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.
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Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Wed 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Wed Gaemon the Glorious, her brother
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Wed Daenys the Dreamer, his sister
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Wed Elaena Targaryen, his sister; they ruled together
Parents Gaemon Targaryen · Daenys Targaryen
He shared the lordship with his sister-wife, an arrangement later Targaryens would emulate with markedly less domestic tranquility.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lady of Dragonstone
Wed Aegon Targaryen, her brother
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Parents Aerys Targaryen
Second of the childless brothers. His tenure is a name in a list; history owes him nothing and has paid in full.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Dragonstone
Wed Lady Valaena Velaryon
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled Lady of Dragonstone
Wed 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Dragon Vhagar
Wed her brother Aegon I
Parents Aerion Targaryen · Valaena Velaryon
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 1–37 AC)
Dragon Balerion the Black Dread
Wed his sisters Visenya & Rhaenys
Parents Aerion Targaryen · Valaena Velaryon
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B · AGOT
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Dragon Meraxes
Wed her brother Aegon I
Parents Aerion Targaryen · Valaena Velaryon
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 37–42 AC)
Dragon Quicksilver
Wed Alyssa Velaryon
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 42–48 AC)
Dragon Balerion
Wed six wives, the Black Brides
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Dragon Dreamfyre
Wed Aegon the Uncrowned, her brother; Maegor I, her uncle; Androw Farman
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled claimant King of the Seven Kingdoms
Dragon Quicksilver
Wed Rhaena Targaryen, his sister
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Wed unwed
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 48–103 AC)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B · AGOT
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
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.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B
Parents Aenys I
The last child of Aenys and Alyssa, dead in infancy and remembered chiefly by completists. This chronicle is nothing if not complete.
Sources F&B
Dragon Balerion the Black Dread (claimed, unwisely)
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Styled Septa of Oldtown
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
Dragon Caraxes
Wed Jocelyn Baratheon
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Dragon Meleys
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.
Sources F&B
Styled Septa
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Styled Archmaester of the Citadel, ring, rod and mask of yellow gold
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Wed Lord Rodrik Arryn
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Dragon Meleys, the Red Queen
Wed Lord Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 103–129 AC)
Dragon Balerion (in his youth)
Wed Aemma Arryn, then Alicent Hightower
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Prince of the City; King of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea; Prince consort
Dragon Caraxes, the Blood Wyrm
Wed in time, his niece Rhaenyra
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
The birth that killed his mother Alyssa, and a life that did not outlast the mourning. Baelon never wed again.
Sources F&B
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed Viserys I
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Dragon Vhagar
Wed Daemon Targaryen
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Ser
Dragon Seasmoke
Wed Rhaenyra Targaryen
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Princess of Dragonstone; queen by her partisans' reckoning (129–130 AC)
Dragon Syrax
Wed Laenor Velaryon, then her uncle Daemon
Parents Viserys I · Aemma Arryn
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 129–131 AC)
Dragon Sunfyre the Golden
Wed his sister Helaena
Parents Viserys I · Alicent Hightower
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Dragon Dreamfyre
Wed her brother Aegon II
Parents Viserys I · Alicent Hightower
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Prince Regent (briefly)
Dragon Vhagar
Wed unwed; kept company with Alys Rivers
Parents Viserys I · Alicent Hightower
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Dragon Tessarion, the Blue Queen
Wed unwed
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Dragon Moondancer
Wed Ser Alyn Velaryon, Lord of the Tides
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Dragon Morning
Wed Ser Corwyn Corbray; Garmund Hightower
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
Dragon Vermax
Wed betrothed to Baela Targaryen
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Dragon Arrax
Wed betrothed to Rhaena Targaryen
Parents 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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled Prince of Dragonstone (briefly)
Dragon Tyraxes
Parents 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.
Sources F&B
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.
Sources F&B
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
Dragon Shrykos (hatchling)
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.
Sources F&B
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Dragon Morghul (hatchling)
Wed Aegon III, her cousin
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.
Sources F&B
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.
Sources F&B
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 131–157 AC)
Dragon Stormcloud (lost in boyhood)
Wed Jaehaera, then Daenaera Velaryon
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.
Sources F&B · TWOIAF
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 157–161 AC)
Wed unwed
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.
Sources TWOIAF · AGOT
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 161–171 AC); septon
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.
Sources TWOIAF · AGOT
Wed Baelor I, her brother (in name only)
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Septa
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Wed Ossifer Plumm; Ronnel Penrose; Ser Michael Manwoody
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 172–184 AC)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS · TSS
Styled Ser; Lord Commander of the Kingsguard
Wed none; his vows, and perhaps his heart, forbade it
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.
Sources TWOIAF · AGOT · ASOS
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
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.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 184–209 AC)
Wed Myriah Martell
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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK · AGOT
Styled Princess consort of Dorne
Wed Maron Martell, Prince of Dorne
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.
