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Lineage of House Targaryen from the Doom to Daena's death

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I did the thing I said I would do. Which is that I figured out the missing generations between Gaemon III and Viserion III for my alternate universe House Targaryen.

And holy shit! Is that thing enormous! I had to split it into two parts just so it all fit.

Version: 08-07-2026

Anyway, here is the probably maybe definitely final version of the House Targaryen as Daena remembers it.

If I ever do more parts, they will have to be on a separate family tree, because Gaemon IV had six wives and about two dozen children from all of them. The only reason there wasn't a succession war after his death between various lines was because his eldest and heir was a daughter, Gael II, who took a brother from each mother as a husband and then thoroughly obfuscated the paternity of all her children.

I know you are probably wondering what do the colours mean.

Well, if somebody's name is on black field with red border, they are recognised as a member of the main line of the House Targaryen. There's a lot of stuff connected to it but the gist is that they can use the Imperial Sigil on their banner (aka the canon three-headed red dragon on black) in addition to their personal sigil. All of them are either the ruling Emperor/Empress or a Prince/Princess of the senior line.

If there's also a red star, they were the reigning Emperor/Empress at some point or are the heir apparent. Of course, if somebody died before their parent, such as Viserys, I didn't bother marking them.

A black field with colourful border means that they are a branch of Imperial House but are not landed. So they use the Imperial Sigil with a border of a different colour, but their House words are the same and they remain subordinate to the current head of House Targaryen. Meaning, the Emperor/Empress. Generally, only the younger sons of the current monarch get to create their own branches, though that will probably change after Daena's reforms.

Branch members receive a generous allowance, the exact amount depending on their degree of relation in straight line to an Emperor/Empress. Meaning, if they are a child, a grandchild, a great-grandchild and so on. In addition to the head of the branch receiving some properties such as vineyards, lumber farms, merchant houses, mills and so on, from which they can receive part of the profits.

Younger sons of the current monarch are generally granted the right to reside in certain royal properties for the entirety of their life. This is not hereditary, so their own children will have to find their own place to live, unless they are favoured by the next monarch and allowed to stay. Alternatively, they might buy, build or be gifted a residence somewhere in the empire, but it is explicitly not a feudal fief and they do not have the right to gather taxes from it.

A field of different colour is for those who started their own cadet Houses. They have their own House colours, sigil - a dragon with only one head - and words. The founders might be Princes/Princesses (though not always) but their new House and their eventual descendants would hold a rank of Grand Duke (or Duchess). Those Houses are usually in charge of their own Province somewhere in the empire, though some Houses rule smaller territories, and their heads have the right to rule it as a feudal fief.

People with the white star are those who are or were Heads of their House or are in line to inherit everything.

For other symbols, black crescent moon is for Night Watch and white circle/full moon is for those who joined Faith or other such religious organisation. Sometimes of course, they joined under duress.

The trivia and close-ups of the family tree go under the cut because there's a lot of it.

60BD - 20AD

Aemon and Shaena’s, and Daeron and Aeria’s double marriage was because both women had bonded dragons already and their respective lines weren’t willing to marry them out without getting another dragonrider in a recompense.

Gael wife of Aenar was not her parents' only daughter but her elder sister married their brother. She also had some younger siblings.

All of them died in the Doom.

Daenys and Gaemon’s eleven children were partially because Daenys very much wanted to be a mother and partially out of practicality.

After all, they were the only dragonlords left so their descendants would have to marry each other or their Valyrian vassals. And there’s no guarantee that each generation would have a sister to marry to her brother. Hence, many children so there are cousin aplenty in a pinch.

They could have married their children to members of Velaryons, Celtigars, Qoherys, Baratheon and other such. There were people with the correct heritage and near enough in age.

But the planned conquest meant Gaemon and Daenys wanted as many dragonriders as possible. And no dragonrider woman is allowed to marry out of the House Targaryen. Ever.

Those of the children who were married, deliberately waited with having their own children until a lull in the Conquest.

The first grandchildren were not born until after Stormlands, Dorne and Stepstones were conquered and stabilised.

Rhaenyra and Aelora were a bit of a surprise; the result of celebrating the first phase of the Conquest.

