Editing Viserys Targaryen (section)

===Early life===
Prince Viserys was born in [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|276}} to King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] and his sister-wife Queen [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], their first child to survive in the seventeen years since their son [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]'s birth, after multiple stillbirths, miscarriages, and infant deaths. The celebrated Viserys was small but robust and beautiful.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys's paranoia made him fear for the infant's life beyond reason, however. The [[Kingsguard]] watched him day and night, and Rhaella was forbidden to be alone with her son. Aerys insisted that his food taster drink from the breasts of the prince's [[wet nurse]], to make sure she had not smeared [[poison]] on her nipples. The king burned gifts sent by Westerosi [[lord]]s, thinking they might be [[magic|cursed]] or. Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] hosted a [[tournament in honor of Viserys's birth]] in [[Lannisport]], but only Aerys and Rhaegar attended from the royal family. When Rhaegar married [[Elia Martell]] in the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] in {{Date|280}}, Aerys refused to allow Viserys to attend. In the years following the wedding, rumors spread that Aerys intended to disinherit his estranged heir in favor of Viserys, even by the king's own men.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}