Valar Morghulis Andals, Rhoynar and First Men! I'm Kai and on this video I will tell you briefly everything that happened in the almost 300 years of Targaryen reign in the history of Westeros, from the Conquest of Aegon until Robert's Rebellion. As you remember Aegon was crowned in Oldtown after two years of war to conquer Westeros and after the coronation the count of the years resumed. Okay, so Aegon was a glorious king, under his command the kingdom thrived undisputedly. For this he always had the help of his sister Rhaenys, who made a great labour to keep the kingdom unified by arranging marriages among distant houses with the goal of strenghtening the bonds of the Seven Kingdoms which once were enemies. Aegon used to spend half a year between King's Landing and Dragonstone and the other half, he dedicated to travel across his dominions, from Oldtown to Winterfell to be with his vassals and to stay in their homes under the roof of his knights or even simple innkeepers. However, despite the glory of his reign between the years 4 and 13 After the Conquest, the First Dornish War was fought, which was a disaster and it meant Aegon's first defeat. His sister Rhaenys and her dragon Meraxes died both during the strife, and Dorne wasn't submitted thanks to the fact that its habitants fought a guerrilla warfare against which the mighty Targaryen dragons could do little. Aegon had two sons, the elder, Aenys, with his sister Rhaenys and the younger, Maegor, with his sister Visenya. Aegon's end came to him in the year 37 A.C., when he was 64 years old, he had a heart attack while he was with his grandsons at Dragonstone. His reign had been long, prosperous, fair and peaceful but none of these virtues would often repeat among his descendants. When he died, Aenys, his eldest son succeded him. Unfortunately, Aenys was all the opposite to his father, he was weak and indecisive and he didn't know to rule properly, let alone to rule with an iron fist. In the first years of his reign there were four revolts none of which was subdued by him, instead it was his subjects who had to defeat the rebels. And later on, the Faith rose against him because of the customs of his house, because they married among themselves. Which was a sin, and incest in the eyes of the Seven Gods that dominated religion in Westeros. In the end not just the Faith, but almost all the kingdom turned against Aenys as he simply caught a disease and died in 41 A.C., when he was only 34 years old. Although some speculate that it was Visenya, his aunt, who killed him secretly so that her son, Maegor, got to be king. And so with the death of Aenys, Maegor was crowned and actually he is known as Maegor the Cruel, for being the most ruthless king ever to sit in the Iron Throne. Maegor had been exiled years before but after the death of Aenys, Visenya flew to Pentos to tell Maegor, who came to her call and was crowned king. The Grand Maester of that time opposed him because according to the laws, the heir should be Aegon, the son of Aenys, but Maegor beheaded him and after that, few people dared to oppose him. So Maegor's reing stood out because of many continuous wars mostly against the members of the Faith, who were his main enemies. In the year 43 A.C., Aegon the son of Aenys rose up to claim the throne that belonged to him by right, but he died in the attempt. In the year 44 A.C., Visenya, the mother of Maegor, died of natural causes and in the year 45 A.C. Maegor completed the construction of the Red Keep. One of the things that drove him mad was his unability to have sons, he had six different wives, some of which had a proven fertility, but even so only monstruous and misshaped were born. After six years of ruling, finally the entire kingdom joint under the command of Jaehaerys, son of Aenys, to put an end to his terrible government. And it is said that Maegor was found dead on the Iron Throne, with his clothes soaked in blood. The exact circumstances of his dead are unknown, but some say that he committed suicide, some others say that he was killed by his own Kingsguard, and others say that it was the Iron Throne itself the one that cut his veins with its sharp edges. King Jaehaerys ascended to the throne with 14 years, and he turned out to be, without counting his grandfather Aegon, the best king that ever existed in the history of Westeros. Currently he is known as the Conciliator, the Old King because he ruled for 55 years with peace and wisdom, he took charge of the difficult task of rejoining the throne with the Faith, he ordered the construction of the largest roads in the kingdom and he accomplished significant improvements for King's Landing, such as wells, aqueducts and sewers. Both him and his sister-wife were very loved by the common people and his biggest problem was that in the end of his days, they had so many sons and grandsons that there were too many possible successors. His two first male sons had died, so Jaehaerys called for a great council at Harrenhal where every lord in the kingdom, great and minor, assisted. And all together they decided that his grandson, Viserys, would