Aenar Targaryen
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Alias | Aenar the Exile |
Title | Lord of Dragonstone |
Allegiance | House Targaryen |
Culture | Valyrian |
Born | Valyria |
Died | Dragonstone |
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Lord Aenar Targaryen, known as Aenar the Exile, was a nobleman from the Valyrian Freehold. He is an ancestor of House Targaryen. He was the father of Daenys "the Dreamer" and Gaemon "the Glorious".[1]
History
Twelve years before the Doom of Valyria (114 BC), Aenar's daughter, Daenys "the Dreamer" Targaryen, foretold the destruction of Valyria. In response to this, Aenar sold his holdings in the Freehold and the Lands of the Long Summer and moved with all his wives, wealth, slaves, dragons, siblings, kin, and children to Dragonstone, a bleak island citadel beneath a smoking mountain in the narrow sea. The Targaryens, at the time, were far from the most powerful of the dragonlords, and their rivals in Valyria saw their flight as an act of surrender, as cowardice. However, because Aenar had moved his family away from Valyria, when the Doom finally came, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive.[1]
Aenar ruled as Lord of Dragonstone until his death, after which his son Gaemon inherited the rule.[1]
By the time of the War of the Five Kings, it is believed visions written down by Daenys, Aenar's daughter, before the Doom came to Valyria were in a book called Signs and Portents, that is now lost. Archmaester Marwyn claims he found three pages from it in his Book of Lost Books.[2]
Family
Aenar | Unknown wives | Siblings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaemon | Daenys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aegon | Elaena | Daughter | Petty Lord | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maegon | Aerys | Unknown wife | Issue [Note 1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aelyx | Baelon | Daemion | Unknown wife | Unknown Targaryen | Unknown Velaryon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unknown woman | Aerion | Valaena Velaryon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Argella Durrandon | Orys Baratheon | Visenya | Aegon I | Rhaenys | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.