Editing Flea Bottom (section)

==History==
===Origins===
King's Landing began as an unplanned boom-town after [[Aegon's Conquest]]. What had started as King [[Aegon I Targaryen]]'s initial foothold and stockade on the mainland mushroomed in size so quickly and haphazardly that several slum districts developed, the largest and worst of which was Flea Bottom. By ten years after the Conquest, King's Landing had reached the size of a true city, almost as large as [[Gulltown]] or [[White Harbor]]. By twenty-five years after the Conquest, it had outgrown both of them in size, surpassed only by [[Lannisport]] and [[Oldtown]].{{Ref|FAB|Three Heads Had the Dragon - Governance Under King Aegon I}} It is unclear when the slum known as Flea Bottom first congealed out of the mud during this rushed expansion, but the earliest chronological mention of Flea Bottom is in {{date|49}}.{{Ref|FAB|The Year of the Three Brides - 49 AC}}

[[Tom the Strummer]], the Bard of Flea Bottom, participated in the [[War for the White Cloaks]].{{Ref|FAB|The Year of the Three Brides - 49 AC}} Queen [[Alysanne Targaryen]] later had the [[City Watch of King's Landing]] search Flea Bottom for Tom so that he could become the court singer.{{ref|FAB|A Time of Testing - The Realm Remade}}

During the terrible winter of {{date|59}}, when the plague known as the [[Shivers]] struck [[Westeros]], King's Landing was badly affected. So many of the [[City Watch of King's Landing|City Watch]] died in the plague that the city outside of the [[Red Keep]] was reduced to lawlessness and looting. [[Rego Draz]], the [[master of coin]], was killed in Flea Bottom during this time by an angry street gang, who cut the gemstones from his dead fingers.{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain}}

===The Dance of the Dragons===
[[File:Flea Bottom.jpg|thumb|Flea Bottom in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
By {{date|105}}, Prince [[Daemon Targaryen]] was known to the [[smallfolk]] as Lord Flea Bottom for his propensity for spending time in winesinks, gambling pits, and brothels.{{ref|FAB|Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession}}

According to ''[[The Testimony of Mushroom]]'', Ser [[Criston Cole]] found Prince [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] at a Flea Bottom [[rat pit]] when he went to inform the prince that he would crowned during the [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Blacks and the Greens}} [[Blood and Cheese]] were recruited in the stews of Flea Bottom.{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son}} Rioting broke out in the slums during the [[fall of King's Landing]] to Aegon III's rival, Daemon's wife [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]].{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold}} According to [[Mushroom]], Ser [[Ulf White]] drunkenly rode naked through Flea Bottom after being [[knight]]ed.{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant}}

[[Riot of King's Landing (Dance of the Dragons)|A great riot in the capital]] began in Flea Bottom in {{date|130}}, and bands of lawless men roamed the district. Ser [[Lorent Marbrand]] led a hundred knights and men-at-arms to bring order to Flea Bottom, but he was slain in the effort and only sixteen of his men returned safely to the Red Keep.{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Overthrown}} While trying to prevent the [[Storming of the Dragonpit]], Prince [[Joffrey Velaryon]] fell to his death while flying on [[Syrax]] above Flea Bottom. The [[Seven Who Rode]] fought to retrieve the prince's body from the mob.{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Overthrown}}

When the [[greens]] marched against the [[Shepherd]], Ser [[Perkin the Flea]] led his gutter knights from Flea Bottom up the slope of the [[Hill of Rhaenys]].{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II}} Two thousand men and boys from Flea Bottom armed with spears and pot helms were part of Lord [[Borros Baratheon]]'s host in the [[Battle of the Kingsroad]].{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II}}

During the [[Hour of the Wolf]], the younger son of Lord [[House Hornwood|Hornwood]] and two of his companions disappeared in Flea Bottom, with Mushroom suggesting they ended up in a [[bowl of brown]].{{ref|FAB|Aftermath - The Hour of the Wolf}}

Whores in Flea Bottom did well when visitors came to King's Landing for the [[wedding of Aegon III Targaryen and Jaehaera Targaryen]].{{ref|FAB|Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand}} Lady [[Baela Targaryen]] is said to have wagered [[coin]] and sometimes clothing in Flea Bottom's rat pits.{{ref|FAB|Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand}}

===Recent History===
Ser [[Duncan the Tall]] had a rough childhood growing up in Flea Bottom before meeting Ser [[Arlan of Pennytree]].{{ref|THK}}{{ref|TSS}}{{ref|TMK}}

The smuggler [[Davos Seaworth|Davos]] was a beggar in Flea Bottom during his childhood, and he was sometimes fed by [[septon]]s.{{ref|ACOK|10}}

As part of his [[wildfire plot]], King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] had his [[Alchemists' Guild|alchemists]] place caches of wildfire throughout King's Landing, including in the hovels of Flea Bottom.{{ref|ASOS|37}}

The violent Ser [[Clayton Suggs]] grew up in Flea Bottom.<ref name=TWOW>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref>