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Marilda was a shipowner born in Hull, the daughter of a shipwright, who built a merchant fleet of her own out of a single shipyard. She was the mother of Addam and Alyn, two boys whose parentage was disputed during the Dance of the Dragons, and whose lives became bound to the great lords of Westeros's seas.
She was remembered as a small, quick woman, as sharp bargaining on the docks as she was at the helm; her nickname, Mouse, ended up naming the cog she used to build her fortune.
Origins
Early Life
Marilda was born in 97 AC in Hull, the daughter of a shipbuilder, and as a girl she spent more time at her father's shipyard than anywhere else. She had her first son, Addam, at sixteen, and Alyn at eighteen.
When her father died she inherited the shipyard. She sold it and used the proceeds to buy a merchant cog she named the Mouse. By 130 AC she owned seven ships, and her sons had all but grown up aboard them.
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Dragonseeds
Paternity of Addam and Alyn
When Prince Jacaerys Velaryon called for the search for dragonseeds, Marilda brought her two sons. Addam managed to mount Seasmoke; Alyn failed first with Grey Ghost and then with Sheepstealer.
There were two versions of who had fathered the boys: Marilda claimed both were sons of Ser Laenor Velaryon, and Lord Corlys accepted it without argument; the jester Mushroom suggested instead that their real father was Corlys himself, from the days when he spent time at the shipyard where Marilda's father worked. With Corlys's backing and Jacaerys's, Queen Rhaenyra legitimized Addam and Alyn as Velaryons.
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Dance of the Dragons
Transport of Aegon II
Addam and Alyn fought for the Blacks in the Dance of the Dragons. Addam fell in the second Battle of Tumbleton.
After Rhaenyra died in the fall of Dragonstone, Queen Alicent Hightower pardoned Lord Corlys, and Alyn offered to bring King Aegon II back from Dragonstone to King's Landing. Marilda herself carried the king aboard the Mouse, escorted by a dozen Velaryon galleys; according to Mushroom, Alyn wanted the city to see Aegon II arrive riding a mouse.
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Postwar
Later Years
In 132 AC, after Lord Corlys Velaryon died in King's Landing, Marilda and Alyn brought his body back to Driftmark aboard the Mermaid's Kiss; his remains were then given to the sea near Dragonstone, aboard the Sea Snake.
In 134 AC Marilda became a grandmother, when her daughter-in-law Baela gave birth to a girl named Laena Velaryon. As trade flourished during the Lysene Spring she added ships to her fleet and had a mansion built that Mushroom nicknamed the Mousetrap; two years later Alyn led a merchant fleet to Dorne and the Free Cities in command of the galley Brave Marilda.
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Relationships
People in their story
- AddamAppears in Early Life, Paternity of Addam and Alyn, Transport of Aegon II
- Corlys VelaryonAppears in Paternity of Addam and Alyn, Transport of Aegon II, Later Years
- Rhaenyra TargaryenAppears in Paternity of Addam and Alyn, Transport of Aegon II
- Jacaerys VelaryonAppears in Paternity of Addam and Alyn
- Laenor VelaryonAppears in Paternity of Addam and Alyn
- Aegon II TargaryenAppears in Transport of Aegon II
- Alicent HightowerAppears in Transport of Aegon II
- Laena VelaryonAppears in Later Years
Appearances
By work
| Work | Format | Where it is told |
|---|---|---|
| House of the Dragon | Show | — |
Books and show
Where they differ
The show and the books do not tell the same story.
- Books only: Early Life, Paternity of Addam and Alyn, Transport of Aegon II, Later Years
| Show | Books | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Unknown | Dead |
| Appears in | House of the Dragon | — |