Editing Red Keep (section)

===Construction===
[[File:Red Keep - Lands of Ice and Fire.png|350px|thumb|The Red Keep, by Jonathan Roberts for ''[[The Lands of Ice and Fire]]''.]]
[[Image:Kings landing map.png|350px|thumb|1 [[Rosby road]], 2 [[Dragon Gate]], 3 [[Iron Gate]], 4 [[Dragonpit]], 5 [[Shae's manse]], 6 [[Chataya's brothel]], 7 [[Old Gate]], 8 [[Flea Bottom]], '''9 Red Keep''', 10 [[Street of the Sisters]], 11 [[Gate of the Gods]], 12 [[Cobbler's Square]], 13 [[Guildhall of the Alchemists]], 14 [[Hook]], 15 [[Great Sept of Baelor]], 16 [[Muddy Way]], 17 [[Fishmonger's Square]], 18 [[River Gate]], 19 [[shop of Tobho Mott|Tobho Mott's shop]], 20 [[Street of Steel]], 21 [[harbor of King's Landing|harbor]], 22 [[Lion Gate]], 23 [[River Row]], 24 [[fish market]], 25 [[tourney grounds (King's Landing)|tourney grounds]], 26 [[King's Gate]], 27 [[kingsroad]]]]

At the start of [[Aegon's Conquest]], [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] landed at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]]. On the highest of the three hills of the area, Aegon's Hill, he built his first fort of earth and wood,{{Ref|AGOT|18}} the [[Aegonfort]].{{Ref|AWOIAF|King's Landing}} The new city of [[King's Landing]], the capital of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], developed around the fort. In {{Date|35}} King Aegon I tore down the wooden Aegonfort so a more fitting stone castle could be raised for [[House Targaryen]], tasking his sister, Queen [[Visenya Targaryen]], and the [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Alyn Stokeworth]], with overseeing its construction.{{Ref|TWOIAF|4|1}}{{Ref|FAB|4}}

When Aegon died at [[Dragonstone]] in {{Date|37}}, he was succeeded by his son, [[Aenys I Targaryen]], who was crowned at Dragonstone and then traveled to the capital to claim the Iron Throne in the ruins of the Aegonfort.{{Ref|FAB|4}} Aenys was obsessed with the new castle, which the people of King's Landing named the Red Keep because of its stone,{{Ref|FAB|4}} but the king passed away at Dragonstone during the [[Faith Militant uprising]] in {{Date|42}}. Aenys was succeeded by his brother, [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor I]]. The Red Keep and the [[Sept of Remembrance]] were seized by [[Warrior's Sons]] and [[Poor Fellows]], but Maegor eventually used [[Balerion]] to destroy the [[Faith Militant]] at the sept and solidify his rule.{{Ref|TWOIAF|4|3}}

Maegor took personal charge of the Red Keep's construction in {{Date|43}}. He went beyond the plans of Aegon and Aenys by adding a moated redoubt, later known as [[Maegor's Holdfast]], within the walls of the Red Keep. He also commanded that secret passages, false walls, and trapdoors be introduced to the castle and tunnels through Aegon's High Hill.{{Ref|TWOIAF|4|3}} After Prince [[Viserys Targaryen (son of Aenys I)|Viserys Targaryen]] was tortured to death by [[Tyanna of the Tower]] in {{Date|44}}, King Maegor abandoned his nephew's body in the courtyard of the Red Keep.{{Ref|TWOIAF|4|3}} Many members of [[House Harroway]] were thrown onto the spikes below Maegor's Holdfast when the king extinguished the family in {{Date|44}}.{{Ref|FAB|4}}

When the castle was completed in {{Date|45}}, Maegor threw a feast for its builders, carvers, and stonemasons. After three days of feasting, however, Maegor the Cruel had all of the craftsmen killed so that only he would know the Red Keep's secrets.{{Ref|AGOT|18}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|4|3}} With the Red Keep complete, Maegor then began construction of the [[Dragonpit]]. When Maegor the Cruel was found dead on the [[Iron Throne]] in {{Date|48}}, one theory suggested that a mason familiar with the castle's secret passages had escaped Maegor's massacre and assassinated the king.{{Ref|TWOIAF|4|3}}