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House Blackfyre
House Blackfyre.png
Coat of arms Gules, a three-headed dragon sable
Head Extinct
Ancestral weapon Blackfire
Founder Daemon Blackfyre
Founded 184 AL
Died out +/- 256 AL

House Blackfyre was founded by Daemon Blackfyre, the bastard-son of Aegon IV 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 14. The sword had been the personal weapon of the first Targaryen king Aegon I and all his successors.

It is not known if lands were bestowed on Daemon. If so this was probably in the Blackwater Bay area, around Dragonstone or around Summerhal, which regions were directly ruled by the Targaryens.

In 195 AL Daemon and his friends and allies revolted against Daeron II, his half-brother using the old rumor that Daeron was the son of Aemon the Dragonknigh instead of Aegon IV and that the gift of the ancestral weapon Blackfyre proved that Aegon wanted Daemon to succeed him.

Ultimately the rebellion failed and Daemon and his eldest sons perished on the Redgrass field. His two surviving sons fled to the Free Cities with a number of supporters. They and their descendents attacked the Seven Kingdoms a number of times (as many as five Blackfyre rebellions have been mentioned).

The last attack was in 257 AL when Maelys the Monstruous joined forces with a number of ambitious man and invaded the Stepstones as a base for a future invasion of the Seven Kingdoms. Aegon V send an army that defeated the rebels. Maelys the Monstruous was killed in single combat by Barristan Selmy. As he was the last of his line the House died out.