Sources TWOIAF · TSS
Styled Ser; pretender King of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed Rohanne of Tyrosh
Parents Aegon IV · Daena Targaryen
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.
Sources TWOIAF · TSS · TMK
Styled Ser; founder and captain-general of the Golden Company
Wed Calla Blackfyre (see the Blackfyre roll)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · TMK · ADWD
Styled Hand of the King; Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
Wed none wed; Shiera Seastar shared his bed and refused his hand
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.
Sources TWOIAF · TMK · ADWD
Wed none; she collected proposals as other women collect jewels
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · TMK
Styled Prince of Dragonstone; Hand of the King
Wed Jena Dondarrion
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 209–221 AC)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · TMK
Wed Alys Arryn
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · TMK
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 221–233 AC)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK · TSS
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
Wed Kiera of Tyrosh
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
Wed Aelora Targaryen, his twin sister
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Princess of Dragonstone, heir to the Iron Throne
Wed Aelor Targaryen, her twin
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Wed Aerion Brightflame, her cousin
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Wed Kiera of Tyrosh, widow of his cousin Valarr
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK
Styled Prince of the blood
Wed Daenora Targaryen, his cousin
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK
Styled Maester of the Citadel; sworn brother of the Night's Watch at Castle Black
Wed none; chain and cloak both forbid it
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.
Sources TWOIAF · AGOT · AFFC
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 233–259 AC)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK · ASOS
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · THK
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Prince of Dragonstone (renounced)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 259–262 AC)
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.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed Jaehaerys II, her brother
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Wed betrothed to Olenna Redwyne; he declined to proceed
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF
Wed Ormund Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End
Parents 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.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS
Styled King of the Seven Kingdoms (r. 262–283 AC)
Wed his sister Rhaella
Parents Jaehaerys II · Shaera Targaryen
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.
Sources TWOIAF · AGOT · ASOS
Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed her brother Aerys II
Parents Jaehaerys II · Shaera Targaryen
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.
Sources TWOIAF · AGOT
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
Wed Elia Martell of Dorne
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.
Sources AGOT · ACOK · ASOS · TWOIAF
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'.
Sources TWOIAF
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.
Sources TWOIAF
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.
Sources TWOIAF
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.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled claimant King of the Seven Kingdoms, styled the Third of His Name
Wed unwed
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.
Sources AGOT · AGOT App.
Styled Queen of Meereen; claimant Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, styled the First of Her Name
Dragon Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion
Wed Khal Drogo; Hizdahr zo Loraq
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.
Sources AGOT · ACOK · ASOS · ADWD
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.
Sources AGOT · ACOK · TWOIAF
Styled Prince of Dragonstone
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.
Sources AGOT · ACOK · ADWD
Parents Daenerys
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.
Sources AGOT
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.
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 Lord of Storm's End; first Hand of the King
Wed Argella Durrandon
Rumored bastard of Lord Aerion and thus half-brother to the Conqueror, he slew the last Storm King, wed his daughter, and took the dead man's words, sigil, and seat for a house of his own. Aegon never confirmed the rumor and never punished it, which most maesters read as confirmation with better manners.
Sources TWOIAF · F&B · AGOT App.
Styled Lord Plumm
Parents Elaena Targaryen
Elaena's son of record by old Lord Ossifer Plumm, who — the japes insist — died of the sight of his bride on the wedding night, leaving the arithmetic of conception to King Aegon IV. The brown-skinned sellsword Ben Plumm of the Second Sons claims descent, and claims his drop of dragon blood soothes dragons; the dragons have not yet contradicted him.
Sources TWOIAF · ASOS · ADWD
Parents Elaena Targaryen
Elaena's son by Alyn Velaryon, the great love she was never permitted to marry. The Oakenfist's bastards were raised in comfort and left small mark on the chronicles, which by this family's standard is a blessing.
Sources TWOIAF
Parents Elaena Targaryen
Twin to Jon, daughter of Elaena and Alyn Velaryon. The record preserves her name and parentage and nothing further; the Citadel notes the debt and cannot pay it.
Sources TWOIAF
Styled Lord of Storm's End
Wed Cassana Estermont
Parents Rhaelle Targaryen
Rhaelle's son and Aerys's cousin, drowned with his lady in Shipbreaker Bay while his boys watched from the castle walls, returning from a fruitless errand to find their king a bride of old Valyrian blood. His son Robert would press the Targaryen blood in his veins as a claim while breaking the Targaryen line that gave it — history enjoys a paradox.
Sources AGOT · ACOK · TWOIAF
The legitimized line of Daemon Blackfyre, five rebellions' worth of pretenders across five generations, extinguished in the male line — Maester Aemon's careful phrase — with Maelys the Monstrous on the Stepstones in 260 AC. Their full roll, red grass and golden skulls and all, is chronicled apart; see the Blackfyre tree.
Sources TWOIAF · TMK · ADWD
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.