HOUSE TARGARYEN ♔ the nine mistresses of Aegon IV ( part I / II )
Lady Falena Stokeworth was Aegon’s first mistress. In 149 AC, she took the virginity of the fourteen year old prince. Their affair continued until a Kingsguard found them in bed together in 151 AC. Prince Viserys married her off to his master-at-arms, Lord Lucas Lothston, and convinced King Baelor I to name him as the new Lord of Harrenhal, removing Falena from court. Prince Aegon, however, went on to frequently visit Harrenhal for two more years and even after, it has been suggested, his visits continued. Merry Meg was found by Prince Aegon in 155 AC when he was in need of a smith. Megette was married to the smith, but a well placed threat and seven gold dragons “persuaded” the man to let Aegon “buy” his wife. Meg was placed in a mansion in King’s Landing and “wed” to Aegon in a secret ceremony by a mummer playing a septon. Megette birthed Aegon four daughters in four years. Prince Viserys returned her to her husband in 158 AC, who beat her to death within a year. Lady Cassella Vaith was one of the hostages of King Daeron I had accepted at the Submission of Sunspear. It was Prince Aegon who escorted the hostages back to King’s Landing. Eventually the Dornishmen revolted and killed Daeron, leading to Prince Viserys demanding Cassella returned to the other hostages, as he planned to execute them. Aegon, who by then had grown bored of her, did not resist. Cassella was returned to Dorne by the new King, Baelor I, and would live a long life, consumed by the belief that she had been Aegon’s one true love, and that he would soon send for her. Bellegere Otherys, the Black Pearl of Braavos, was the captain of the Widow Wind, whom Aegon met after having been sent as an envoy to Braavos in 161 AC. Their affair would continue for ten years, though it was said Bellegere had a husband in every port and that Aegon was but one of many. She gave birth to three children during the decade, two girls and a boy of doubtful paternity: Bellenora, Narha, and Balerion. Lady Barba Bracken was the daughter of Lord Bracken, who had been a companion to the Princesses Daena, Rhaena and Elaena in the maidenvault. She caught Aegon’s attention in 171 AC, when all were free to leave the maidenvault following King Baelor’s death. When Aegon became King a year later, Barba openly became his mistress. She gave birth to a son that same year - who later in life would be known as Bittersteel - two weeks before Queen Naerys gave birth to a daughter.
