generations, seated at Sunspear in Dorne. Each band below is a single generation, eldest first; the mono line beneath a name gives its parents, so the descent reads down the page. Dates follow the maesters, and where the songs outrun the records the chronicle hedges the legend as legend.
Styled Lord of the Sandship; styled Prince of Dorne after the Rhoynish fashion
Wed Nymeria of the Rhoynar
A petty lord of a salty spit of coast until he wed a refugee queen and woke the greatest match in Dornish history. He fell to the sword of Yorick Yronwood at the Third Battle of the Boneway, and it was his widow who fought on two years more to finish what they had begun.
Styled Princess of the Rhoynar; Princess of Dorne
Wed Mors Martell; later a Lord Uller of Hellholt; later Ser Davos Dayne of Starfall
She led ten thousand ships from the dying Rhoyne and burned them on Dornish sand so none might sail home again. She outlived three husbands and ruled unquestioned for near seven-and-twenty years; her heirs took her name before their own, and Dorne learned to weigh daughters and sons in the same scale.
Styled Princess of Dorne
Fat, blind, near bald, and eighty when the dragons came, she promised Aegon's sister a war without battles and kept her word. The Conqueror subdued six kingdoms; the toad's Dorne was not among them.
Styled Prince of Dorne
Parents Meria Martell
An old man already when his mother finally died, he chose peace over glory and sent his daughter to King's Landing bearing a private letter. Aegon read it, burned it, and never troubled Dorne again — the maesters would give much to know what it said.
Styled Princess of Dorne
Parents Nymor Martell
She rode into the Conqueror's own hall bearing terms of peace and the skull of the dragon Meraxes as a courtesy gift, which is the most Dornish diplomacy ever recorded. She won a full peace with Dorne's sovereignty intact.
Styled Prince of Dorne
He launched a great fleet against the stormlands in defiance of Jaehaerys, and three dragons met it upon the sea. The Fourth Dornish War lasted an afternoon, and no Dornishman set foot on land.
Styled Princess of Dorne
She took up the rule of Dorne after Morion's fleet fed the fishes, her kinship to him unrecorded — the Dornish keep their own histories and share them grudgingly. Her reign kept the peace the fleet had broken.
Styled Prince of Dorne
Courted by green and black alike when the Targaryens fell to dancing, he declined both with the observation that Dorne had danced with dragons before. Half the realm burned; Dorne did not.
Styled Princess of Dorne
Wed Drazenko Rogare of Lys (d. 135 AC)
Parents Qoren Martell
Princess at seventeen, she set the young lords of Dorne vying for her favor and wed a Lysene banker-prince at the height of the Lysene Spring. Her consort choked upon a rasher of bacon, which some accounts ascribe to the Faceless Men — an expensive way to kill a man of Lys.
Styled Prince of Dorne (a younger son)
Parents Qoren Martell
Younger brother to the New Nymeria, remembered chiefly for his displeasure — he and his sister Coryanne fumed alike at the favor Aliandra showed the Lord of the Tides when Oakenfist called at Sunspear. Beyond his temper, the annals of Sunspear preserve little of him.
Styled Princess of Dorne (a younger daughter)
Parents Qoren Martell
When Alyn Velaryon called at Sunspear it was her sister the princess who lavished attentions on him, to Coryanne's open fury — whether Oakenfist took what was offered or refused it is a matter on which the chronicles cheerfully contradict one another. He sailed away intact either way.
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed King Daeron II Targaryen (betrothed 161 AC; the wedding year the annals neglect to give)
Eldest daughter of the Prince of Dorne, wed to the future Daeron the Good to seal Baelor's peace. She gave the realm four sons — Baelor Breakspear among them — and gave the Blackfyre malcontents their favorite sneer, that Dorne ruled the Red Keep.
Styled Prince of Dorne
Wed Daenerys Targaryen (wed 187 AC)
He wed the king's sister and knelt not as a conquered man but as a bridegroom, bringing Dorne into the realm by pact where two hundred years of dragons and armies had failed. He built the Water Gardens for his Targaryen bride.
Styled Ruling Princess of Dorne
Wed A consort whose name is likewise lost to the record
Mother of Doran, Elia, and Oberyn, and fast friend to Lady Joanna Lannister, with whom she once schemed a double marriage of their children — Lord Tywin's refusal of it is a wound Dorne remembers. That Sunspear's own maesters have let her name go unwritten in the wider record is a small scandal of the Citadel.
