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-'''House Targaryen''' is a fictional family in [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''.  House Targaryen ruled as the Kings of [[Westeros]] for nearly 300 years.  Their seats were the capital city of [[Westeros#King's Landing|King's Landing]] and the island castle of [[Westeros#Dragonstone|Dragonstone]].  Their sigil is a three-headed dragon breathing flames, red on black, and their words are "Fire and Blood."
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-==History, traits and customs==
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-The Targaryens were not native to [[Westeros]], but originally hailed from the freehold of [[Westeros#Valyria|Valyria]] on the eastern continent. Before the Doom of Valyria, the cataclysmic event that destroyed the ancient civilization, the Targaryens departed for the island citadel of Dragonstone off the Westerosi shore, which was at that time the westernmost Valyrian outpost. <ref>RPG</ref> Here, the Targaryens abandoned the Valyrian gods and converted to the Andal faith of the Seven Gods, then the predominant religion in Westeros. A century after that cataclysm, Aegon I, styled the Conqueror, began his conquest of mainland Westeros, landing with dragons and an army at what would later be called [[Westeros#King's Landing|King's Landing]]). Six of the seven kingdoms fell before him.
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-Uniquely among noble Westerosi families, the Targaryens follow the Valyrian practice of incestuous marriage, wedding brother to sister.  The phrase "blood of the dragon" refers to a number of typical Targaryen features: silvery-gold (or platinum) hair and violet eyes. Some Targaryens also have a high tolerance of heat, though they are by no means immune to fire.
-The Targaryens are known as dragonlords, and seem to be closer to dragons than other men are. Aegon I introduced dragons to Westeros when he conquered it, and dragons were kept and ridden by the Targaryens until the last one perished in the reign of Aegon III Dragonbane.
-Probably due to their incestuous practices, the Targaryens are prone to madness; King Jaehaerys II said that with the birth of a new Targaryen the gods tossed a coin to decide whether the child would be great or mad.
-===Dragonstone===
-[[Image:Dragonstone-location.jpg|thumb|Location of Dragonstone]]
-Dragonstone is one of a group of islands in the Narrow Sea, close to the Westerosi shore. It used to be the westernmost outpost of the freehold of Valyria. For centuries, the island has been the seat of House Targaryen, and after the conquest, the Targaryen [[heir apparent]] was styled Prince of Dragonstone. On the nearby island of Driftmark, house Velaryon is another Valyrian house to survive the Doom.
-The island is dominated by a huge fortress, its towers shaped like dragons and decorated with a thousand gargoyles, and an active volcano, the Dragonmont. Beneath the mountain there are rich deposits of obsidian.
-===Genealogy===
-[[Image:Targtree2.png|Targaryen Family Tree]]
-===Timeline===
-All dates are given relative to Aegon's Landing (AL).
-;before ca. -200 AL: House Targaryen relocates to the island of [[Westeros#Dragonstone|Dragonstone]], off the coast of [[Westeros]].
-;The Doom of Valyria (ca. -200 AL): The Doom destroys the freehold of Valyria.
-;The Wars of Conquest (ca. 1 AL): Aided by his three dragons Vhagar, Meraxes, and Balerion, the armies of Aegon the Conqueror invade the seven kingdoms of Westeros, sparking the Wars of Conquest. In the battle known as the "Field of Fire," Aegon's army conquers the combined forces of the Rock and of the Reach; the three dragons kill nearly four thousand men. Many other kings bend the knee to Aegon, and in the end, only Dorne in the South remains unconquered.
-;The Dance of the Dragons (ca. 131 AL)
-: Aegon II's claim to the throne is disputed by his elder sister Rhaenyra; both perish in the resulting war.
-;Conquest of Dorne (ca. 157 AL)
-:Aged 14, Daeron I conquers Dorne, but is unable to hold it.
-;The Battle of the Redgrass Field (196 AL): The first Blackfyre rebellion ends when the rebel Daemon Blackfyre's forces are defeated in the Battle of the Redgrass Field. These events are recounted in ''[[The Hedge Knight#The Sworn Sword|The Sworn Sword]]''.
-;Tourney at Ashford (208 AL)
-: Baelor Breakspear dies at the [[Tourneys in A Song of Ice and Fire#Ashford tourney|Ashford tourney]]. These events are recounted in ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''.
