Viserys II, Aegon, Aemon and Naerys

Aegon was the eldest son of Prince Viserys Targaryen and his wife, Larra Rogare. He was born during the third month of the year 135 BC in King's Landing, less than two weeks after his aunt, Princess Rhaena Targaryen, first rode her dragon, Morning. Aegon grew up during the reign of his uncle, King Aegon III, from whom he inherited his name. Septon Bernard anointed him with the seven oils of the royal sept, and the city bells rang in celebration of his birth, and, following custom, a dragon egg was placed in his cradle. His grandfather, Lysander Rogare, even declared a feast day in Lys in his honor. [3]

In 139 BC, his mother Larra returned to her homeland, Lys, where she died in 145 BC.[7][8] In 153 BC, Viserys married Aegon to his sister, Princess Naerys, with the blessing of Aegon III.[9] The marriage was unhappy. Naerys had a better relationship with her second brother, Prince Aemon, as he knew how to make her laugh and had some of the piety she possessed, while Aegon did not. When Aegon and Naerys married in the early months of 153 BC, Aemon argued with Aegon at the wedding feast, and Naerys wept during the repose. Aegon's first child with Naerys, Prince Daeron, was born on the last day of 153 BC. After Daeron's birth, Naerys begged Aegon to live from then on only as brother and sister, instead of husband and wife,[10] and even begged him to release her from her marriage vows so that she could become a septa.[11] Aegon refused and insisted that she fulfill her "duties as a wife" for the rest of her life.[10]

As a young prince, Aegon accompanied his cousin, King Daeron "the Young Dragon", in the conquest of Dorne, as did Aegon's younger brother, Prince Aemon "the Dragonknight", who joined the Kingsguard. After the submission of Sunspear, Aegon was tasked by King Daeron I with escorting the Dornish noble hostages to King's Landing. [2] One of these hostages, Lady Casse

Aegon began his reign young, vigorous, robust, and handsome, but ended old, corrupt, and morbidly obese. In the end, he was bloated and fat. His eyes were almost lost in the fat of his face, his legs too weak to support his belly. He had a small mouth and a large beard, worn in an attempt to cover the fat of his neck and face. [6] On his coins, he was depicted with a beard. [5]

Aegon coveted the Iron Throne as a boy. As a prince, he was handsome and skilled with spear and sword. He loved hunting, falconry, and dancing. At court, he was the most brilliant prince, dazzling the lords with his intelligence. However, he had one great flaw: he could not govern himself. His desires, gluttony, and passions dominated him. [2]

Aegon dressed in silk and satin, bright and rich, and wore rings and chains of gold and precious stones. His crown was of red gold, huge and heavy, each of its points a dragon's head with eyes of precious stones. [6]

Reign 172 – 184 BC [1] Full name: Aegon Targaryen, the Fourth of His Name Titles King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men Lord of the Seven Kingdoms Protector of the Kingdom Prince of Dragonstone [2] Predecessor Viserys II Targaryen [1] Heir Daeron II Targaryen [2] Successor Daeron II Targaryen [1] Personal information Alias ​​Aegon the Unworthy [1] The 3rd moon of 135 BC [3] is born Porto Real [3] He died early in 184 BC (aged 49) [2] King's Landing Valyrian Race Culture of the Crown Lands Family House Targaryen Dynasty [1] Queen Naerys Targaryen [1] Lovers Nine lovers: Falena Stokeworth [2] Megette [2] Cassella Vaith [2] Bellegere Otherys [2] Barba Bracken [2] Melissa Blackwood [2] Bethany Bracken [2] Jeyne Lothston [2] Serenei de Lys [2]

Others: Daena Targaryen [2] Elaena Targaryen (rumor) [4] Daughters of Lord Butterwell (rumor) [5] At least nine hundred others (claimed by Aegon) [2] Issue Legitimate children: Daeron II Targaryen (disputed) [1] Unnamed twins [4] Daenerys Targaryen [2] Stillborn son (Daenerys' twin) [2] Unnamed child [2]

