Editing Sunspear (section)

===Aegon the Conqueror===
Queen [[Rhaenys Targaryen]] confronted [[Meria Martell]] at Sunspear during [[Aegon's Conquest]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but the [[Princess of Dorne]] refused to surrender and Rhaenys retreated from [[Dorne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Targaryens: The Conquest}}

During the [[First Dornish War]], the [[Dornishmen]] abandoned their castles, allowing [[House Targaryen]] to take them without fighting. Meria vacated Sunspear before the arrival of King [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and Queen [[Rhaenys Targaryen]], who found the [[shadow city]] half abandoned as well. Within Sunspear's great hall, Aegon declared that Dorne was now part of the realm ruled by the [[Iron Throne]], and he named Lord [[Jon Rosby]] as [[Warden of the Sands]] and Castellan of Sunspear. After Aegon returned to [[King's Landing]], however, Dorne rose in rebellion. Dornishmen swarmed in from the shadow city and Jon was killed in the [[Defenestration of Sunspear]]. Lord [[Harlan Tyrell]] marched east from the [[Hellholt]] to retake Sunspear, but his host disappeared in the red sands of Dorne.{{ref|FAB|Reign of the Dragon - The Wars of King Aegon I}}

Later in the war, during the two years of the [[Dragon's Wroth]], the Targaryens burned the Dornish castles with [[dragonfire]], with the exception of Sunspear. ''[[Conjectures]]'' by Archmaester [[Timotty]] suggests the Targaryens did so to encourage [[House Martell]]'s bannermen to turn against their overlords, although the Dornish remained loyal.{{ref|TWOIAF|Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons}}<ref group="N">''[[Fire & Blood]]'' says [https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/152641-spoilers-fire-and-blood-errata/ in error] that Sunspear was burned by [[Vhagar]] during the war.</ref>