House Targaryen, root and branch — from Aegon the Conqueror and his sister-queens to the last dragons of the age. Each band is one generation; the mono line beneath a name gives its parents, so the descent reads down the page. Regnal years follow the maesters.
Dragon Balerion the Black Dread
Wed his sisters Visenya & Rhaenys
With his sisters and three dragons he forged the Seven Kingdoms into one and raised the Iron Throne from the swords of his fallen foes. Six kingdoms he took by fire; Dorne alone defied him.
Dragon Vhagar
Wed her brother Aegon I
Elder sister and first wife to Aegon, a warrior who bore the Valyrian blade Dark Sister and founded the Kingsguard. The maesters name her the sterner of the Conqueror's queens.
Dragon Meraxes
Wed her brother Aegon I
Younger sister and second wife to Aegon, most beloved of the three and patron of singers. She and Meraxes were lost over Dorne when a scorpion bolt took her dragon from the sky.
Dragon Quicksilver
Wed Alyssa Velaryon
Parents Aegon I · Rhaenys
Aegon's gentle son by Rhaenys, ill-suited to a realm that still smelled of dragonfire. His short reign was troubled by rebellion and the Faith's growing fury.
Dragon Balerion
Wed six wives, the Black Brides
Parents Aegon I · Visenya
Aegon's son by Visenya, called the Cruel for good cause — he warred on the Faith Militant and took six wives to no living issue. He was found dead upon the Iron Throne itself, its blades in his flesh.
Dragon Vermithor
Wed his sister Alysanne
Parents Aenys I
The Conciliator, called the Old King, who ruled fifty-five years — longer than any Targaryen — and gave the realm law, roads, and peace with the Faith. The Citadel rates him the greatest of his line.
Dragon Silverwing
Wed her brother Jaehaerys I
Parents Aenys I
The Good Queen, sister and wife to Jaehaerys, beloved for her wisdom and her care of the smallfolk. She flew Silverwing to the Wall and won small mercies that kings had long denied.
Dragon Vhagar
Wed his sister Alyssa
Parents Jaehaerys I · Alysanne
Called the Brave, second son of Jaehaerys and Alysanne and rider of old Vhagar, named heir after his brother Aemon died. A burst belly took him before he could inherit, and the succession passed uneasily on.
Wed her brother Baelon
Parents Jaehaerys I · Alysanne
Daughter of Jaehaerys and Alysanne, wed to her brother Baelon and mother to Viserys and Daemon. She died young, and her passing grieved the Old King sorely.
Dragon Balerion (in his youth)
Wed Aemma Arryn, then Alicent Hightower
Parents Baelon · Alyssa
The last rider of Balerion the Black Dread and a peaceable king who presided over the dynasty's golden noon. His failure to settle the succession between his daughter and his sons lit the fire that followed.
Dragon Caraxes, the Blood Wyrm
Wed in time, his niece Rhaenyra
Parents Baelon · Alyssa
The Rogue Prince, restless and dangerous, rider of Caraxes and wielder of Dark Sister; brother to the king and, at the last, husband to his own niece. No man in the realm was more feared with a blade.
Dragon Syrax
Wed Laenor Velaryon, then her uncle Daemon
Parents Viserys I
Named heir by her father and crowned on Dragonstone, she held King's Landing for half a year in the war men call the Dance of the Dragons. The ledgers still quarrel over whether to name her a queen.
Dragon Sunfyre the Golden
Wed his sister Helaena
Parents Viserys I
Viserys's eldest son, crowned by the greens against his sister's claim; his war for the throne all but ended the dragons. He won the Dance and lost the future.
Dragon Vhagar
Parents Viserys I
Fiercest of Alicent's sons, who claimed the monstrous Vhagar as a boy and burned the riverlands as a man. He and Daemon fell together in fire above the Gods Eye.
Dragon Dreamfyre
Wed her brother Aegon II
Parents Viserys I
Daughter of Viserys and Alicent, wed to her brother Aegon II and mother of his heirs; a gentle dreamer whom the war's cruelties broke.
Dragon Stormcloud (lost in boyhood)
Wed Jaehaera, then Daenaera Velaryon
Parents Rhaenyra · Daemon
Son of Rhaenyra and Daemon, who came to the throne a haunted boy after watching his mother devoured by a dragon. In his reign the last dragons dwindled and died.
Wed Larra Rogare
Parents Rhaenyra · Daemon
Younger son of Rhaenyra and Daemon, the ablest Hand three kings ever had, who ruled in all but name for years before wearing the crown himself for a single year.
Parents Aegon III
A boy of fourteen who conquered Dorne with sword and pen — and could not hold it. He died in the Dornish sands at eighteen, his conquest already unravelling.
Wed his sister Daena (set aside)
Parents Aegon III
A septon-king of famous piety who walked barefoot to Dorne to make peace and wasted himself with fasting. Holy and half-mad, he set aside his sister-wife and gave his days to prayer.
Wed his sister Naerys
Parents Viserys II
Gluttonous and lecherous, he wronged his sister-wife Naerys and, dying, legitimized his bastards — sowing the seeds of a century of rebellion.
Wed her brother Aegon IV
Parents Viserys II
Sister and unwilling wife to Aegon IV, pious and frail, mother of Daeron II; her name is bound in song to her brother the Dragonknight.
Parents Viserys II
The truest knight of his age, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard and sworn champion of his sister Naerys. He died shielding the king who deserved him least.
