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Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was the Rhaegar Targaryen
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1 Appearance and Character
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2.2 Tourney at Harrenhal Prince Rhaegar Targaryen as depicted by Karla Ortiz in
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3.1 A Game of Thrones Alias Silver prince[1]
3.2 A Clash of Kings The dragon prince[2]
Play 3.3 A Storm of Swords The last dragon[3]
3.4 A Feast for Crows
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3.4 A Feast for Crows
Title Prince of Dragonstone
3.5 A Dance with Dragons
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4 Quotes by Rhaegar
5 Quotes about Rhaegar Allegiance House Targaryen
6 Family
Culture Valyrian
7 Notes
8 References Born In 259 AC, at Summerhall[4]
While King Robert I Baratheon despises Rhaegar and accuses him of having raped Lyanna
Stark, the only thought of Eddard Stark, Lyanna's brother, that is mentioned in the books is
that Eddard did not think Rhaegar frequented brothels.[14] Ser Jaime Lannister remembers
the iron tones of Rhaegar's voice[11]. Ser Barristan Selmy, who served three kings, thinks that
Rhaegar would have been better then any of them. His sister, Daenerys Targaryen, is often
compared to Rhaegar as a compliment. People who had romantic feelings toward Rhaegar
include Cersei Lannister[7] and Jon Connington.[15]
History
Early life
Prince Rhaegar was the firstborn
son of King Aerys II Targaryen
and Queen Rhaella. He was born
at Summerhall in 259 AC, on the
same day as the great tragedy
there.[16][4] As a child he read
obsessively, to the point that
jests were made about his habits.
He became a noted warrior later
in life, although he did not initially Marriage to Princess Elia Martell of Dorne
seem inclined to martial habits.
However, apparently by
something he had read, Rhaegar became motivated to become a warrior.[13]
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At the age of seventeen, Rhaegar was knighted, and from all reports grew into a highly skilled
and capable fighter, always distinguishing himself well at tournaments, although he seldom
entered the lists - he never loved the song of swords the way that men like Robert Baratheon
or Jaime Lannister did.[13] Men said Rhaegar loved his harp more than he loved his lance.[13]
Rhaegar's squires were Myles Mooton and Richard Lonmouth, and after he knighted them
they remained close companions. Jon Connington, whom he had squired with,[17] was a good
friend to Rhaegar as well. Returning from a trip to Dorne, Rhaegar once visited the
Connington seat of Griffin's Roost. His songs brought the castle's women to tears, while Lord
Armond Connington sought House Targaryen's support against rival House Morrigen.[18]
Rhaegar's closest and oldest friend, however, was Ser Arthur Dayne,[19] the Sword of the
Morning, trusting him more than Ser Barristan Selmy.[20]
Rhaegar often liked to visit the ruins of Summerhall with only his harp and when he returned
he sang songs of such beauty they could reduce women to tears. Although Rhaegar was
often dour, private and bookish, Cersei Lannister noted at the tournament in honor of
Viserys's birth in Lannisport in 276 AC that the smallfolk cheered for Lord Tywin Lannister
twice as much as for King Aerys II, but only half as loudly for Tywin as for Rhaegar.[7]
Rhaegar fought well in the tourney besting a dozen skilled knights, among them Ser Barristan
Selmy and Gerion and Tygett Lannister but was defeated in the champion's tilt by his friend
Arthur Dayne.[21] Aerys refused Tywin's offer at the tourney to betroth Cersei to Rhaegar.[7]
Rhaegar defeated Arthur in the tourney at Storm's End.[13]
When Rhaegar was born the Targaryen bloodline had decreased, and once he came of age,
there was no sister, or anyone else of the bloodline, available for him to marry.[22][23] King
Aerys sent his first cousin, Lord Steffon Baratheon, to seek a bride for Rhaegar.[23] Despite
Valyrian blood still being present in Essos, Steffon could not find appropriate females of
noble-enough birth for Rhaegar to marry.[21]
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After this, Rhaegar married the Dornish princess Elia Martell in a lavish ceremony. His father
did not attend the wedding because he was paranoid about an assassination attempt and did
not permit the young Prince Viserys to attend. Rhaegar and his father's relationship was
straining at this point, and he and his new bride took up residence on Dragonstone instead of
King's Landing. Rhaegar and Elia had their first child, a girl named Rhaenys,[5] in 280 AC.
