Aelinor Penrose
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Aelinor Penrose was queen of the Seven Kingdoms as the wife of King Aerys I Targaryen, a marriage remembered chiefly for its lack of an heir.
Her case tested the custom of setting aside a childless queen, a custom the king himself refused to follow.
Marriage to Aerys
Aelinor was Aerys Targaryen's cousin when the two married. Aerys, though, refused to share her bed, and word soon spread that the marriage had never been consummated. The years passed without any child being born.
Every day she went to the Great Sept of Baelor to beg the Mother for a child.
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Pressure from the Small Council
When Aerys was made king of the Seven Kingdoms, his Privy Council blamed the lack of an heir on his distaste for Aelinor and urged him to set her aside and take another wife. The king ignored his councillors and kept the marriage.
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Parents
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Family
- Aerys I TargaryenSpousesAppears in Marriage to Aerys, Pressure from the Small Council
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- PenroseAppears in Marriage to Aerys
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Where they differ
- Books only: Marriage to Aerys, Pressure from the Small Council
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