Pisswater prince

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Aegon Targaryen
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Elia may be holding the tanner’s son who had been swapped with Prince Aegon by Varys

Alias "Aegon Targaryen"
Allegiance House Targaryen
Born c. 282 AC
King's Landing
Died 283 AC
King's Landing
Book A Dance with Dragons (Mentioned)

Pisswater prince is the name that Tyrion Lannister gives the nameless tanner’s son from Pisswater Bend who was swapped with Prince Aegon Targaryen when he was an infant.

Events

His mother died birthing him and his father sold him to Lord Varys for a jug of Arbor gold - his father had other sons but had never tasted Arbor gold. Varys gave the pisswater prince to Elia Martell and carried Aegon away for his own safety. [1]

During the Sack of King's Landing, Ser Gregor Clegane scaled Maegor's Holdfast [2] and entered the nursery of the infant Prince Aegon, son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, and killed the baby present by dashing the boy's head against a wall. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] He then raped Princess Elia Martell, his hands still covered with the blood of the murdered baby. [6] [8] [7]

After the boy was dead, Varys smuggled Prince Aegon Targaryen across the narrow sea to his ally, the Magister Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos.[1]

References in the books

A Song of Ice and Fire

Quotes

The girl had been recognizably the Princess Rhaenys, but the boy... a faceless horror of bone and brain and gore. None of us looked long. Tywin said that it was Prince Aegon and we took him at his word. [9]

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