Styled Knight of the Kingsguard
Wed None wed; a paramour, it is whispered, kept in defiance of his vows
Uncle to Prince Doran, he led ten thousand Dornish spears up the kingsroad for Rhaegar and died in the red mud of the Trident. A white cloak, Dornish habits — the order forgave him the paramour, being in no position to ask.
Styled Prince of Dorne, Lord of Sunspear
Wed Mellario of Norvos (parted from him and returned east)
Parents The Princess of Dorne
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Styled Princess of Dorne; Princess of Dragonstone by marriage
Wed Rhaegar Targaryen, Prince of Dragonstone
Parents The Princess of Dorne
Frail of body and gentle of temper, she gave the dragon prince two children and was repaid at Harrenhal with a crown of winter roses laid in another woman's lap. She died in the Sack of King's Landing beneath Ser Gregor Clegane, and Dorne has neither forgotten nor forgiven.
Styled Prince of Dorne
Wed Ellaria Sand (paramour)
Parents The Princess of Dorne
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Styled Princess of Dorne, heir to Sunspear
Parents Doran Martell
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Styled Prince of Dorne
Parents Doran Martell
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Styled Prince of Dorne
Wed Betrothed to Myrcella Baratheon
Parents Doran Martell
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Styled Daughter of the Prince of Dragonstone
Parents Elia Martell
Elia's dark-eyed daughter, who kept a small black kitten she named Balerion. What was done to her in the Sack of King's Landing, and by whom, is among the charges Dorne keeps sharpened.
Styled Son of the Prince of Dragonstone
Parents Elia Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Parents Oberyn Martell
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Dashed cards mark bastards and baseborn lines. Names shaded behind the veil belong to the present tale; unveil them only if you do not fear to know.
Younger sons and daughters whose blood struck out on its own — some founding houses of their own name, some withered to a line in the annals, some disputed to this day.
Styled Prince; Castellan of Sunspear
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
Where the records quarrel, contradict, or fall silent, this chronicle sets the arguments down rather than settling for you what the texts leave open.
The queen of Daeron II is written Myriah in some accounts and Mariah in others, including the Citadel's own; Sunspear has never troubled to settle the spelling for us.
Queen Nymeria wed thrice — Mors Martell, a Lord Uller of Hellholt, and Ser Davos Dayne of Starfall — yet the succession passed to her eldest daughter by Mors, not her son by Dayne, an early proof of Dornish law that ranks the eldest child regardless of sex or of which husband got them.
The line from Deria to Morion, and from Morion to Mara, is unrecorded; the Dornish keep their genealogies close, and the Citadel's copies are shamefully thin for the first century of Targaryen rule.
When Princess Aliandra died and who followed her is nowhere established in the surviving annals, leaving a gap of some forty years before the parents of Queen Myriah and Prince Maron, whose own names are likewise lost.
The very name of the late ruling Princess of Dorne, mother to Doran, Elia, and Oberyn, appears in no record available to this chronicle — as does that of her consort — an omission this archivist finds frankly embarrassing.
What was burned in Prince Nymor's letter to Aegon the Conqueror remains the realm's favorite riddle; those who claim to know its contents are, without exception, lying.
Whether Princess Elia's son Aegon truly died in the Sack of King's Landing is a matter the accepted histories consider closed and certain recent arrivals from the Free Cities consider very much open.
This tree gathers every named Nymeros Martell the novels and their histories record — kings and lords, daughters and bastards, cadet offshoots and all. The maesters count only what the texts preserve; where a name survives without its deeds, the chronicle says as much rather than inventing the rest.
Each band down the page is one generation, eldest first. Beneath a name, the mono line names that person's parents, so descent reads from the top down. Dashed cards mark bastards and baseborn lines; cards behind the veil hold fates from the present tale, revealed only if you choose to unveil them.
House Nymeros Martell holds Sunspear. The tree opens with the earliest forebears the records name — legendary where the singers outrun the maesters, firmer once true dates begin — and this chronicle marks the myths as myths, never dressing a song up as a certainty.
A good many. Contested parentage, missing generations, bynames left unexplained, and legends the singers embroider all appear under 'What the maesters dispute' at the foot of this page, where the arguments are set down without pretending to close what the books leave open.