Death of Aegon II
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The death of Aegon II Targaryen in King's Landing brings the Dance of the Dragons to an end, the civil war that had split House Targaryen over the Iron Throne. The king lasts barely half a year back on the throne before dying poisoned, and no one ever establishes with certainty who did it.
Death
Aegon II returns to the Iron Throne as the Dance of the Dragons draws to a close, but he does not last a year in the seat: he dies poisoned in King's Landing.
The case is never solved. Twenty-two people are arrested over the regicide and no chronicle names a culprit. Larys Strong is among the suspects, but nothing confirms him as the one who poisoned the king.
He is succeeded by his nephew Aegon, Rhaenyra's eldest son, crowned as Aegon III. With him the civil war closes in peace.
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Participants
Who was there
- Aegon II TargaryenPrinceAppears in Death
- Larys StrongLord of HarrenhalAppears in Death
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The chronology of events
- Battle at Rook's Rest
- Sowing of the Seeds
- Capture of the Gay Abandon
- Battle of the Gullet
- Battle of the Honeywine
- Fall of King's Landing
- Dalton Greyjoy's raids on the Westerlands
- Battle by the Lakeshore
- Ambush at Crossed Elms
- Butcher's Ball
- Battle of the Red Fork
- Battle of Acorn Hall
- Siege of Longtable
- Sack of Bitterbridge
- First Battle of Tumbleton
- Arrest of Addam Velaryon and imprisonment of Corlys Velaryon
- Fall of Dragonstone
- Taking of Maidenpool by Daemon Targaryen
- Aemond Targaryen's reprisals in the Riverlands
- Battle Above the Gods Eye
- Death of Helaena Targaryen
- King's Landing Riots
- Storming of the Dragonpit
- Rhaenyra's flight to Duskendale
- Second Battle of Tumbleton
- Retaking of Rook's Rest
- Death of Rhaenyra Targaryen
- Moon of the Three Kings
- Borros Baratheon's seizure of King's Landing
- Battle of the Kingsroad
- Death of Aegon II
- Wedding of Aegon III and Jaehaera Targaryen
- Coronation of Aegon III
- Hour of the Wolf
- Battle of the Redgrass Field
- Ashford Tourney
- Trial of Seven at Ashford
- Great Spring Sickness
- Coronation of Aerys I
- Tragedy at Summerhall
- Tourney at Harrenhal
- Robert's Rebellion
- Execution of Rickard and Brandon Stark
- Battle of Gulltown (Robert's Rebellion)
- Battle of Summerhall
- Battle of Ashford
- Siege of Storm's End
- Battle of the Bells
- Battle of the Trident
- Battle of the Mander
- Sack of King's Landing
- Coronation of Robert I
- Confrontation at the Tower of Joy
- Assault on Dragonstone
- Sack of Lannisport
- Siege of Pyke
- Battle of Seagard
- Battle of Fair Isle
- War of the Five Kings
- Hand's Tourney
- Battle of the Golden Tooth
- and 107 more in the index