Assassination of Dalton Greyjoy

"The Iron Throne commanded the Red Kraken to stop reaving and when he didn't, a mistress opened his throat as he slept."

- Euron Greyjoy

The Assassination of Dalton Greyjoy took place after the end of Targaryen civil war as an attempt by the Regency of the Seven Kingdoms to stop the riots of the Iron Sons in the Sunset Sea.

In the books
For the better part of two years, the Red Kraken ruled the Sunset Sea like the driftwood kings of antiquity.The regency of Aegon III commanded Dalton to cease his raiding, but the Red Kraken ignored them.

While sleeping in Lord Farman's bedchamber at Faircastle, Dalton was killed when the girl Tess cut his throat with his own dagger before throwing herself into the sea. As the Red Kraken had never taken a rock wife, his closest heirs were his young salt sons, and within hours a bloody struggle for succession broke out among the ironborn.