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According to [[Illyrio Mopatis]] the Blackfyres were extinguished in the male line when [[Maelys Blackfyre]] was slain by Ser [[Barristan Selmy]]. {{Ref|aDwD|5}} What happened to the female line is not known.
 
According to [[Illyrio Mopatis]] the Blackfyres were extinguished in the male line when [[Maelys Blackfyre]] was slain by Ser [[Barristan Selmy]]. {{Ref|aDwD|5}} What happened to the female line is not known.
  
==House Genealogy==
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==Historical Members==
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* [[Daemon Blackfyre]], founder of House Blackfyre. Started the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
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** [[Aegon Blackfyre]], his first born son. His fathers heir and squire. Twin to Aemon.
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** [[Aemon Blackfyre]], his second son. A squire to his father and twin to Aegon.
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** [[Daemon II Blackfyre]], his third son. He led the brief Second Blackfyre Rebellion.
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** [[Haegon Blackfyre]], his fourth son. Heir to his older brother Daemon II.
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** Three other sons and daughters.
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* [[Maelys Blackfyre]], '''the Monstrous''', Captain-General of the Golden Company.
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==Historical House Genealogy==
 
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Revision as of 14:26, 25 July 2014

House Blackfyre of King's Landing
House Blackfyre crest.png
Coat of arms Gules, a three headed dragon breathing flames sable
Head Extinct
Overlord House Targaryen
Ancestral weapon Blackfyre
Founder Daemon Blackfyre
Founded 184 AC
Died out +/- 256 AC

House Blackfyre is a semi-extinct noble house from the Crownlands. A cadet branch of House Targaryen, House Blackfyre was founded by Daemon Blackfyre, a legitimized Great Bastard of King Aegon IV Targaryen. House Blackfyre is named for the Valyrian steel sword of the same name.

Their sigil was a black three-headed dragon, breathing black fire on red, the Targaryen sigil with the colours reversed. Their motto is unknown. Among the traits passed on to the Blackfyres by the Targaryens were platinum blond hair, violet eyes and the premonition-like dragon dream ability.[1]

History

House Blackfyre was founded by Daemon Blackfyre, a bastard son of Aegon IV Targaryen, after he was legitimized by his dying father. Daemon inversed the Targaryen arms for his coat of arms and named the house after the sword Blackfyre that his father gave him when he was fourteen.[2] The sword had been the personal weapon of the first Targaryen king, Aegon the Conqueror, and all his successors. It is not known if lands were bestowed on Daemon.

In 195 AC Daemon and his friends and allies revolted against Daeron II Targaryen, his half-brother, using the old rumor that Daeron was the son of Aemon the Dragonknight instead of Aegon IV and that the gift of the ancestral weapon Blackfyre proved that Aegon wanted Daemon to succeed him. Ultimately the Blackfyre Rebellion failed in the Battle of the Redgrass Field. Daemon broke Lord Arryn's van in the battle, slaying Wyl Waynwood and the Knight of Ninestars and severely injuring Ser Gwayne Corbray of the Kingsguard. While protecting his fallen foes, Daemon and his two eldest sons, Aemon and Aegon Blackfyre, were slain by his Great Bastard half-brother Brynden Rivers, known as Bloodraven, and the Raven's Teeth.

Daemon's remaining sons fled to the Free Cities of Essos with his principal supporter, Aegor Rivers, known as Bittersteel, another Great Bastard of King Aegon IV. When Aegor saw all the exiled lords and knights signing on with other sellsword companies, and saw the support of House Blackfyre ebbing away, he created his own sellsword company, the Golden Company.

Daemon II Blackfyre, who had dragon dreams, defeated Ser Franklyn Frey and Ser Galtry the Green in the Whitewalls Tourney, which was where the Second Blackfyre Rebellion began in 212 AC. However, the rebellion was snuffed out quickly by Bloodraven before it could spread beyond Whitewalls and several key Blackfyre supporters were killed.[1] The remaining sons and their descendants attacked the Seven Kingdoms a number of times (as many as five Blackfyre rebellions have been mentioned).

The last attack was between 259261 AC when Maelys the Monstruous, head of the Golden Company, joined forces with a number of ambitious men and invaded the Stepstones as a base for a future invasion of the Seven Kingdoms. Jaehaerys II sent an army that defeated the rebels.[3] Maelys was killed in single combat by Ser Barristan Selmy, who cut a bloody path though the Golden Company's ranks to get to Maelys.

The Female Blackfyre Line

According to Illyrio Mopatis the Blackfyres were extinguished in the male line when Maelys Blackfyre was slain by Ser Barristan Selmy. [4] What happened to the female line is not known.

Historical Members

  • Daemon Blackfyre, founder of House Blackfyre. Started the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
    • Aegon Blackfyre, his first born son. His fathers heir and squire. Twin to Aemon.
    • Aemon Blackfyre, his second son. A squire to his father and twin to Aegon.
    • Daemon II Blackfyre, his third son. He led the brief Second Blackfyre Rebellion.
    • Haegon Blackfyre, his fourth son. Heir to his older brother Daemon II.
    • Three other sons and daughters.
  • Maelys Blackfyre, the Monstrous, Captain-General of the Golden Company.

Historical House Genealogy

 
 
 
Daena
Targaryen
 
 
 
 
Aegon IV
Targaryen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Barba
Bracken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daemon I
 
Rohanne
of Tyrosh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aegon
 
 
Daemon II
 
 
Aenys
 
Two sons
 
 
Calla
 
Aegor
Rivers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aemon
 
Haegon
 
Unknown
wife
 
Daughter(s)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daemon III
 
Son(s)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daemon
 
Maelys
 

Quotes

Aegon the Fourth legitimized all his bastards on his deathbed. And how much pain, grief, war and murder grew from that? … The Blackfyre pretenders troubled the Targaryens for five generations, until Barristan the Bold slew the last of them on the Stepstones. [5]

- Catelyn Stark, to King Robb Stark


When Maelys the Monstrous died upon the Stepstones, it was the end of the male line of House Blackfyre. [4]

- Illyrio Mopatis, to Tyrion Lannister

References and Notes