Wed Myriah Martell
Parents Aegon IV · Naerys
The Good, who brought Dorne into the realm at last by marriage rather than by war. Rumor, spread by his own father, whispered he was the Dragonknight's son and no true dragon — a slander the Blackfyres would raise as a banner.
Wed Rohanne of Tyrosh
Parents Aegon IV
Bastard son of Aegon IV, gifted the ancestral sword Blackfyre and legitimized on his father's deathbed. He raised the black dragon in rebellion and fell with his twin sons at the Redgrass Field.
Parents Aegon IV
Aegon's albino bastard by a Blackwood — sorcerer, spymaster, and Hand, wielder of Dark Sister. In time he took the black and vanished beyond the Wall, and the free folk tell queerer tales of him still.
Parents Aegon IV
Aegon's bastard by a Bracken and Bloodraven's lifelong foe. Exiled after the Redgrass Field, he founded the Golden Company and kept the Blackfyre cause alive across the narrow sea for the rest of his days.
Wed Aelinor Penrose
Parents Daeron II
Bookish and barren, more at home with scrolls than statecraft, he left the ruling to his Hand, Bloodraven, through drought and rebellion. He died without issue.
Wed Dyanna Dayne
Parents Daeron II
A stern and able warrior, fourth-born and long overshadowed, who came late to the throne and died beneath the walls of a rebel castle. Father of the Unlikely king and of a maester who would outlast them all.
Wed Betha Blackwood
Parents Maekar I
A fourth son's fourth son who squired for a hedge knight and came to the throne against all odds — a king who loved the smallfolk and warred against his own lords for their sake. He perished in fire at Summerhall, chasing the dream of waking dragons.
Wed Jenny of Oldstones
Parents Aegon V
Heir to Aegon V, who cast aside his crown-right to wed Jenny of Oldstones for love. He died with his father in the flames of Summerhall.
Parents Maekar I
Son of Maekar who set aside his own claim and took a maester's chain, serving out his long life at the Wall so his brother Aegon might rule unchallenged.
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.
Wed his sister Shaera
Parents Aegon V
A frail and short-lived king, son of Aegon V, who wed his sister Shaera and mended some of the wounds Summerhall had left. From his brief reign came the last kings of the dragon's line.
Wed his sister Rhaella
Parents Jaehaerys II
Whose reign curdled from bright promise into cruelty and fire until his own sworn shield cut him down. With him the dynasty's three centuries on the Iron Throne came to an end.
Wed her brother Aerys II
Parents Jaehaerys II
Sister and wife to Aerys, who endured his madness and bore him three living children. She died on Dragonstone giving life to the last of them as the realm fell to the usurpers.
Wed Elia Martell of Dorne
Parents Aerys II · Rhaella
A melancholy harper and peerless knight beloved by the realm, thought by many the finest king Westeros never had. His flight with Lyanna Stark lit the war that toppled his house, and he fell to Robert Baratheon's hammer on the Trident.
Parents Aerys II · Rhaella
Second son of Aerys, a boy when the dynasty fell, who fled across the narrow sea to nurse his father's crown and his own bitterness, styling himself the rightful king through long years of beggared exile.
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.
Parents Aerys II · Rhaella
Last trueborn child of Aerys and Rhaella, born on Dragonstone amid the storm that ended her house's reign, and sold in girlhood to the Dothraki khal Drogo beyond the narrow sea.
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.
Parents Rhaegar
Young daughter of Rhaegar and Elia Martell of Dorne, a child in the Red Keep when King's Landing fell to the Lannister host.
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.
Parents Rhaegar
Infant son of Rhaegar and Elia, named for the Conqueror and hailed as heir to the Iron Throne, still a babe in arms at his father's fall.
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.
Parents Eddard Stark — by the realm's count
Lord Eddard Stark returned from the war with a bastard son, named him Jon Snow, and raised him at Winterfell among his trueborn children — his mother, by the realm's count, the one secret the honorable lord would never explain.
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.
Dashed cards mark the Great Bastards and their Blackfyre line — born of Aegon the Unworthy and legitimized on his deathbed. Names shaded behind the veil belong to the present tale; unveil them only if you do not fear to know.
By the count of the realm, no — the books present Jon as Eddard Stark's bastard son, and Lord Eddard never named the mother. Readers have long argued for a hidden parentage of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, but the novels have not confirmed it, so the chronicle keeps that reading behind the spoiler veil rather than stating it as fact.
In the television ending, Jon is revealed as Rhaegar Targaryen's son, which would make Daenerys his aunt — Rhaegar and Daenerys being brother and sister, children of Aerys II. In the books that revelation has not happened; there Jon is Ned Stark's bastard, and any Targaryen kinship to Daenerys remains an unconfirmed reading rather than established fact.
Aegon I married both of his sisters in the Valyrian custom: Visenya, the elder, a warrior who bore the sword Dark Sister and rode Vhagar; and Rhaenys, the younger and best-beloved, who rode Meraxes. His heirs came through both — Maegor I through Visenya, and King Aenys I through Rhaenys.
The Blackfyres descend from Daemon Blackfyre, a bastard son of King Aegon IV the Unworthy who was legitimized on the king's deathbed and given the ancestral Valyrian sword Blackfyre. His rebellion against his half-brother Daeron II — the first of the Blackfyre Rebellions — was crushed at the Redgrass Field, but the cause outlived him across the narrow sea.