Bethany Hightower
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Bethany Hightower was the daughter of Lord Ormund Hightower, Voice of Oldtown during the reign of Viserys I Targaryen. Her name entered the kingdom's politics when, after the death of Queen Jaehaera, she was put forward as a possible wife for the young King Aegon III.
Candidate for Queen
Bethany was the daughter of Lord Ormund Hightower and his first wife, and had three brothers: Lyonel, Martyn and Garmund.
When Queen Jaehaera Targaryen died in King's Landing in 133 AC, the Hand of the King, Lord Unwin Peake, moved quickly to have his own daughter become the new wife of Aegon III, and several lords of the realm objected by proposing their own candidates. Bethany was among them: her sister-in-law, Lady Samantha Tarly, described her in a letter as a young woman "very fair, with soft skin, glossy hair, and manners exceedingly refined", but also "lazy and a bit simple". Samantha even suggested the king marry both Bethany and her own sister Sansara at once, one to rule beside him and the other for bedding and breeding. Neither of them became queen.
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The family of Bethany Hightower
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- Ormund HightowerFatherAppears in Candidate for Queen
Others in their story
- HightowerAppears in Candidate for Queen
- Aegon III TargaryenAppears in Candidate for Queen
- Jaehaera TargaryenAppears in Candidate for Queen
- Samantha TarlyAppears in Candidate for Queen
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- Books only: Candidate for Queen
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House Hightower of the Hightower
- Ceryse Hightower
- Garmon Hightower
- Manfred Hightower
- Manfred Hightower
- Morgan Hightower
- Norman Hightower
- Donnel Hightower
- Hobert Hightower
- Alicent Hightower
- Lyonel Hightower
- Bryndon Hightower
- Gwayne Hightower
- Hightower
- Ormund Hightower
- Otto Hightower
- Alerie Tyrell
- Lynesse Hightower
- Gerold Hightower
- Walys Flowers
- Addam Hightower
- Alysanne Hightower
- Baelor Hightower
- Barris Hightower
- Bethany Hightower
- Damon Hightower
- Denyse Hightower
- Dorian Hightower
- Eustace Hightower
- Garmund Hightower
- Garth Hightower
- Gunthor Hightower
- Humfrey Hightower
- Jason Hightower
- Jeremy Hightower
- Jeyne Fossoway
- Leyla Hightower
- Leyton Hightower
- Malora Hightower
- Martyn Hightower
- Martyn Hightower
- Most Devout
- Myles Hightower
- Patrice Hightower
- Peremore Hightower
- Rhonda Rowan
- Runcel Hightower
- High Septon
- Triston Hightower
- and 2 more in the index
- Wedding of Viserys I and Alicent Hightower
- Fifth anniversary tourney
- Wedding of Aegon Targaryen and Helaena Targaryen
- Dance of the Dragons
- Death of Lyman Beesbury
- Coronation of Aegon II
- Blockade of Blackwater Bay
- Battle of the Honeywine
- Fall of King's Landing
- Siege of Longtable
- Sack of Bitterbridge
- First Battle of Tumbleton
- Second Battle of Tumbleton
- Robert's Rebellion
- and 1 more in the index