Death of Helaena Targaryen
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The death of Helaena Targaryen was the princess's suicide in King's Landing, in the year 130 after the Conquest, in the midst of the Dance of the Dragons.
Suicide of Helaena
The suicide took place in King's Landing in the year 130, with the city under Rhaenyra Targaryen's rule. Helaena, trapped in the enemy capital, took her own life.
Her death did not stay a private matter: word of it spread through the streets and lit a revolt of the common folk against Rhaenyra's government in the city.
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| Show | Books | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 132 AC | 130 AC |
| Place | King's Landing | King's Landing |
| Outcome | The queen, Rhaenyra’s prisoner, takes her own life: she throws herself from her window in the Red Keep | The queen takes her own life · it sets off the rising of the smallfolk |
| On screen | House of the Dragon · T3E8 | — |
- Books only: Suicide of Helaena
The chronology of events
Events
- Blockade of Blackwater Bay
- Jacaerys Velaryon's mission to White Harbor
- Pact of Ice and Fire
- Death of Lucerys Velaryon
- Blood and Cheese
- March of the Winter Wolves
- Capture of Harrenhal
- Battle of the Burning Mill
- Capture of Stone Hedge
- Sack of Duskendale
- 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
- and 107 more in the index