Death of Viserys I
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Viserys I Targaryen, the fifth Targaryen king, died in his sleep in King's Landing on the third day of the third moon of 129 AC.
His death left the question of who would inherit the Iron Throne wide open, a dispute his own children had been carrying for years and one that broke out the moment word spread that the king would not wake.
Death
King Viserys I Targaryen died in his sleep in King's Landing on the third day of the third moon of 129 AC. Queen Alicent Hightower is tied by the sources to those final hours, though no further detail of that night survives.
His death immediately opened the dispute over the Iron Throne among the children he left behind, and it set off the Dance of the Dragons, the civil war that would pit House Targaryen against itself.
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Participants
Who was there
- Viserys I TargaryenPrince of DragonstoneAppears in Death
- Alicent HightowerQueen consort
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Books and show
The show and the books
| Show | Books | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 129 AC | 129 AC · day 3 of moon 3 |
| Place | King's Landing | King's Landing |
| Outcome | The king dies in his sleep on the third day of the third moon of 129 | El rey muere en sueños el tercer día de la tercera luna de 129 |
| On screen | House of the Dragon · T1E8 | — |
By work
| Work | Format | Where it is told |
|---|---|---|
| House of the Dragon | Show | Death |
The chronology of events
- 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
- 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
- and 107 more in the index