21AD - 80AD

Rhaella and Valarr’s descendants through their three children mostly exchanged brides with each other, with their cousins from Rhaegar and Aeria’s line through their son Aegor and, sometimes, with descendants of Aegon and Elena through the line of Maegon’s son Maegor.

There have been quiet but persistent rumours that Rhaenyra and Aelora switched places with each other right before they were sent to foster with their different siblings.

The rumours started because the girls’ personalities were noticeably changed after their fostering and in fact resembled their twin from before the fostering.

(That was absolutely true)

(Rhaenyra was very vivacious and energetic but had very little patience for the scheming necessary in the court. She didn’t really want to be an Empress. Later on, she came to greatly prefer Daeron to his brother too.)

(Aelora in turn, thrived on scheming and court politics, and loved all the diplomatic duties expected of a future Empress.)

Visenya and Baelon having only Bael was because of their incompatible orientations. She was a lesbian and he was asexual and aromantic. Visenya eventually got her brother to give her a single child on the condition he won’t have to be involved in raising the result.

There might have been magic involved in the conception too.

Viserra was originally supposed to marry her cousin Bael. But he didn't really want to marry and preferred to travel the world. So he avoided Westeros for months at time until his family had enough and dissolved the betrothal.

Aenar and Naerys just didn’t get along, hence why Saera was their only child.

Daena daughter of Aerion was originally supposed to marry her cousin Prince Vaemond. But when he died in infancy, her parents decided she would marry her brother instead of any other relative.

Daena had a bad fall when she was pregnant, leading to Viserys being born early. It also indirectly led to her death, because her irregular periods and abdominal pains were mistaken for aftereffects of the complicated birth instead of being recognised as symptoms of cancer.

As a result of his early birth, Viserys was sickly child even after bonding a dragon. He died of pneumonia during a harsh winter.

Aeria's remarriage after Viserys' death was due to her wanting to strengthen her daughter's position and claim. There were people vying for her hand and she feared they would try to wrestle control over Gael I from her.

Hence, Aeria marrying her brother Aerys and betrothing Gael I to his son Daeron.

81AD - 130AD

Baelor and Naerys were supposed to wed each other. However, he was madly in love with his twin sister Aelora.

They eloped just three months before his planned wedding to Naerys, to the great scandal and much consternation.

After the failed wedding with Baelor, Naerys snagged herself a love match with a Velaryon.

Did Daena and Aemon of Runestone branch had Aelinor only to replace Shaena as Aegon's prospective bride?

Yes.

As you can imagine, it did not make their eventual marriage very warm.

At least Aemma, the younger twin, had a reasonably happy marriage with her Lyseni husband.

It was Princess Daenerys’ choice to marry her youngest brother Aemon after the death of her first brother-husband Rhaekar. While she could have stayed unmarried as a widow, she wanted to have children and that required a husband.

Baela and Aegon I bonded over their love of dragonflight and exploring. In fact, they left Westeros soon after their wedding and didn’t come back for years.

Gaemon III was born on Jhala in Summer Islands archipelago.

When Aegon I became the Emperor, his sister Daenerys had to act as the regent while Aemon fetched their brother and his family from Sothoryos.

The spate of deaths in 127AD was a result of a poisoning attempt on the Imperial Family. The perpetrators turned out to be Lyseni.

And that's how Rhaellion and Viserra got a domain for their own House.

Considering three of their children along with two sisters, a cousin and four niblings died in the poisoning, they weren't exactly very appreciative of the fact.

131AD - 190AD

As two of Aegon I's brothers were dead and Daenerys and Aemon had no sons, his younger daughters married their maternal cousins.

Because Bael and Gael only have the twin daughters, it was Baela who inherited her father's title and ruled in her own right.

Gaemon III's second marriage caused an enormous scandal.

Both because of Daenora's age and due to the fact she was practically at the bottom of the succession line, being a descendant of Rhaegar and Aeria of the Conquest and a member of the Runestone branch of House Targaryen.

Gaemon III and Daenora met at his daughter Viserra's wedding.

They courted while Daenora was the lady-in-waiting for Princess Aemma.