-;Great Spring Sickness (209 AL)
-:A plague engulfs large parts of Westeros, killing King Daeron II and his grandsons Valarr and Matarys.
-;Great Council (233 AL)
-:A great council passes over the infant bastard son of Aerion Brightflame and the idiot daughter of Prince Daeron, crowning Aegon V, the Unlikely.
-;War of the Usurper (283 AL)
-:The Targaryen reign ends when the Robert Baratheon takes the Iron Throne in the [[Aerys Targaryen#War of the Usurper|War of the Usurper]] and Mad King Aerys is killed by his sworn knight Jaime Lannister.
-==Targaryens in ''A Song of Ice and Fire==
-===Viserys===
-[[Image:Viserys_Targaryen.jpg|thumb|Viserys Targaryen, by [http://www.amoka.net Roman Papsuev]]]
-Second son of Aerys II, Viserys fled [[Westeros]] along with his sister Daenerys, and spent the next fifteen years wandering the [[Westeros#Free Cities|Free Cities]].  He is a cruel, ambitious man, blunt of speech and given to violent mood swings.  He hopes to return to Westeros and reclaim his father's throne.
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-Viserys arranged the marriage of Daenerys to Khal Drogo, hoping to buy Drogo's armies with her, and to use them to reclaim the Seven Kingdoms. Viserys, while ambitious, was also blind to reality; he saw himself as a rightful, victorious savior to the people of Westeros, due respect and adoration, never noticing that even his sister and his sworn knight [[Jorah_Mormont#Jorah_Mormont| Jorah Mormont]] scorned his petty, vindictive nature. Despite a constant loss of dignity and standing among Drogo's ''khalasar'' for his outrageous behavior, he continued to demand Drogo's aid and verbally abuse his sister until Drogo "crowned" him with molten gold. Viserys did not survive, although his plan did, as Daenerys' marriage to Drogo gained her control of the khal's army.
-===Daenerys===
-''Main article: [[Daenerys Targaryen]]''
-Exiled with her brother Viserys after the fall of the Targaryens, Daenerys Targaryen plans to reclaim [[Westeros]] in the future.
-===Maester Aemon===
-Third son of King Maekar I Targaryen, Aemon was sent to the Citadel according to the wishes of his grandfather, King Daeron II Targaryen.  At this time, King Daeron II had four grown sons, three with sons of their own, and so felt that having too many potential Targaryen heirs was as dangerous as having too few. He forged his chain, and now Maester Aemon served an unidentified lord until his father, now King Maekar I, summoned him to court after ascending to the Iron Throne.  Maester Aemon chose to serve at the keep of his eldest brother, Prince Daeron.  After Prince Daeron's death, Maester Aemon's whereabouts are unknown.  After the death of King Maekar I, Maester Aemon was summoned to court in the year of the Great Council.  He was offered the crown, quietly, but refused, ceding rule to his younger brother.
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-Later he was sent to serve as a black brother of the Night's Watch, but the exact circumstances of how he came to be there are unknown. Maester Aemon served with the Night's Watch for many long years.
-After The War of the Five Kings ended, Lord Commander Jon Snow, King Robb Stark's brother, sent Samwell Tarly to learn to become a maester, as Aemon was old and blind by this time. Maester Aemon traveled with Samwell Tarly and the Wildling girl Gilly on their journey to Oldtown. However the sea voyage was too hard for the old man. He died at the age of one hundred and two and according to Alleras, a novice at the Citadel, was the oldest living man in Westeros.
-==Historical Targaryens==
-===Daena the Defiant===
-The eldest daughter of King Aegon III, Daena was married to her brother Baelor, but the marriage was never consumated. When Baelor ascended to the Iron Throne, he desolved their marriage and confined her, along with her sisters, to a tower of the Red Keep to avoid sexual temptation. Daena and her sisters became known as the Maidens in the Tower, and their prison was soon called the Maidenvault. Despite her imprisonment, Daena was an athletic and willful woman. She had a secret affair with her cousin, the future Aegon IV, and bore his child. She became known as Daena the Defiant when she refused to name the father of her bastard. Her son grew to become Daemon Blackfyre, a pretender to the Iron Throne.
