Valarr Targaryen

Valarr was born as the firstborn son of Prince Baelor and Lady Jena Dondarrion; a younger brother, Matarys, followed later. That birth marked him as next in line behind his father toward the throne.

As an adult he married Kiera, a woman from Tyrosh. The marriage produced no living children: every child born to them came stillborn, one after another.

In 209 AC Valarr stood among the champions who opened the Ashford Meadow tourney, called by Lord Ashford's daughter. His Targaryen blood weighed heavily enough that no one dared put a truly dangerous opponent in front of him; even so, he strung together at least nine wins, including bouts against Ser Abelar Hightower and Lord Gawen Swann, and stayed unbeaten through the day's early jousts.

The tourney led into a trial by combat, the Trial of Seven, where his father Baelor fought as the seventh knight on Ser Duncan the Tall's side. Baelor had brought no armor of his own and borrowed his son's; for a moment Dunk believed Valarr himself had come to fight for him.

Baelor died in that combat. Valarr kept vigil over his body, and when Dunk came to offer his condolences, Valarr turned him away with contempt: to him, his father would have made a great king, and nothing a hedge knight said could change that.

Valarr appeared to Ser Duncan the Tall in a dream, telling him that his father Baelor would have been the finest king since Aegon the Conqueror. In time, everything pointed to him being named Hand of the King, filling the place his father had left empty.

He died during the Great Spring Sickness, only hours before his grandfather, King Daeron II Targaryen.

Some time later, passing through a village, Dunk recognized a septon who had spent three days preaching the same claim: that Bloodraven had killed Valarr's children in their mother's womb. The septon went further, hinting that Valarr's own death could be laid at the same door.

Nothing confirms that charge in what's known; it stands as a preacher's rumor, no more than that.

He resembled his father, though shorter and thinner: dark hair with a streak of gold and silver, blue eyes. In tourneys he rode a horse as black as night, wore black armor, and bore on his helm a three-headed dragon enameled in red, wings spread.

Ser Duncan the Tall judged him a decent knight, nothing more — a far cry from his father's name as the finest of his age. Even so, he was reckoned a bold man.