Princess Viserra married Daenora's cousin once removed, by the way. Aegor is the grandson of Daenora's eldest uncle.

Aeria and Rhaenys were married to their nephews largely due to the machinations of their mother.

Suprisingly, Maekar I and Aeria's marriage turned out to be very loving.

Baelor I was absolutely a suprise baby.

Rhaenys and Aegon's marriage was less well matched.

It's said that Aegon married Rhaenys out of duty and his sister Daena out of love.

191AD - 250AD

Aenar I died only a couple of weeks after his father. He didn't even get crowned.

His coronation ceremony was instead repurposed for Maekar I.

Valaena was not originally slated to marry Baelor I.

Initially, her betrothed was a second cousin from Baela and Daeron's branch of the family.

After Daeron's died without children, the betrothal was dissolved and she was maried to Daeron's brother Baelor I to preserve the alliance between their fathers.

Aeria suspected that her husband Daeron might be sterile.

She knew for sure after she became pregnant with Valarr's child within weeks of the wedding.

Daenora, Aelora and Maegara were allowed to choose their husbands due to their low place in the succession.

Daeron met Vaella Velaryon when she came to court to be Gael's lady-in-waiting.

Aelinor wanted to be Aenar II's sister-wife and empress. She became very bitter when their cousin Larissa was the one who won his hand and not she.

Kiera Targaryen is from a Stepstones branch of House Targaryen and very distant from the throne.

Aethan met her during his journeys since he took after his Velaryon mother and loved sailing.

He married rather late in life compared to his sisters.

251AD - 300AD

Kiera was not originally the heir to her House.

However, her two eldest brothers died fighting for Daena while still childless. Her third brother died with his sister-wife and their children in 274AD in a shipwreck.

At the time, Daena already promised to give her uncle Aethan the Province of Lys, so Gaemon and Shiera were granted those lands after his death and Kiera was their regent.

Hence why it's her second son and the younger daughters who inherited her House name and colours.

If Aethan's son Gaemon wasn’t a decade younger than Daena, she would have taken him for her fourth husband, since he was her second cousin through their respective senior lines and thus a potential rival claimant.

The reason Daena could have granted lands to so many branches is that certain noble houses were attained or outright killed for supporting her uncle's rebellion. So their lands were granted to Daena's cousins or kept for her younger sons.

Among those killed outright were the Houses descended from Aegon and Elaena on Iron Islands and Cape Kraken, and from Rhaegar and Aeria in Runestone.

Another one was the House of Rhaellion and Viserra in Lys.

Jaenaera was her parents eldest daughter, after them already having three sons.

If she was born earlier, she would have likely been married to Gaemon instead. As it is, she was married to his younger brother and Gaemon married his sister Gael.

Gael and Rhaella aren't identical twins.

In fact, they might have different biological fathers.

301AD - onwards

Daeron and Jaenaera only had four sons.

Their lack of a daughter is why Maekar was married to Rhaenyra, despite her being only a Lady and not a Princess, and his cousin through the female line and so lower in the succession.

In turn, Gaemon and Gael’s younger daughter married Daeron’s eldest son to tie their lines together that way.

Daenerys and Valar, Maekar and Rhaenyra, and Viserra and Baelon were all married in the same ceremony.

Viserion IV and Baela are genetically paternal half-siblings.

They were born on the same day, within hours of each other.

Maelor and Maegara had five children. There's another son between Daeron and Daenerys, and two younger daughters after her.

Daena changed the Succession Laws after the birth of Rhaenor to absolute primogeniture.

However, the new succession only applies to the Imperial House, not to any cadet houses.

Rhaenor died less than six months after his grandmother.

Princess Aelinor, Princess Daena and Princess Gael are the only wives of Gaemon IV who were already born by the time of Daena's death.

His other three wives would be: Jaehaera, daughter of Grand Duke Aurion Targaryen and Princess Visenya Targaryen, born in 333AD; Rhaenys, daughter of Grand Duke Rhaegar Targaryen and Duchess Saera Targaryen, born in 337AD; and Kiera, daughter of Grand Duke Aenar Targaryen and Lady Laena Velaryon, born in 241AD

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