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Jaehaerys I Targaryen

King Jaehaerys was also known as Prince Jaehaerys, The Conciliator, The Wise, and The Old King, he was the third son of Aenys Targaryen and Alyssa Targaryen born in the year 34 AC. King Jaehaerys was known to have the dragon Vermithor, he was Vermithor's first dragon rider. King Jaehaerys married his sister Alysanne Targaryen. Together they had twelve children. Daenerys Targaryen, Aemon Targaryen, Baelon Targaryen, Alyssa Targaryen, Maegelle Targaryen, Vaegon Targaryen, Daella Targaryen, Saera Targaryen, Viserra Targaryen, Baby Gaemon Targaryen who died at one moon old, Baby Valerian Targaryen who died at one day old, and Gael Targaryen. King Jaehaerys died of old age in his bed in the year 103 AC, he was 69 years of age.

Early Life: Jaehaerys was the third son and fourth child of Prince Aenys Targaryen and his wife Lady Alyssa Velaryon. He was born on the twentieth day of the ninth moon of 34 AC in King's Landing. He had two older brothers, Aegon and Viserys, an older sister Rhaena, and two younger sisters, Alysanne and Vaella. His sister Rhaena placed a dragon egg in his cradle after his birth, from which Jaehaerys' dragon, Vermithor, would eventually hatch. When his grandfather, King Aegon I Targaryen, died on Dragonstone in 37 AC his father, Aenys, ascended the Iron Throne.

Followers of the Faith of the Seven began an uprising after King Aenys I married Jaehaerys' two eldest siblings, Rhaena and Aegon, to one another in 41 AC. After the poor fellows scaled the walls of the Red Keep in an attempt to murder the royal family, Jaehaerys fled with his parents and siblings to Dragonstone. By the end of the year most of the realm had joined the side of the Faith, and King Aerys, unable to decide how to deal with the rebels, fell ill. In 42 AC, he collapsed upon learning that Rhaena and Aegon were besieged at Crakehall, and died three days later.

The Reign of Maegor: Jaehaerys was on Dragonstone for his father's cremation. Within hours, Dowager Queen Alyssa fled to Driftmark, her father's seat, with Jaehaerys and Alysanne. Meanwhile, Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen flew to Pentos to retrieve her son Maegor from his exile. Once back at Dragonstone, Maegor claimed the Iron Throne for his own, ignoring the claim of Jaehaerys' oldest brother Aegon.

Later that year, following a visit from Visenya on Vhagar, Alyssa brought Jaehaerys, his sister Alysanne, and his brother Viserys to King's Landing, where they witnessed the wedding of King Maegor and Tyanna of the Tower. By 44 AC, Jaehaerys, Alysanne, and their mother resided on Dragonstone as the hostages of Dowager Queen Visnenya. In the chaos following Visenya's death of natural causes that year, Jaehaerys, his sister Alysannne, and his mother Alyssa fled the island. In retaliation, King Maegor had Jaehaerys' brother Viserys, who resided at King's Landing, tortured to death. As Jaehaerys' eldest brother, Aegon, had been killed by Maegor in battle the previous year, Jaehaerys became the oldest living son of the late King Aenys I as a result.

In 47 AC, Maegor forced three widows of proven fertility to marry him in one ceremony. One of these Black Brides was Jaehaerys' eldest sister, Rhaena. Still, without a child of his own, Maegor officially disinherited Jaehaerys and proclaimed Rhaena's daughter Aerea as his heir. However, the realm slowly turned against Maegor, and when Jaehaerys put forward his claim for the throne he unified the factions that opposed Maegor. The first great lord to openly proclaim for Jaehaerys was his second cousin, Lord Roger Baratheon of Storm's End. Other great houses followed, including House Lannister, House Tyrell, House Arryn, and, although they had originally joined Maegor against Prince Aegon, House Tully. Rhaena, Jaehaerys' sister, fled from Maegor on her dragon after learning about Jaehaerys' claim, stealing the Valyrian steel sword Blackfyre from him in the process. Two of Maegor's Kingsgurad knights, Ser Olyver Bracken and Ser Raymund Mallery joined Jaehaerys too.

The Ascension of Jaehaerys: In 48 AC, following Maegor's mysterious death, Jaehaerys arrived in King's Landing upon Vermithor, ahead of Lord Roger Baratheon's army.