Death of Laenor Velaryon
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The death of Laenor Velaryon in 120 AC is one of the events that gave that year its name, remembered as the Red Spring for how many nobles died within the span of a few weeks.
Husband of Rhaenyra Targaryen and nominal father of her three eldest children, his end was, from the start, wrapped in conflicting accounts depending on who told it.
Death
The maesters remember 120 AC for how many nobles death claimed within a few weeks, and among them was Ser Laenor Velaryon, whom the chronicles record as murdered by Qarl Correy.
Nothing in the record explains the motive or the exact circumstances of the attack; only the name of the man responsible and the deed itself remain.
The version passed down in writing differs from the one shown on screen, where Correy himself stages the killing so that Laenor can escape alive, far from Driftmark. The atlas keeps here the chroniclers' version, noting that both accounts exist and contradict each other.
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Participants
Books and show
Where they differ
| Show | Books | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 120 AC | 120 AC |
| Place | Driftmark | Driftmark |
| Outcome | In the show Laenor does NOT die: Qarl Correy, his lover, fakes the murder, Daemon burns a guardsman’s body in his place and Laenor slips away from Driftmark in a boat with his head shaved | Laenor Velaryon dies at the hands of Qarl Correy |
| On screen | House of the Dragon · T1E7 | — |
By work
| Work | Format | Where it is told |
|---|---|---|
| House of the Dragon | Show | Death |
The chronology of events
- Doom of Valyria
- War of Conquest
- Aegon's Landing
- First Battle
- Battle of Gulltown
- Battle of the Reeds
- Wailing Willows
- Burning of Harrenhal
- Field of Fire
- Last Storm
- Coronation of Aegon I
- Submission of Torrhen Stark
- First Dornish War
- Ambush on the Boneway
- Death of Rhaenys Targaryen and Meraxes
- Great Council of 101
- Coronation of Viserys I
- Maidenpool Tourney
- Death of Aemma Arryn
- Naming of Rhaenyra as heir
- Wedding of Viserys I and Alicent Hightower
- War for the Stepstones
- Daemon Targaryen proclaims himself King of the Stepstones
- Battle of the Stepstones
- Fifth anniversary tourney
- Rhaenyra named Princess of Dragonstone
- Wedding of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Laenor Velaryon
- Wedding of Daemon Targaryen and Laena Velaryon
- Death of Laena Velaryon
- Fire at Harrenhal
- Death of Laenor Velaryon
- Aemond Targaryen claims Vhagar
- Wedding of Daemon Targaryen and Rhaenyra Targaryen
- Wedding of Aegon Targaryen and Helaena Targaryen
- Execution of Vaemond Velaryon
- Dance of the Dragons
- Death of Viserys I
- Death of Lyman Beesbury
- Coronation of Aegon II
- Coronation of Rhaenyra I
- Duel of the Cargyll twins
- 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
- and 107 more in the index