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Aegon V Targaryen

King Aegon of House Targaryen, the Fifth Of His Name, King Of The Andals, The Rhoynar And The First Men, Lord Of The Seven Kingdoms, And Proctor Of The Realm. King Aegon was also known as Aegon the Unlikely, Aegon the Fortunate, Egg, The Prince who was an Egg, son of Maekar I Targaryen and Dyanna Dayne born in 200 AC. King Aegon V Targaryen married Betha Blackwood and together they had five children, Duncan Targaryen, Jaehaerys II Targaryen, Shaera Targaryen, Daeron Targaryen, Rhaelle Targaryen. King Aegon V died when trying to hatch a dragon egg in 259AC, he was 59 years of age.

Early life: Aegon was born the fourth son and fifth child of Prince Maekar Targaryen and his wife, Dyanna Dayne. Aegon served at court in King's Landing for two years as a page, sometimes attending to the small council. Aegon owned a dragon egg, which was colored with green and white swirls and had been placed in his cradle with him when he was a babe. Aegon and his elder brother, Prince Aemon, hoped their eggs would hatch so they could become Dragonriders. Aegon kept his egg at Summerhall. The brothers recreated the Battle of the Redgrass Field with painted soldiers on Maester Melaquin's table.

Aegon loathed his brother, the cruel and sadistic Aerion, who threw Aegon's pet cat down a well. Aerion once visited Aegon in his bedroom during the dead of night, put a knife to Aegon's privates, and joked about removing his genitals so he would become a girl whom Aerion could marry. Once Aegon's sister Rhae slipped a love potion into his drink so that he would marry her and not their sister Daella, to whom he might have been betrothed. Aegon did not wish to marry, instead dreaming of becoming a knight of the Kingsguard, who are sworn not to wed.

Tourney at Ashford Meadow: Aegon was supposed to squire for his eldest brother, Daeron, in the tourney at Ashford Meadow, but Daeron had no interest in jousting and instead drank himself into a stupor at an inn. Daeron shaved Aegon's head to prevent the boy's distinctive Targaryen hair from being recognized by men sent by their father, Prince Maekar. When the hedge knight Dunk visited the inn, he assumed Aegon was a stableboy. Calling himself "Egg", the disguised Aegon assumed that Dunk was short for "Duncan", which Dunk accepted. Aegon was impressed by the humble hedge knight and followed him. Ser Duncan the Tall agreed to let Egg serve as his squire during the tourney.

Duncan was arrested and sentenced to fight a trial by battle after attacking Egg's elder brother, Prince Aerion Targaryen. Because the battle was to be a Trial of Seven, Aegon convinced Ser Lyonel Baratheon to fight on behalf of Duncan. Aegon's uncle, Prince Baelor Breakspear, also fought alongside Duncan during the trial, but Baelor died of a wound inflicted by Prince Maekar, Baelor's brother and Aegon's father, who had fought on behalf of Aerion and House Targaryen.

Maekar, the Prince of Summerhall, wished Aegon to be trained as a knight, but Aegon would only agree if Duncan were the knight who trained him. When Maekar offered Duncan a place at the garrison of Summerhall, Dunk declined and agreed to take Aegon on only if Aegon accompanied him as his squire. Aegon would live humbly, but Duncan thought it would make Aegon a better man than his brothers, Aerion and Daeron. Thus, Aegon served as a squire to Duncan under his nickname "Egg".

Squire: Aegon kept his identity secret from the public while squiring for Duncan, and he kept hidden in his boot a signet ring from his father, Maekar Targaryen, Prince of Summerhall. While escorting merchants in Dorne from the Prince's Pass to Vaith, Chestnut died while Egg was on the horse's back. The pair traveled aboard a poleboat on the Greenblood toward the Planky Town, and during the journey, orphan girls rubbed Aegon's head for luck. Dunk and Egg then sailed on White Lady to Oldtown, where Aegon received the mule Maester, a gift from his brother, Maester Aemon.

A little less than two years after Ashford Meadow, Aegon, and Duncan served Ser Eustace Osgrey of Standfast during his conflict with Rohanne Webber, Lady of Coldmoat, over the Chequy Water. At Coldmoat, Egg verified for the illiterate Dunk that a royal parchment from King Daeron II Targaryen had granted the stream to Lord Wyman Webber. When Rohanne demanded that Eustace turn over Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield, Duncan showed Aegon's signet ring to her in an unsuccessful attempt to avert hostilities. After Duncan slew Ser Lucas Inchfield in a trial by battle, Aegon pulled Duncan from the stream and protected the wounded hedge knight during his recovery. Eustace and Rohanne chose to wed to end their conflict, and Egg attended Eustace during the wedding feast. Rohanne gifted Aegon with a sorrel palfrey which he named Rain.