When the babe was presented at court, Rhaegar's mother, Rhaella, embraced her grandchild
warmly while King Aerys remarked "she smells Dornish". The relationship between Aerys and
Rhaegar became more and more estranged.[21]
Elia and Rhaegar had a son they named Aegon. Elia, due to her delicate health, was bed-
ridden for half a year after giving birth to Rhaenys and nearly died giving birth to Aegon, after
which the maesters told Rhaegar she would be unable to have any more children.[18]
Maester Aemon, whom Rhaegar corresponded with via raven messages, remembers that
Rhaegar believed his child Aegon to be the prince that was promised.[16]
When Lord Tywin resigned his position as Hand of the King and left court, the new focus of
King Aerys's mistrust and paranoia was his own son and heir, Prince Rhaegar. At court, there
was growing tension between factions loyal to the king and to the prince. Grand Maester
Pycelle dispatched a letter to the Citadel, writing that tensions and division at court strongly
resembled those before the Dance of the Dragons. Pycelle was fearful a civil war would break
out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.[24]
Tourney at Harrenhal
In either 280 AC or 281
AC,[N 2] Lord Walter
Whent announced a
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tourney would be held at
Harrenhal to rival any
previous tournament. It is
believed by some that
the tourney was secretly
arranged and financed
by Prince Rhaegar, as a
pretext, so Rhaegar
could meet up with the
great lords of the realm Rhaegar crowns Lyanna Stark as queen of love and beauty as
to discuss arranging a depicted by Paolo Puggioni in The World of Ice and Fire
Great Council and the
removal of his father.
The tournament was announced by Walter shortly after his brother, Ser Oswell of the
Kingsguard, visited his older brother. When Lord Varys alerted Aerys II to this possibility, the
king decided to attend the tourney.[20][24]
During the great tourney at Harrenhal, Rhaegar seemed unstoppable and defeated even Ser
Arthur Dayne. Taking the winter rose crown for the queen of love and beauty, he revealed his
interest in Lyanna Stark by passing over his wife, Princess Elia of Dorne, and setting it in
Lyanna's lap. Eddard Stark later recalled that moment as "when all the smiles died".[10][13]
The next year, Rhaegar seemingly kidnapped Lyanna, for reasons unknown. This act
ultimately triggered Robert's Rebellion and the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty.
Robert's Rebellion
Some believe that
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Rhaegar spent the
beginning of Robert's
Rebellion, also known as
the War of the Usurper,
with Lyanna Stark at the
tower of joy in the Red
Mountains of Dorne.
Aerys sent Gerold
Hightower, the Lord
Commander of the
The Battle of the Trident as depicted by Justin Sweet in The World of
Kingsguard, to retrieve Ice and Fire.
Rhaegar. Leaving
Gerold, Arthur Dayne,
and Oswell Whent at the tower,[4] Rhaegar returned to the crownlands and took command of
the Targaryen army after the defeat of his friend Jon Connington in the Battle of the Bells.
Ser Jaime Lannister was left at the Red Keep to protect Rhaegar's father and family.[25]
Rhaegar met Lord Robert Baratheon in combat at a ford during the Battle of the Trident,
where the pair had a legendary duel in the raging rivers of the Trident. Rhaegar, despite
wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which
scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor under the water. While Rhaegar lay dead
in the stream, soldiers of both armies scrabbled in the water to search for the rubies. The
location was named the ruby ford thereafter. Rhaegar died with Lyanna Stark's name on his
lips.[4] According to a semi-canon source, Rhaegar's body was cremated, as is traditional for
fallen Targaryens.[26]
His wife Elia and their children were murdered by Ser Gregor Clegane and Ser Amory Lorch
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during the Sack of King's Landing. Amory dragged the screaming girl, Rhaenys, from under
her father's bed and stabbed her to death. Gregor, whom Rhaegar had knighted, killed the
infant Aegon by dashing his head against the wall while his mother watched. He then raped
and killed Elia while still covered in the blood and brains of her son.[27][28] Meanwhile, Jaime
Lannister killed Rhaegar's father, King Aerys, to prevent the wildfire plot, earning himself the
Kingslayer sobriquet.[29]
The circumstances of Rhaegar's taking of Lyanna, and of her reaction to it, remain unknown.