be the heir to the throne. Finally, Jaehaerys died of old age in the year 103 A.C., in the great age of 69 years, and never again there was in Westeros a king as good and wise as him. The reign of Viserys was prosperous for Westeros, though it planted the seed of disgrace for House Targaryen. The problem was caused again for the succession of the throne. Viserys had one younger brother, Daemon, but instead of naming him as his heir, he named his daughter Rhaenyra. In turn, Rhaenyra got married and had three children, as Viserys got married again and had three more sons. And finally, Rhaenyra got married for a second time, this time with her uncle Daemon, and two male sons were born. Viserys made clear hundreds of times that his heir had to be Rhaenyra, but when he died, his second wife and the Small Council convinced Aegon, his male son, to reclaim the crown for himself. And so the Dance of the Dragons began, which was the greatest civil war of the history of the Seven Kingdoms where crimes and murders were committed everywhere, where there were battles left and right and both the soil and the people suffered to the maximum. It was a very hard war, that lasted two years and where dragons and princes died all the same. In the end, the Dance finished in the year 131 A.C., when Rhaenyra was devoured and Aegon was poisoned. Following the death of almost all the pretenders, the one who kept the throne was Aegon III, the son of Rhaenyra. He didn't turn out to be a great king and yet he wasn't loved by the people, he was a melancholic, who didn't find any pleasure and locked himself in his chambers for days. In the end of the Dance, 4 living dragons remained but the four would die during the first 18 years of his reign, and with them the race of the dragons went extinct. Finally, Aegon himself would die because of a tuberculosis with 36 years. The one who succeded him was his son Daeron, known as the Young Dragon, and with only 14 years he set the task of completing the conquest and to append Dorne for once to his territory. His campaign strategy was so brilliant that they could conquer Dorne although at a very high cost. But unfortunately, when Daeron returned to King's Landing, the common folk of Dorned rose up in rebellion and during the next three years more than 40 000 men were killed. Daeron returned south to reestablish order but he was killed in treason under the white flag of parley. The one who succeded him was his brother Baelor. He was the tasked of signing peace with Dorne by performing a pilgrimage, delivering the hostages and marrying the daughter of the prince of Dorne with his cousin Aegon's son. Later on he saved his other cousin, Aemon, from the snakes where he had been kept prisioner, and from that moment on he started to do crazy things, like locking up his three sisters to keep them pure or to illegalize prostitution and to throw out of King's Landing all the whores and their children. He also began the construction of what would be known as the Great Sept of Baelor, and he killed himself ten years after being crowned, when he was in a fast to expiate the sin of one of his sisters, who had had a bastard son. So dead by starvation, his successor could be one of his sisters but regarding the previous facts of Jaehaerys's Great Council and the Dance of the Dragons, it was thought that the successor should better be a male and not a woman, and so was crowned Viserys, the brother of Aegon III. He had been Hand of his brother and his two nephews but his own reign lasted little more than a year so he had no time to achieve anything remarkable. Viserys had two sons and one daughter. The elder was the successor, Aegon IV, but he was capricious and irresponsible, one of the worst members ever born in the Targaryen family. His brother Aemon, one year younger, was 100 times better than him just as strong and beautifil but more more skilled, more noble and wiser. Unfortunately, the Gods wanted Aegon to be the first born. Aemon and his sister, Naerys, loved each other, but his father made her marry his brother Aegon, Aegon and Aemon argued during the feast and Naerys cried during the bedding. Aegon IV was an evil king, one of the worst of all the history of Westeros, an unworthy heir of Aegon the Conqueror. He filled the court not with the best men but with those who flattered him the best, he bragged of sleeping with more than 900 women of which he loved 9. He tried to conquer Dorne destroying the treaty that Baelor had signed, he never apprehended neither of his two brothers, and though Aemon died defending him and Naerys was killed indirectly by Aemon, he never made any sort of homage in their honor. But the worst he would do in his deathbed, when he was so fat that he couldn't even move, and where he signed his will legitimised all the bastard sons he had had. Because of that, Daeron, his heir, suffered a rebellion from Daemon, who was one of the bastards. Daemon was called Blackfyre, because his father had given him the sword of the such named, the one Aegon the Conqueror himself used, despite the fact it was a sword only for the