Bastards: Daemon I Blackfyre [2] Alysanne [2] Lily [2] Willow [2] Rosey [2] Bellenora Otherys (disputed) [2] Narha Otherys (disputed) [2] Balerion Otherys (disputed) [2] Aegor Rivers [2] Mya Rivers [2] Gwenys Rivers [2] Brynden Rivers [2] Shiera Seastar [2]

Rumors about children: Viserys Plumm [4] Bastards of Lord Butterwell's daughters [5] Jeyne Lothston [2] Father Viserys II Targaryen [3] Mother Larra Rogare [3]

Titles Princess Queen Loyalty to House Targaryen Culture of the Crown Lands Born 138 BC [1] Porto Real [2] Died 179 – 184 BC [3] Porto Real [2] Father Viserys II Targaryen Mother Larra Rogare Spouse of Aegon IV Targaryen Aemon Targaryen lover (rumor) [4] Issue Daeron II Targaryen Unnamed twins (died shortly after birth) [5] Daenerys Targaryen Stillborn son (Daenerys' twin) [6] Unnamed child (died with Naerys during childbirth) [6]

Born in 138 AC [1] in King's Landing, [2] Naerys was the only daughter and youngest child of King Viserys II Targaryen and Larra Rogare of Lys. Her mother, who never felt happy or part of the court, abandoned her husband and children and returned to her native Lys [1] in 139 BC, [8] a year after Naerys's birth. [1] According to semi-canonical sources, she nearly died in infancy and was sickly for most of her life, finding most physical activities too tiring. She was even little and was painfully thin, almost emaciated. [7] Naerys loved music and poetry, played the harp very well, and enjoyed sewing and embroidery. She was also devout in her faith and often found solace in the pages of The Seven-Pointed Star. [7] She would have become a septa if her father had allowed it. [1]

Naerys loved Prince Aemon more than either of her two brothers, for he knew how to make her laugh. Aemon was also more like Naerys in character, whereas Prince Aegon was not. However, in 153 BC, Naerys married Aegon at her father's behest, with the blessing of her brother, King Aegon III. Singers like to claim that both Aemon and Naerys wept during the ceremony, but the truth is different: it is known that Aemon argued with Aegon during the banquet, and Naerys wept while lying in bed, not during the wedding itself. [1] Prince Aemon joined the Kingsguard soon after the wedding, at the age of seventeen. [4]

Appearance and personality See also: Images of Naerys Targaryen Naerys had the typical Targaryen appearance, a fine and delicate beauty, almost otherworldly. [7] She was slender and petite, [1] and even so little that she was painfully thin, almost emaciated. [7] He had very large eyes of a deep violet hue, to which singers paid homage in songs, framed by light eyelashes. [1] She had skin as fine as porcelain, [7] so pale that it seemed almost translucent. [1] Naerys bore a certain resemblance to his descendant Daenerys Targaryen, although he lacked Daenerys' strength. [7]

Naerys dressed well, but simply, and rarely wore her crown or any other jewelry. Although she had the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, she often pinned it up under a hairnet or hid it under a hood. [7]

Naerys was pious, kind, and frail. [6] She loved the Seven as much as she loved her brother Aemon, if not more, [1] and often found solace in reading The Seven-Pointed Star. [7]

Aliases The Dragon Knight The Knight of Tears Titles Prince To be Lord Commander of the Royal Guard Alliances House Targaryen Royal Guard Culture of the Crown Lands Born 136 BC [1] Red Keep, King's Landing [2] Died 178 – 183 BC [3] Father Viserys II Targaryen Mother Larra Rogare Lover Naerys Targaryen (rumor) [4] Issue Daeron II Targaryen (rumored)

Aemon was born to Prince Viserys Targaryen and Lady Larra Rogare on the eve of Smith's Day in 136 BC. A dragon egg was placed in his crib. [2] Everyone rejoiced at his birth, except his older brother, Aegon, who was found by his mother striking the newborn Aemon with Aemon's egg. [2]

