Jaehaera Targaryen
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| Predecessor | Helaena Targaryen | |||
| Successor | Daenaera Velaryon | |||
| Race | Valyrian | |||
| Culture | Crownlands | |||
| Born | In 123 AC[1] | |||
| Died | In 22nd day of the 9th moon of 133 AC[1], King's Landing | |||
| Father | Aegon II Targaryen | |||
| Mother | Helaena Targaryen | |||
| Spouse | King Aegon III Targaryen | |||
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| Played by | Unidentified | |||
| TV series | House of the Dragon: Season 1 | |||
Princess Jaehaera Targaryen was the daughter of King Aegon II Targaryen and his sister-wife and Queen Helaena Targaryen. She was the first wife and queen of her cousin King Aegon III Targaryen. Jaehaera had a twin brother, Jaehaerys, and a younger brother, Maelor. The dragon Morghul was bound to Jaehaera.[2]
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Appearance and Character
- See also: Images of Jaehaera Targaryen
Jaehaera was born tiny and slow to grow. She did not cry or smile or act as babies normally do.[1] Her lack of emotion continued as she grew older.[3] Jaehaera is described as a sweet and simple girl at the time of the Dance of the Dragons.[1]
History
The Dance of the Dragons
After the death of Prince Lucerys Velaryon, Prince Daemon Targaryen declared vengeance, writing that there would be "an eye for an eye, a son for a son". Jaehaera was present in the Tower of the Hand when Blood slew her twin, Prince Jaehaerys. Prior to the boy's death, as the queen prevaricated, Cheese warned her to make a choice soon, before Blood grew bored and raped Jaehaera.[4]
When Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragons first appeared in the skies above King's Landing, Lord Larys Strong spirited Jaehaera out of the city along with her father, King Aegon II, and younger brother, Maelor. Larys led them out through a secret passage of Maegor's Holdfast, of which only he had knowledge. Jaehaera was put in the charge of Ser Willis Fell of the Kingsguard, who swore to bring her safely to Storm's End.[2]
Following the deaths of her parents, brothers, and uncles in the Dance and the victory of the blacks, Jaehaera was married to her cousin King Aegon III Targaryen as part of the peace agreement. Since she was eight years old at the time of the marriage and Aegon was eleven, it was not consummated.[5]
Death
Two years after her marriage, Jaehaera died when she reportedly threw herself from Maegor's Holdfast and was impaled on the spikes of the dry moat below. She lived for a half hour in agony before her death. With her ended the line of the marriage of King Viserys I Targaryen and his second wife, Queen Alicent Hightower.[6]
Jaehaera's death was officially deemed a suicide, akin to that of her mother, Queen Helaena Targaryen. However, many suspected that she had been murdered at the instigation of Lord Unwin Peake, the Hand of the King and one of the seven regents of Aegon III, as Unwin hoped to marry his own daughter to Aegon instead. It was variously suggested that Jaehaera had been murdered by Ser Mervyn Flowers of the Kingsguard, bastard half-brother of Lord Peake, who had been guarding at the door to her bedchamber when she died; or that Mervyn had merely stood aside to allow Tessario the Tiger, a sellsword in Lord Peake's service, to do the deed.[5][6]
Family
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Viserys I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
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