Targaryens. That was the seed that led to the civil war when Daemon proclaimed himself rightful king and the war after known to history as the Blackfyre Rebellion took place. Almost a year later, the last battle of the war was fought, where Daemon died, but some of his sons and one of his bastard brothers, who was known as Bittersteel survived and fled to Essos, and there they founded the band of mercenaries known as the Golden Company. Despite this rebellion, the 25 years of Daeron's government were good and prosperous, and in them stands out the fact that Dorne finally joined the Seven Kingdoms thanks to the marriage arranged by Baelor years before. Unfortunately the years of his reign ended abruptly, with the Great Spring Sickness in the year 209 A.C. His son Aerys ruled over 12 years, where two new Blackfyre rebellions ocurred, and although both of them were crushed Bittersteel managed to escape and there were still some descendants of Daemon across the sea. Aerys died of natural causes but without any children and didn't consummate his marriage, and was succeeded by his brother, Maekar. His reign was peaceful, but again came up the problem of the succession, his two older sons died before him, his third son was Aemon Targaryen who became maester of the Citadel, and his fourth son was Aegon, who was little loved because in his youth he had served as a squire for a knight-errant. Even so he was chosen as new king when Maekar died and was known as Aegon V the Unlikely, because he was the fourth son of the fourth son. Aegon grew up among peasants and thus during his reign he gave many privileges to the common folk at the same time he took them from the great lords. This brought him many enemies and Aegon was forced to suffocate rebellion after rebellion. Plus during his reign the fourth Blackfyre Rebellion took place, where Bittersteel escaped again to fall afterwards in Essos, though his legacy survived in the Golden Company. Luckily, in all these battles Aegon had the help of Duncan the Tall, lord Commander of the Kingsguard, one of the best warriors in all the history of Westeros and with him, every rebellion could be suffocated. In his last years, Aegon was obsessed with the dragons and he tried to bring them back to life although he failed, and he died with his elder son and Duncan the Tall in the tragedy of Summerhall, under unknown circumstances. His successor was then Jaehaerys II who, all the opposite to his strong father, was a sick man. His reign was marked with the War of the Ninepenny Kings where the last of the Blackfyre pretenders died, slain by Barristan Selmy of the Kingsguard. Jaehaerys was a good king, who could make up with the lords who felt offended by his father's reforms, but unfortunately he fell sick and died three years after his coronation. And so it was that his only son and heir succeeded him, Aerys II, at start Aerys's reign was promising but with time it grew ever regrettable. The only thing good was the Hand of the King, Tywin Lannister, who took charge of ruling and managing the whole kingdom despite the fact that Aerys and his flatterers only laughed at him. Madness and desparation flooded Aerys with the multiple misscariages and weak sons given birth to by his wife-sister, and it reached its highest point with the Defiance of Duskendale where Aerys was held prisioner and he might have died if it weren't for the bravery of Barristan Selmy. Aerys's madness not only caused his death, but also the end of the reign of the House Targaryen. His son Rhaegar took Lyanna Stark after the tourney of Harrenhal and Aerys had slowly killed both her brother Brandon and her father Rickard, when they went to King's Landing. He then demanded the heads of Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark, and all together it provoked the great war known as Robert's Rebellion. Lyanna's kidnapping and the murders of Brandon and Rickard were the last straws that broke the camel's back of the patience of the great lords, and of the seven kingdoms, five of them rose up against Aerys and only two of them remained loyal to the throne. Both Rhaegar and Aerys were murdered, the former in battle and the latter in treason and Robert Baratheon, who had a little Targaryen blood in his veins was named the new king of the seven kingdoms. And so the reign of House Targaryen came to its end, after seventeen kings and almost three hundred years of rule. But Viserys and Daenerys, the two younger sons of Aerys, managed to escape alive, and with that the Targaryens didn't go extinct. And with this ends my video about the Targaryen dinasty in Westeros. It should be noted that what I have done was to resume very briefly all the history, and because of that what I can do, if you're interested, is to make particular videos of all or at least the majority of these 17 kings that existed, as I did the video about the Mad King. Therefore I hope you tell me in the comments what would you like, and in any case, thanks for watching this video, hit that thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe for more Game of Thrones videos. Greetings to all lads.
