Bartimos Celtigar

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Bartimos Celtigar
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Titles
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Race Valyrian
Culture crownlands
Died 130 AC
King's Landing
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Bartimos Celtigar was a Lord of Claw Isle and a head of House Celtigar during the Dance of the Dragons.[1]

History

Lord Bartimos was a member of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen's black council during the Dance of the Dragons. He urged the queen to use her numerical advantage in dragons to take King's Landing from King Aegon II Targaryen, but Rhaenyra agreed with the cautious Prince Daemon Targaryen.[1] After Rhaenyra seized control of King's Landing, Lord Bartimos was made her Master of Coin on her small council. The treasury was completely empty and Rhaenyra was in desperate need of coin, for the Greens had sent three quarters of the gold away for safe keeping and spent the rest prior to the fall of the capital, to rectify this Lord Bartimos put in place the ruinous taxes his ancestor Edwell Celtigar once enacted, although Bartimos went a step further. Taxes on wine and ale were doubled, port fees tripled. Every shop keeper was assessed a fee to keep his doors open. Innkeepers were required to pay a silver stag for each bed in their inn. The entry and exit fees once put on the City Gates by Rego Draz were brought back at triple the cost. A property tax was put in place that small folk and wealthy must have paid. Bartimos even made executions a source of coin, those wishing to witness an execution must pay three pennies to witness them. Merchants and traders who couldn't pay had their property, ships or cargo seized. These taxes though they replenished the queens coffers, made her and Bartimos despised by the populace.[2]

After the Treasons of Tumbleton by the Two Betrayers, Bartimos urged Rhaenyra to arrest the other two baseborn dragonriders, Ser Addam Velaryon and Nettles.[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Princess and the Queen.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Fire & Blood, They Dying of the Dragons- Rhaenyra Triumphant.