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Fates of Targaryen queens and mothers


Jaak

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Starting from the time we know:


  1. Velena Velaryon. Aegon´s accession by definition required Aerion to have died, but what became of Velena?
  2. Rhaenys - crashed at Hellholt in 10, further fate unknown.
  3. Visenya - survived her husband and died natural caused in 44, age 73
  4. Alyssa Velaryon - survived her husband and went on to be a regent and remarry Baratheon, with two children
  5. Ceryse - died for uncertain causes in her husband´s reign (natural or poisoning)
  6. Alys Harroway - executed with all her family for adultery
  7. Tyanna of Tower - killed for poisoning her cowives
  8. Elinor Costayne: survived King, further fate unreported
  9. Rhaena Targaryen - rider of Dreamfyre, widow of King Aegon. Was forced to marry Maegor after Tyanna found her daughters hid by lord Farman (Where was Dreamfyre hid?). Maegor made her daughter Aerea his heir (which she was anyway as the heiress of Aegon...). Rhaena fled to Jaehaerys when his little brother proclaimed for Crown, stealing Blackfyre... what did she then do with her daughters, and what became of them in Jaehaerys´ reign?
  10. Jeyne Westerling - died after stillbirth. Note that the tally is just 6 - a SSM states 8 or 9.
  11. Alysanne - died of broken heart soon after Princess Gael
  12. Jocelyn Baratheon - one child (daughter Rhaenys), fate unknown
  13. Princess Alyssa - two sons (Viserys and Daemon), fate unknown
  14. Aemma Arryn - died in childbirth
  15. Alicent Hightower - left by fleeing Rhaenyra in golden chains at Red Keep, further fate not clear
  16. Helaena - fell off a window of Maegor´s Holdfast. Various explanations offered. The two circulating ones are intentional suicide, and murder by someone like Luthor Largent. But note that she was not sane. Are there plausible alternatives, like attempting to climb out of the window, or just lean out of the window to look?
  17. Jaehaera - also fall out of window. Was it positively inspired by similar fall of Helaena? And then inspiring whom - Jaehaera or her assassins? She was not a sane adult either. She was ten when she fell. Also, when she was young, she was noted to not smile. Yet when she was 6, the twins were mentioned to have listened to grandfather with attention. So, how normal or otherwise was she when she was 10? She must have been disappointed to survive for half an hour, unlike her mother who died instantly of a spike chancing through her throat. Odd, though, that nobody had thought to childproof the window of her room after the example of her mother. Again, no one mentions the possibility of intent to climb out of ´window or lean out to look.
  18. Daenaera Velaryon - five children, fate unknown
  19. Queen Daena - divorced, then imprisoned in Maidenvault. Bore Daemon. Her uncle usurped her throne, for her imprisonment had hampered recruitment of supporters.
  20. Larra Rogare - three children, left her family and went home, further fate unknown
  21. Queen Naerys - two children, fate unknown
  22. Mariah Martell - four sons, fate unknown
  23. Aelinor Penrose - childless because unconsummated, fate unknown
  24. Baelor Breakspear´s wife - ?
  25. Rhaegel´s wife - ?
  26. Aelora - as a childless widow attacked by Rat, Hawk and Pig, slew herself
  27. Maekar´s wife - 6 children, died before 209
  28. Daeron the Drunk´s wife - what became of her and Vaella the Simple?
  29. Aerion´s wife - what became of her and Maegor?
  30. Black Betha
  31. Saera - stayed with Jaehaerys in Red Keep during 9p War, therefore survived Summerhall. Fate unknown.
  32. Rhaella - died in bearing Daenerys
  33. Elia - killed and raped by Gregor

So, what is known about these gaps?


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  1. Queen Daena - divorced, then imprisoned in Maidenvault. Bore Daemon. Her uncle usurped her throne, for her imprisonment had hampered recruitment of supporters.

Daena claimed Viserys usurped her, but that position isn't really supported considering the results of the Dance of the Dragons and the laws of succession to the Iron Throne.

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Daena claimed Viserys usurped her, but that position isn't really supported considering the results of the Dance of the Dragons and the laws of succession to the Iron Throne.

Which would seem to indicate the Throne is passed MORE agnatically than other lordships, as while sons come before daughters even if younger (outside of Dorne), for lordly seats a daughter would come before the dead-lord's brother.

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She's stated to have died in childbirth soon after the death of the Dragonknight.

Right, thanks.

By Andal law, Aegon was ahead of Rhaenyra, not because women could not inherit but because they come after younger brethren. After younger brethren but before uncles.

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Right, thanks.

By Andal law, Aegon was ahead of Rhaenyra, not because women could not inherit but because they come after younger brethren. After younger brethren but before uncles.

But under that reading it should have been Jaehaera that was the inheriting monarch from her father, not his nephew Aegon III. Given they were briefly married of course to add more legitimacy to Aegon III, but it was still he who succeeded his uncle to the throne from the beginning. So the settlement of the Dance did give a stronger agnatic precedent than normal Andal succession.

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But under that reading it should have been Jaehaera that was the inheriting monarch from her father, not his nephew Aegon III. Given they were briefly married of course to add more legitimacy to Aegon III, but it was still he who succeeded his uncle to the throne from the beginning. So the settlement of the Dance did give a stronger agnatic precedent than normal Andal succession.

Yes, that is pretty clear.

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But under that reading it should have been Jaehaera that was the inheriting monarch from her father, not his nephew Aegon III. Given they were briefly married of course to add more legitimacy to Aegon III, but it was still he who succeeded his uncle to the throne from the beginning. So the settlement of the Dance did give a stronger agnatic precedent than normal Andal succession.

Or no clear precedent at all. Aegon III was the rightful King by two very different theories. Either by Viserys I-s will: Viserys->Rhaenyra->Aegon, with Aegon II always an usurper for Blacks. Or by Salic law: Viserys->Aegon II->(Daemon, predeceased)->Aegon III. But not by Andal law (which would have been Viserys->Aegon II->Jaehaera suo jure).

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Which is a pity. She deserved a way worse fate than simply imprisonment.

All her children were dead. And she had 1 trueborn grandchild surviving out of 3. (Plus the bunch of Aegon´s bastards, plus Aemond´s).

Who imprisoned her - Corlys, or Cregan?

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What did the Greens at Storm´s End, Oldtown and Casterly Rock think of her imprisonment? It would have sounded as a threat to them.

I don't know about the Hightowers, but I expect the Baratheons and Lannisters would have by that point thought that she had led them into a ruinous and losing war, and thus were glad to be done with her.

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