The Starks, Brandon Stark in particular, saw it as an abduction, and Robert Baratheon
imagined that Rhaegar was raping Lyanna while he kept her prisoner. However, the
Targaryen tradition sees Rhaegar acting out of true love for Lyanna. Lord Eddard Stark,
Lyanna's brother, and Lord Howland Reed found her at Rhaegar's tower of joy in Dorne.[30]
Lyanna died in the Red Mountains after Eddard's arrival and his defeat of the three
Kingsguard. She made her brother give a promise, the content of which remains
unknown.[14][31]
What all sides seem to agree upon is that the meeting of Rhaegar and Lyanna was fateful as
it led to immense bloodshed. This leads to imaginations of an alternate history, in which
Rhaegar never became infatuated with Lyanna. Viserys Targaryen blames his sister
Daenerys once for the downfall of the Targaryens, because she was not born earlier, as
Rhaegar could then have married her and might have never become interested in Lyanna.[13]
Ser Kevan Lannister imagines that, had King Aerys accepted Lord Tywin Lannister's proposal
of marrying his daughter Cersei to Rhaegar, the dragon prince might have never looked twice
at Lyanna.[32]
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A Game of Thrones
Discussing Robert's Rebellion with Lord Eddard
Stark, King Robert I Baratheon vilifies Rhaegar
for raping Ned's sister, Lyanna Stark.[33]
When Lord Tywin Lannister discusses with his Rhaegar and Elia - by Denkata5698
brother Kevan and his son Tyrion the dire
situation of the Lannister forces after the defeats
in the battle in the Whispering Wood and the Battle of the Camps, Tyrion jests that his father
should take comfort from the fact that Prince Rhaegar is still dead.[36]
A Clash of Kings
The green and bronze Rhaegal, one of three dragons hatched by Daenerys, is named in
honor of her brave brother who was killed on the green banks of the Trident.[37]
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Rhaegar appears in Daenerys's vision in the House of the Undying. He discusses with his
wife, Elia Martell, what he will name his son (Aegon) and his destiny. Rhaegar states that the
boy is the prince that was promised and his is the song of ice and fire. Dany also has a vision
of Rhaegar's death at the ruby ford of the Trident at the hands of Robert I Baratheon.[6]
A Storm of Swords
While aboard the ship Balerion, Arstan Whitebeard tells Daenerys that Rhaegar was able and
dutiful. While Rhaegar was bookish in his youth, he decided to become a warrior after reading
about something unknown in his scrolls.[19] Arstan later tells of the melancholy in Rhaegar's
fondness of Summerhall.[13]
While resting his head on a weirwood stump, Ser Jaime Lannister has a fever dream of five of
his old Kingsguard brothers under King Aerys II Targaryen. Beside them, crowned in mist and
grief with his long hair streaming behind him, rides Rhaegar, who burns with a cold light of
changing colors. Rhaegar's shade accuses Jaime of not protecting his family during the Sack
of King's Landing.[25]
Cersei Lannister remembers wanting to marry Rhaegar after meeting him at the tournament
in honor of Viserys's birth, but Aerys refused Tywin's suggestion of betrothal. Cersei, Robert's
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widow, never forgave Robert for killing Rhaegar at the ruby ford.[7]
Barristan later regrets having rescued King Aerys II from Duskendale, as he thinks Rhaeger
would have been a better king than Jaehaerys II, Aerys II, or Robert I.[41] Barristan also
regrets not having defeated Rhaegar in the lists at the tourney at Harrenhal, as the victorious
prince had proclaimed Lyanna Stark the queen of love and beauty.[20]
Traveling south on the Rhoyne, Tyrion Lannister discovers the sellsword Griff is actually Jon
Connington, the exiled friend of Rhaegar and former Hand of the King to Aerys II. The youth
called Young Griff is said to actually be Rhaegar's son, Aegon Targaryen, widely believed to
have been murdered by Ser Gregor Clegane during the Sack of King's Landing. The exiles
claim that Varys had switched the infant Aegon with a peasant baby and taken Aegon to
safety with Illyrio Mopatis, and that Gregor killed the peasant child instead.[42][17]
Jon discusses the issue of trust with Aegon, and then recalls that Rhaegar had been aware of
Aerys's paranoia.[1] After landing in the stormlands with the Golden Company to claim the Iron
Throne for Aegon, Jon vows he will not fail Rhaegar's son as he failed his father. Jon thinks
that Rhaegar's eyes were a darker purple than those of the boy.[18]
Quotes by Rhaegar
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Rhaegar: Aegon. What better name for a king?
