Difference between revisions of "Aenar Targaryen"

From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
Jump to: navigation, search
m
(3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Character
+
{{Infobox character
| Character_name = Aenar Targaryen<ref>The red three-headed dragon was adopted by [[Aegon I Targaryen]] after the [[Aegon's Conquest|Conquest]]. This means that Targaryens prior to the Conquest did not use this heraldry, and as such it is not displayed in this article.</ref>
+
| firstname = Aenar
 +
| lastname = Targaryen<ref>The red three-headed dragon was adopted by [[Aegon I Targaryen]] after the [[Aegon's Conquest|Conquest]]. This means that Targaryens prior to the Conquest did not use this heraldry, and as such it is not displayed in this article.</ref>
 +
| title = Lord
 
| image = [[File:Aenar.png|300px]]
 
| image = [[File:Aenar.png|300px]]
 
| image_caption = Aenar Targaryen as depicted in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': ''Histories & Lore''.
 
| image_caption = Aenar Targaryen as depicted in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': ''Histories & Lore''.
| Alias = Aenar the Exile{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}
+
| Alias = Aenar the Exile{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}<br>The Lord who Left<ref>[https://twitter.com/GRRMspeaking/status/1469004523217817601 George R. R. Martin on Twitter]</ref>
 
| Title = [[Dragonlord]]<br>[[Lord of Dragonstone]]
 
| Title = [[Dragonlord]]<br>[[Lord of Dragonstone]]
 
| Allegiance = [[House Targaryen]]
 
| Allegiance = [[House Targaryen]]
 
| Race = [[Valyria]]n
 
| Race = [[Valyria]]n
 
| Culture = [[Valyrian Freehold|Valyrian]]
 
| Culture = [[Valyrian Freehold|Valyrian]]
| Spouse = Several wives{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}
+
| Spouse = Several wives{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}
 
| Issue = [[Gaemon Targaryen (son of Aenar)|Gaemon Targaryen]]<br>[[Daenys Targaryen]]
 
| Issue = [[Gaemon Targaryen (son of Aenar)|Gaemon Targaryen]]<br>[[Daenys Targaryen]]
 
| Place_of_Birth = [[Valyria]]
 
| Place_of_Birth = [[Valyria]]
Line 14: Line 16:
 
| Place_of_Death = [[Dragonstone]]
 
| Place_of_Death = [[Dragonstone]]
 
| Date_of_Death = or after {{Date|-102}}<ref name=Calculation/>
 
| Date_of_Death = or after {{Date|-102}}<ref name=Calculation/>
| Books = ''[[The World of Ice & Fire]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[Fire & Blood]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned)
+
| Books = ''[[The World of Ice & Fire]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[Fire & Blood]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[The Rise of the Dragon]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned)
 
}}
 
}}
  
Line 20: Line 22:
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
In {{Date|-114}}, twelve years before the [[Doom of Valyria]], Aenar's daughter, [[Daenys Targaryen|Daenys the Dreamer]], foretold the destruction of [[Valyria]]. In response to this, Aenar sold his holdings in the [[Valyrian Freehold]] and the [[Lands of the Long Summer]], and moved with all his family, wealth, [[slaves]], and [[dragon]]s to [[Dragonstone]], a bleak island citadel beneath the [[Dragonmont]], a smoking mountain in the [[narrow sea]]. The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the [[dragonlord]]s, and their rivals in Valyria saw their flight as an act of cowardice. However, because Aenar had moved his family away from Valyria, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive the Doom in {{Date|-102}} and the following [[Century of Blood]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{Ref|FAB|Aegon's Conquest}}
+
In {{Date|-114}}, twelve years before the [[Doom of Valyria]], Aenar's daughter, [[Daenys Targaryen|Daenys the Dreamer]], foretold the destruction of [[Valyria]]. In response to this, Aenar sold his holdings in the [[Valyrian Freehold]] and the [[Lands of the Long Summer]], and moved with all his family, wealth, [[slaves]], and [[dragon]]s to [[Dragonstone]], a bleak island citadel beneath the [[Dragonmont]], a smoking mountain in the [[narrow sea]]. The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the [[dragonlord]]s, and their rivals in Valyria saw their flight as an act of cowardice. However, because Aenar had moved his family away from Valyria, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive the Doom in {{Date|-102}} and the following [[Century of Blood]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{Ref|FAB|Aegon's Conquest}}
  
