Editing Flea Bottom (section)

===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}}