-===Aemon the Dragonknight===
-The second son of Viserys II, Aemon joined the Kingsguard at the age of seventeen.  Songs speak of his doomed love for his brother's queen, his own sister, Queen Naerys.  It is rumoured that Prince Aemon was the father of King Daeron II Targaryen.  Prince Aemon has been referred to as the noblest knight who ever lived.  He defended the honor of his sister, Queen Naerys, against the slanders of the "Evil" Ser Morgil.  He also won a tournament, disguised as a mystery knight known only as the Knight of Tears, naming his sister, Naerys, Queen of Love and Beauty.  He died defending his elder brother and King, Aegon the Unworthy, during an assassination attempt by two brothers of House Toyne in retribution for Aemon's execution of their third brother.  Prince Aemon bore the Valyrian longsword, "Dark Sister."
-===Aegon IV===
-Called “the Unworthy,” Aegon is remembered as one of the worst kings of the Targaryen dynasty. Handsome in his youth, and an infamous womaniser, he fathered countless bastards on his many mistresses, and legitimised them all on his deathbed, old, fat, and corrupt. Among these, four were highborn - the Great Bastards Brynden Rivers, Shiera Seastar, Daemon Blackfyre, and Aegor Rivers. His legitimate son Daeron II was rumoured to have been fathered by Aegon’s brother Aemon. The conflicting claims of Aegon's children to the Targaryen succession led to many conflicts that jeopardised the stability of the realm, starting with the first Blackfyre Rebellion.
-===Daeron II===
-Daeron II was acknowledged as the eldest son and heir of Aegon IV and his sister and wife, Queen Naerys. Named, "the Good," Daeron is credited with bringing Dorne into the Seven Kingdoms through a dual marriage pact. While still a prince, he married the Dornish Princess Myriah Martell, and later his sister married Prince Maron Martell, the ruling Prince of Dorne. Daeron was a physically unimpressive man who kept company with maesters and other learned men, which put him at odds with the Westerosi warrior culture. After ascending to the Iron Throne, Daeron survived a rebellion against his reign led by his half-brother Daemon Blackfyre. He died during the Great Spring Sickness.
-===Brynden Rivers===
-Brynden Rivers, an albino, called "Bloodraven" for a birthmark on his face, was a legitimized Great Bastard of Aegon IV and Mylessa Blackwood, his sixth mistress. His personal arms were a white dragon with red eyes breathing red flame on a black field. During the Blackfyre Rebellion he remained loyal to Aerys I and fought for him at the Battle of the Redgrass Field. During that battle, he killed his half-brother, the pretender Daemon Blackfyre, with his bow. At the same battle he lost an eye fighting another rebellious half-brother, Aegor “Bittersteel” Rivers. Though Brynden carried the Valyrian sword Dark Sister, he preferred his weirwood longbow and was an expert archer. After the rebellion he became Hand of the King to Aerys I. As "Lord Bloodraven" he was rumored to be a sinister sorcerer, effectively ruling the kingdom “with spies and spells”. A song about Bloodraven, ''A Thousand Eyes, and One'', is still sung almost a century later. Bloodraven was imprisoned, and sent to the Wall ''ca.'' 233 AL by King Aegon V, eventually becoming Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
-===Daemon Blackfyre===
-Daemon was the bastard son of Daena the Defiant and Aegon IV. After his father took the throne, Daemon dinstinguished himself during a tournament melee by besting a score of other squires. As a result, King Aegon acknowledged Daemon as his son and presented him with Blackfyre, the Valyrian steel sword of kings. Thereafter he became known as Daemon Blackfyre. His personal arms were the inverted Targaryen arms, a black dragon on a field of red. After Aegon IV legitimized all his bastards on his deathbed, Daemon led a rebellion against his half-brother Daeron II for the Iron Throne. Due to his battle prowess and his possession of Blackfyre, Daemon rallied many notable warriors to his side. He very nearly succeeded in taking the throne, but after many opportunities missed only by chance, his rebellion was crushed by loyalist forces. Daemon was killed along with his sons at the Battle of the Redgrass Field.