Aenar ruled as [[Lord of Dragonstone]] until his death, after which his son [[Gaemon Targaryen (son of Aenar)|Gaemon]] inherited the rule.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{Ref|FAB|Aegon's Conquest}}
+
Aenar ruled as [[Lord of Dragonstone]] until his death, after which his son [[Gaemon Targaryen (son of Aenar)|Gaemon]] inherited the rule.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{Ref|FAB|Aegon's Conquest}}
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==

Revision as of 10:15, 11 November 2022

Lord
Aenar Targaryen[1]
Aenar.png
Aenar Targaryen as depicted in Game of Thrones: Histories & Lore.

Aliases
  • Aenar the Exile[2]
  • The Lord who Left[3]
Titles
Allegiance House Targaryen
Race Valyrian
Culture Valyrian
Born before 127 BC[4]
Valyria
Died or after 102 BC[4]
Dragonstone
Spouse Several wives[2]
Issue
Books

Aenar Targaryen, known as Aenar the Exile, was a nobleman and a dragonlord of House Targaryen from the Valyrian Freehold. He was the father of Daenys "the Dreamer" and Gaemon "the Glorious".[2][5]

History

In 114 BC, twelve years before the Doom of Valyria, Aenar's daughter, Daenys the Dreamer, foretold the destruction of Valyria. In response to this, Aenar sold his holdings in the Valyrian Freehold and the Lands of the Long Summer, and moved with all his family, wealth, slaves, and dragons to Dragonstone, a bleak island citadel beneath the Dragonmont, a smoking mountain in the narrow sea. The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the dragonlords, and their rivals in Valyria saw their flight as an act of cowardice. However, because Aenar had moved his family away from Valyria, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive the Doom in 102 BC and the following Century of Blood.[2][5]

Aenar ruled as Lord of Dragonstone until his death, after which his son Gaemon inherited the rule.[2][5]

Recent Events

A Feast For Crows

By the time of the War of the Five Kings, it is believed that a book called Signs and Portents contained visions written down by Aenar's daughter Daenys before the Doom, a book that is now lost. Archmaester Marwyn claims he found three pages from it in his Book of Lost Books.[6]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aenar
 
Unknown
wives
 
Siblings
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gaemon
 
Daenys
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aegon
 
Elaena
 
Daughter
 
 
 
Petty Lord
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maegon
 
Aerys
 
Unknown
wife
 
Issue
[Note 1]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aelyx
 
Baelon
 
Daemion
 
Unknown
wife
 
Unknown
Targaryen
 
Unknown
Velaryon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
woman
 
 
 
 
 
Aerion
 
 
 
 
 
Valaena
Velaryon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Argella
Durrandon
 
Orys
Baratheon
 
Visenya
 
Aegon I
 
Rhaenys
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
House Baratheon.svg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
House Targaryen.svg
 
Notes:
  1. One of the claimants of the Great Council of 101 AC was a descendant of Lord Gaemon's younger daughter who married a petty Lord.


References

  1. The red three-headed dragon was adopted by Aegon I Targaryen after the Conquest. This means that Targaryens prior to the Conquest did not use this heraldry, and as such it is not displayed in this article.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The World of Ice & Fire, The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest.
  3. George R. R. Martin on Twitter
  4. 4.0 4.1 See the Aenar Targaryen calculation.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fire & Blood, Aegon's Conquest.
  6. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.