Execution of Rickard and Brandon Stark
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In 282 AC, King Aerys II Targaryen had Lord Rickard Stark and his eldest son Brandon put to death in King's Landing. The order followed Lyanna Stark's disappearance alongside Prince Rhaegar and helped light the war that would end House Targaryen's hold on the Iron Throne.
Father and son reached the capital by different roads — one summoned like many other lords, the other searching for news of his sister. Neither left alive.
Capture of the Starks
Brandon Stark was riding to Riverrun to marry Catelyn Tully when word reached him that his sister Lyanna had vanished together with Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. He turned for King's Landing instead, demanding answers.
There he and the men riding with him were seized on the crown's orders. Not long after, Lord Rickard Stark himself was summoned to the capital along with roughly two hundred other lords and their sons, none of them told why.
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Executions
Rickard Stark was burned alive on Aerys's orders, and his son Brandon was strangled on the same command. Elbert Arryn was executed that same day.
Aerys then demanded that Jon Arryn send him the heads of the two wards in his household, Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon. Arryn refused and called his own bannermen to arms instead — the spark that set off Robert's Rebellion.
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Participants
Who was there
- Aerys II TargaryenPrince of DragonstoneAppears in Executions
- Elbert ArrynSerAppears in Executions
No entry in the atlas: Rickard Stark † · Brandon Stark †
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Others in the account
- Brandon StarkAppears in Capture of the Starks, Executions
- Rickard StarkAppears in Capture of the Starks, Executions
- Catelyn StarkAppears in Capture of the Starks
- Lyanna StarkAppears in Capture of the Starks
- Rhaegar TargaryenAppears in Capture of the Starks
- Jon ArrynAppears in Executions
- Eddard StarkAppears in Executions
- BaratheonAppears in Executions
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The chronology of events
- 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
- Battle at the Mummer's Ford
- Battle of Riverrun
- Death of Robert I
- Coronation of Joffrey I
- Execution of Eddard Stark
- Wedding of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo
- Death of Viserys Targaryen
- Death of Khal Drogo and birth of the dragons
- Battle of the Green Fork
- Battle of the Whispering Wood
- Battle of the Camps
- Robb Stark proclaimed King in the North
- and 107 more in the index