Aenar Targaryen

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Aenar Targaryen
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Alias Aenar the Exile
Title Lord of Dragonstone
Allegiance House Targaryen
Culture Valyrian
Born Valyria
Died Dragonstone
Books

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
 
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Siblings
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gaemon
 
Daenys
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aegon
 
Elaena
 
Daughter
 
 
 
Petty Lord
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maegon
 
Aerys
 
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Issue
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Aelyx
 
Baelon
 
Daemion
 
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wife
 
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Targaryen
 
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Velaryon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
woman
 
 
 
 
 
Aerion
 
 
 
 
 
Valaena
Velaryon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Argella
Durrandon
 
Orys
Baratheon
 
Visenya
 
Aegon I
 
Rhaenys
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Notes:
  1. One of the claimants of the Great Council of 101 AC was a descendant of Lord Gaemon's younger daughter who married a petty Lord.


References and Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest.
  2. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.