Aemon was inseparable from his sister Naerys when they were young. [7] Stories tell of Aemon's doomed love for his sister. [8] Supposedly, Aemon and Naerys loved each other. [9] [10] According to the singers, both Aemon and Naerys wept on the day Naerys married Aegon in 153 BC, although historians report that Naerys only wept during the wedding repose, while Aemon argued with Aegon at the wedding feast. [1] Aemon became so skilled in lists and with the sword that he was considered worthy to wield the Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister. [1] Shortly after the marriage of Naerys and Aegon, [11] Aemon joined the Kingsguard, taking his vows at the age of seventeen during the reign of his uncle, King Aegon III Targaryen. [1] [4] [12] During his life, Aemon served under five kings: his uncle Aegon III, his cousins ​​Daeron I and Baelor I, his father Viserys II and, lastly, his brother Aegon IV.

Aemon once fought against Lord Cregan Stark of Winterfell and stated that he had never faced a better swordsman. [6]

Hand of the King Finally, [N 2] Viserys served as Hand of the King during the final years of Aegon III Targaryen's reign. They skillfully dealt with suitors claiming to be Prince Daeron the Bold. A reluctant Aegon was convinced by Viserys that they needed to bring dragons back to restore the authority of House Targaryen. Nine wizards were then summoned from Essos, but their efforts to hatch dragon eggs failed. [7] Viserys' efforts to help his brother rule were ultimately hampered by the Broken King's disinterest in gaining the support of his subjects. [14]

After the death of Aegon III, Viserys remained Hand of the King during the reign of Daeron I Targaryen, his eldest nephew; Viserys did not insist on a regency. Daeron, the Young Dragon, achieved glory through his conquest of Dorne. After Daeron was killed by rebellious Dornishmen while gathering under a banner of peace,[16] Viserys ordered the Dornish hostages in King's Landing to be taken to the dungeon to await hanging.[17] Viserys remained Hand of the King for the next king, his younger nephew, Baelor I Targaryen, whose first act was to pardon the Dornish hostages in the capital.[17] Viserys shrewdly managed the kingdom during King Baelor's barefoot journey to Sunspear to make peace with Dorne. [17] Viserys objected when the pious Baelor dissolved his marriage to his sister, Daena Targaryen, and imprisoned her in the Maiden's Cave with her younger sisters, Rhaena and Elaena. [17] Rumors circulated that, to avoid embarrassment to the kingdom, Viserys used his position as Hand of the King to order the poisoning of a stonemason whom Baelor had appointed as High Septon.

At the beginning of the reign of Aegon III, Viserys's older brother, it became public knowledge in Westeros that Viserys had survived. He was rescued by Lord Alyn Velaryon in 134 BC and, after a huge ransom was paid to the merchant princes of Lys, Viserys returned to King's Landing with Alyn Oakenfist. Aegon never forgave himself for abandoning his brother during the Battle of the Gorge, and therefore Viserys's return was the only true joy he had in his reign. For the rest of Aegon's life, Viserys was the only person Aegon fully trusted. [7]

Viserys arrived in King's Landing with his new wife, Larra Rogare, and several of his relatives. During the Lysene Spring, the ambitious Rogare family became embroiled in the conflicts of Aegon III's regency. Although the Rogares in the Red Keep were seemingly guilty of some crimes, their rivals in King's Landing blamed them for many more. In 135 BC, Lord Thaddeus Rowan was tortured in an attempt to find evidence against the Rogares, and Ser Marston Waters, the Hand of the King, sent men to capture Larra after arresting her brothers. Aegon and Viserys, however, refused to hand over Larra and defiantly guarded her in Maegor's Holdfast, in what would later become known as the secret siege. Eventually, the case against the Rogares collapsed. [7][13]

Viserys and Larra had three sons: Aegon (born in 135 BC), Aemon (born in 136 BC), and Naerys (born in 138 BC). Larra never felt happy at court,[7][14] and in 139 BC,[15] she left Viserys and his three sons and returned to Lys, an experience that made the charming Viserys more severe. Viserys arranged for Aegon and Naerys to marry in 153 BC, with the blessing of Aegon III, while Aemon became a knight of the Kingsguard.[7][14]

Hand of the King Finally, [N 2] Viserys served as Hand of the King during the final years of Aegon III Targaryen's reign. They skillfully dealt with suitors, you claim.