- Rhaegar and Elia Martell in Daenerys Targaryen's vision in the House of the Undying
When the battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to
do it long ago, but ... well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall
talk when I return.[11]
- Rhaegar to Jaime Lannister
In my dreams, I kill him every night. A thousand deaths will still be less than he
deserves.[9]
Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
And Rhaegar ... how many times do you think he raped your sister? How many
hundreds of times? I will kill every Targaryen I can get my hands on, until they are
as dead as their dragons, and then I will piss on their graves. [33]
Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
Robert: Treachery was a coin the Targaryens knew well. Lannister paid them back
in kind. It was no less than they deserved. I shall not trouble my sleep over it.
Eddard: You were not there. There was no honor in that conquest.
Robert: The Others take your honor! What did any Targaryen ever know of honor?
Go down into your crypt and ask Lyanna about the dragon's honor![33]
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Your brother Rhaegar was the last dragon, and he died on the Trident. Viserys is
less than the shadow of a snake.[3]
Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen
Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his
knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name.[6]
- vision of Daenerys Targaryen in the House of the Undying
Daenerys: Ser Jorah named Rhaegar the last dragon once. He had to have been
Barristan: Your Grace, the Prince of Dragonstone was a most puissant warrior,
but...
Daenerys: Go on. You may speak freely to me.
Barristan: As you command. A warrior without peer... those are fine words, Your
Grace, but words win no battles.[19]
Daenerys: One day you must tell me all. The good and the bad. There is some
Barristan: There is, your Grace. Of him, and those who came before him. Your
grandfather Jaehaerys and his brother, their father Aegon, your mother... and
Rhaegar. Him most of all.
Daenerys: I wish I could have known him.[45]
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Had any man ever been so beautiful?[7]
thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna and thousands died for it.[20]
thoughts of Barristan Selmy
Family
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Blackwood
Jenny
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Duncan of Shaera Daeron Rhaelle
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Rhaenys Aegon Daeron Aegon Viserys Rhaego
Notes
1. Erroneously listed as 282 AC in early prints of The World of Ice and Fire, which has
subsequently been corrected into 283 AC in later prints
2. The World of Ice and Fire lists two contradicting dates. In "The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II",
the announcement is stated to have been made in 280 AC, but in "The Fall of the Dragons: The
Year of the False Spring", the announcement of the tourney is stated as having been made in
281 AC. It has not yet been confirmed which date is correct.
References
1. 1.0 1.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
2. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 24, Bran II.
3. 3.0 3.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 23, Daenerys III.
4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Rhaegar Targaryen.
5. 5.0 5.1 A Game of Thrones, Appendix.
6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 48, Daenerys IV.
7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei V.
8. The Winds of Winter, Arianne
9. 9.0 9.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard I.
10. 10.0 10.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 58, Eddard XV.
11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
12. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV.
14. 14.0 14.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 35, Eddard IX.
15. So Spake Martin: Union Square Signing , July 14, 2011
16. 16.0 16.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 35, Samwell IV.
17. 17.0 17.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 22, Tyrion VI.
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17. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 22, Tyrion VI.
18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.
19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 8, Daenerys I.
20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.
21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II.
22. So Spake Martin: To Be Continued (Chicago, IL; May 6-8) , May 06, 2005.
23. 23.0 23.1 A Clash of Kings, Prologue.
24. 24.0 24.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring.
25. 25.0 25.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 44, Jaime VI.
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