Boremund Baratheon

Boremund was born in Storm's End in 52 AC, the son of Lord Rogar Baratheon and Alyssa Velaryon, the dowager queen who had once been wed to Aenys I and was mother to Kings Jaehaerys I and Alysanne. Alyssa was no longer young, and the boy arrived so strong and loud that his cries were said to carry from Dorne to the Wall; the court took it for a miracle, and the High Septon himself blessed the birth as a sign from the gods.

Two years later his sister Jocelyn was born, but the birth cost Alyssa her life. Boremund was still a babe in arms when his half-sister Rhaena, dowager queen after Aenys I's death, arrived at Storm's End and threatened to kill Rogar if he ever remarried; the boy sat on his father's lap through it all. Later he joined Rogar and Jocelyn at the tourney marking the tenth anniversary of the king's coronation, and in 59 AC he and his sister both survived the sickness known as the Shivers as it swept the Seven Kingdoms.

Boremund's birth had soured the relationship between Rogar and his uncle Borys, who had until then expected to inherit Storm's End. Borys eventually left the stormlands and, in 61 AC, threw in with the Vulture King in the Red Mountains. Fearing for his son's future, Rogar asked King Jaehaerys I to watch over him and sent Jocelyn and their cousins to King's Landing as wards. Half a year after Rogar fought alongside Jaehaerys in the Third Dornish War, he died at Storm's End with Boremund at his side; in 62 AC the boy became Lord of Storm's End.

Around 80 AC, still unwed, Boremund was named by Queen Alysanne Targaryen as one of three candidates to marry her daughter, Princess Daella. Daella married Lord Rodrik Arryn instead, and Boremund in time found a wife of his own and had a son, Borros, who would later succeed him.

King Jaehaerys I and Boremund learned half a year in advance that the Dornish prince Morion Martell meant to land at the Cape of Wrath and invade the stormlands. When Morion's fleet finally sailed in 83 AC, Boremund was waiting for him at the cape with his army, but the dragons of Jaehaerys and his children burned the Dornish ships before they could make landfall.

In 92 AC Boremund sailed to Tarth to join Lord Cameron Tarth against a raid by Myrish pirates. Prince Aemon died during that campaign, and it was his brother Baelon, riding Vhagar, who helped Boremund finish driving the pirates from the island.

With Aemon dead, Jaehaerys I named his second son Baelon his heir, passing over Aemon's daughter, Princess Rhaenys, Boremund's niece. Both Boremund and his sister Jocelyn openly opposed the choice.

When the Great Council of 101 AC was called to settle the succession, Boremund threw his support behind Rhaenys and her young son, Laenor Velaryon. The council instead named Viserys, Baelon's son, as heir.

In 115 AC, when Lady Rhea Royce died, word reached Storm's End by raven. Boremund, by then an old man, sent a messenger by ship to Dragonstone so that Prince Daemon Targaryen would learn of it.

Boremund died of old age before the Dance of the Dragons broke out, never living to see the war that would divide Jaehaerys I's descendants.

Years after Boremund's death, when the crown fell into dispute following Viserys I's own death, many assumed Storm's End would back Queen Rhaenyra, remembering how firmly Boremund had always stood behind his aunt Rhaenys. His son, Lord Borros, instead threw his support behind King Aegon II.