-===Aerion===
-Called "Brightflame", "Brightfire", or "Aerion the Monstrous", this prince is remembered as one of the clearest examples of Targaryen madness. Cruel, vain, and arrogant, he thought himself a dragon in human form. After a disastrous trial by combat instigated by Aerion's bad behavior took the life of another Targaryen prince, his father Maekar sent Aerion to Lys and the Free Cities, where he remained for some years. Aerion died when he drank a cup of wildfire, believing that it would turn him into a dragon. He left an infant son, who despite his stronger claim to the Iron Throne, was passed over by the Great Council upon the death of Maekar I in favour of Aegon V.
-===Aegon V===
-The fourth son of a fourth son, Aegon was called "the Unlikely," and became king only after a Great Council that bypassed a number of candidates earlier in the line of succession, and after his elder brother Aemon refused the throne.
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-The child Aegon traveled the countryside of Westeros as "Egg," squire to the hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall, more commonly known as "Dunk." After "Egg" was crowned, he made Duncan commander of the Kingsguard.
-(Also see: [[The Hedge Knight]])
-===Aerys II===
-Aerys Targaryen (also called "Aerys II," "Aerys the Mad," "the Mad King,"  and "King Scab") was the last member of House Targaryen to sit the Iron Throne, ruling from 262 to 283 AL. He showed great promise at the start of his reign, but grew increasingly unstable. His behavior led some of the noble houses to revolt against the Targaryen dynasty. This revolt, known as the [[Wars in A Song of Ice and Fire#War of the Usurper|War of the Usurper]] or Robert's Rebellion, led to the death of Aerys and most of House Targaryen.
-Aerys's reign began in 262 AL, when he was 19. Following ancient Targaryen practice, Aerys had married to his sister Rhaella. They had three children: sons Rhaegar and Viserys, and daughter [[Daenerys_Targaryen|Daenerys]], who was born during the last stage of the War of the Usurper. Supported by his able councillors, foremost among them the King's Hand, [[House Lannister#Tywin|Tywin Lannister]], Aerys gave the realm many years of peace and prosperity, and "left the treasury flowing with gold.”
-Aerys was pleasant to his friends, but very harsh to those he thought his enemies. He was always a bit insane, but could be charming and generous, so his early lapses into madness were forgiven and overlooked. Over time, though, the lapses grew more and more frequent. He cut himself so often on the Iron Throne that men took to calling him King Scab.
-Like many Targaryens, Aerys was obsessed with fire, notably the magical and highly flammable substance called wildfire, which he fancied to have put in jars shaped like fruit. According to [[House Lannister#Jaime|Jaime Lannister]], Aerys would have bathed in wildfire if he dared. He took a great interest in the work of the Pyromancer's Guild and had an inordinate amount of wildfire made during his reign. He had many enemies burned alive, including Lord Qarlton Chelsted, named Hand of the King after Aerys dismissed and exiled Lord Jon Connington, and Lord Rickard Stark, father of Eddard Stark. He made the head of the Pyromancer's Guild, Lord Rossart, his final Hand of the King.
-When Robert's victory in the rebellion became certain, Aerys had his pyromancers create a huge reserve of wildfire and secret it around the city of King's Landing, planning to burn the entire city down (and kill all of its half million inhabitants) rather than surrender the city intact. However, before the plan could be carried out, Jaime Lannister intercepted Lord Rossart, whom he killed before assassinating King Aerys himself.
-===Rhaegar===
-[[Image:rhaegar.JPEG|thumb|Prince Rhaegar on the harp]]
-Eldest son of Aerys II, and heir apparent to the Iron Throne. A highly intelligent and handsome but brooding, melancholy man, he kept his thoughts closely guarded. He was champion at the [[Tourneys in A Song of Ice and Fire#Harrenhal tourney|tourney at Harrenhal]], and shocked those present by passing over his wife, [[House Martell#Elia|Princess Elia]] to crown [[House Stark#Lyanna|Lyanna Stark]] queen of love and beauty by giving her the crown of winter roses. Rhaegar later disappeared with Lyanna, an act that many people, including Lyanna's family and her betrothed, Robert Baratheon, viewed as an abduction. While the exact nature of their relationship is not currently known, outrage over the act ultimately triggered [[Wars in A Song of Ice and Fire#War of the Usurper|Robert's rebellion]]. Rhaegar was killed by Robert during that conflict at the Battle of the Trident.
-Though Robert vilified Rhaegar throughout ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'', other characters have expressed admiration for him. His younger sister [[Daenerys Targaryen]] is sometimes compared to him as a compliment.
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