Death of Rhaenyra Targaryen
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The death of Rhaenyra Targaryen at Dragonstone ended the reign of the first woman to sit the Iron Throne of Westeros. Captured after the castle fell, the queen was handed over to the dragon of her half-brother and rival, Aegon II, in front of her own son.
Her death stood as one of the final, and cruellest, episodes of the Dance of the Dragons.
Capture of Dragonstone
When Aegon II's men reached Dragonstone, the castle fell quickly. Alfred Broome killed the castellan, Robert Quince, and seized control of the fortress.
Rhaenyra's guards tried to hold them off: Ser Harrold Darke, Ser Adrian Redfort and Ser Loreth Lansdale died defending their queen, but they could not prevent her capture.
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Death
Rhaenyra was brought before Aegon II, who handed her over to his dragon, Sunfyre. In front of her eldest surviving son, the queen died devoured by the beast, in the tenth moon of the year.
Sunfyre did not come away unscathed: the wounds suffered that same day would kill it soon after.
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Participants
Sides
the Greens
the Blacks
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Who was there
- Rhaenyra TargaryenPrincessAppears in Capture of Dragonstone, Death
- Aegon II TargaryenPrinceAppears in Death
- Aegon III TargaryenPrince
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The chronology of events
- 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
- Coronation of Robert I
- Confrontation at the Tower of Joy
- Assault on Dragonstone
- Sack of Lannisport
- Siege of Pyke
- Battle of Seagard
- and 107 more in the index