Dance of the Dragons At the end of 129 AC, at the request of his half-brother, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, Viserys and his older brother, Aegon, were sent to Essos aboard the Gay Abandon to be raised by a prince of Pentos until their mother, Rhaenyra, secured the Iron Throne. However, the fleet of the Kingdom of the Three Daughters, allied with the Greens and Aegon II Targaryen, captured the Gay Abandon during the voyage. Aegon escaped riding his dragon, Stormcloud, but Viserys possessed only a dragon egg. Staying behind, the cunning Viserys hid his egg and disguised himself as a common cabin boy, but his identity was revealed by one of the crew. A Tyroshi captain took Viserys to Sharako Lohar, the admiral of the Triarchy. Viserys' fate during the remainder of the Dance of the Dragons remained unknown to his family, who believed he had died in battle. [10]

Viserys ended up in Lys, at the manor of Bambarro Bazanne, in 132 BC. After the magistrate's death, burdened with debt, his mansion and properties were confiscated by creditors. All of Bazanne's assets, including the captive Viserys, passed into the custody of the wealthy Lysandro Rogare, of the Rogare family, whose bank at the time was as powerful as the Iron Bank of Braavos. Initially, Lysandro considered employing him as a courtier due to his striking beauty, but quickly [N 1] changed his mind when the prince revealed his identity. Viserys married the family's youngest daughter, Larra, despite her being seven years older than him.

Born in 122 AC, Viserys was the second son of his father, Prince Daemon Targaryen, and the fifth son of his mother, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. According to Targaryen tradition, a dragon egg was placed in its cradle. [1] Viserys was named after his grandfather, King Viserys I Targaryen. [1]

Viserys had four older brothers; three half-brothers from his mother's first marriage, Jacaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey Velaryon, and a blood brother, Aegon. He also had two older half-sisters, Baela and Rhaena Targaryen, from his father's second marriage. [9]

Viserys lived with his mother, father, brothers and sisters at Dragonstone, his mother's seat as Princess of Dragonstone. When his grandfather died in early 129 BC, Viserys and his family were away from the capital, as Rhaenyra was pregnant for the sixth time. This pregnancy resulted in the birth of Viserys' younger sister, Visenya, who was stillborn. [9]

The death of his grandfather triggered a war of succession between Viserys' mother, Rhaenyra, and his half-uncle, Prince Aegon, who was crowned King Aegon II Targaryen, despite Rhaenyra being the heir to the throne. [9]

Appearance and personality See also: Images of Viserys II Targaryen Viserys had silver-gold hair. [4] In his youth, Viserys was said to be striking, though not as handsome as his older brother, Aegon. [4] According to a semi-canonical source, Viserys II was clean-shaven and had long hair. He had a prominent nose, thick eyebrows, and a shrewd, calculating look. Once king, he wore the simple crown of Aegon III. [5]

Viserys was more frail than his brother Aegon in his youth, but he was more mature than Aegon and his Velaryon half-brothers (Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey). [1] As a boy, Viserys was considered intelligent and gallant. [6] He was well educated by tutors during his captivity and excelled in swordsmanship under the tutelage of his master-at-arms. [4]

Unlike Aegon, Viserys had the gift of charm, but later became severe. [7] Due to his intelligence, he was later compared in life to his great-great-grandfather, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, in terms of political ability. [7] According to Tyrion Lannister, Viserys was far more suited to rule the Seven Kingdoms than his nephews (Daeron I and Baelor I) whom he loyally served as Hand of the King.

Reign 171 BC - 172 BC Full name Viserys Targaryen II, of His Name Titles Hand of the King King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men Lord of the Seven Kingdoms Protector of the Kingdom Predecessor Baelor I Targaryen Heir Aegon IV Targaryen Successor Aegon IV Targaryen Personal information Born 122 BC [1] Dragon Stone [2] He died in 172 BC [3] Porto Real [2] Family House Targaryen Dynasty Spouse Larra Rogare Issue Aegon IV Targaryen Aemon Targaryen Naerys Targaryen Father Daemon Targaryen Mother Rhaenyra Targaryen