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- "Once in a long while, you may get two real highborn shits having a go at each other and one of them might be fool enough to demand a Trial by Seven. Exactly how it sounds: seven men against seven men. Makes for a good show, but any man who has been in battle knows that the more men involved, the less skill needed, the more chance of accidents. Just ask that Targaryen prince who got his head staved in by his brother all those years ago, and all for some hedge knight."
- ―Bronn
Prince Baelor Targaryen, called Breakspear, was the firstborn son and heir of King Daeron II Targaryen, and served as his Hand during the latter years of his reign.
Biography[]
Background[]
Prince Baelor was the eldest son of King Daeron II Targaryen and Queen Myriah Martell. He was the brother of Aerys, Rhaegel, Maekar and Aelinor.[citation needed]
He was killed when his brother Maekar staved his head in during the trial by seven of Duncan the Tall.[1]Had Baelor survived the trial then he would have succeeded his father and reigned as King Baelor II.
Game of Thrones: Season 1[]
Prince Baelor, along with his family, is mentioned in House Targaryen's entry of the book The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms.[2]
Game of Thrones: Season 8[]
Baelor is mentioned under Ser Duncan the Tall's entry, in the Book of Brothers, which the new Lord Commander of the Kingsguard Brienne of Tarth flicks through. The book states Prince Aerion Targaryen had a hand in his death.[3]
Family[]
Daemon I Blackfyre Deceased |
Rohanne of Tyrosh Deceased |
Daeron II Targaryen Deceased |
Myriah Martell Deceased |
Maron Martell Deceased |
Daenerys Targaryen Deceased | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Descendants Male line extinct |
Baelor Targaryen Deceased |
Aerys I Targaryen Deceased |
Aelinor Targaryen Deceased |
Rhaegel Targaryen Deceased |
Maekar I Targaryen Deceased |
Dyanna Dayne Deceased |
Son | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daeron Targaryen Deceased |
Aerion Targaryen Deceased |
Aemon Targaryen Deceased |
Aegon V Targaryen Deceased |
Betha Blackwood[a] Deceased | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the books[]
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Prince Baelor was the eldest son of King Daeron the Good and Queen Myriah, and named after Baelor I. He had the dark hair of his mother, Queen Myriah, which he kept cut short and kept his jaw clean-shaven. His nose had been broken twice. He was known as "Baelor Breakspear" and was the father of Princes Valarr and Matarys Targaryen.
When the Blackfyre Rebellion was in its early stages, Prince Baelor advocated leniency toward his bastard uncle Daemon I Blackfyre, a position that was rejected in favor of his other bastard uncle Brynden Rivers's more hard line approach. Nonetheless, Baelor accepted the path towards war and distinguished himself by leading the Dornish-Stormlander force that attacked the rearguard of the rebel army during the Battle of the Redgrass Field, smashing them against the shield-wall of his brother, Prince Maekar, and inspiring the song The Hammer and Anvil. After the battle, he was named Hand of the King by his father. At some point he was also given the title of Protector of the Realm.
While participating in a rare trial by seven, Baelor's youngest brother Maekar accidentally dealt him a severe blow to the head with his mace. Baelor had entered the trial wearing his son's lighter armor, which didn't fit properly and thus wasn't able to provide appropriate protection. Maekar had not meant to harm Baelor, and the latter seemed fine at first, acknowledging that it was an accident. Soon, however, Prince Baelor began behaving drunkenly, and it's revealed that he had a severe concussion from which he died in a matter of hours. The guilt of accidentally killing his own brother haunted Maekar for the rest of his life.
When he died, his son Valarr became heir-apparent to the Iron Throne, but he and his younger brother Matarys both died during the Great Spring Sickness only hours before Daeron II. This lead to Daeron II to be succeeded by his second son, Aerys I.
Gallery[]
Appearances[]
- – "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" (mentioned in text)
- – "A Golden Crown" (mentioned in text)
- – "Justice of the Seven Kingdoms" (illustrated)
- – "The Iron Throne" (mentioned in text)
References[]
- ↑ Histories & Lore: Season 4, Short 16: "Justice of the Seven Kingdoms" (2015).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 4: "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" (2011).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 6: "The Iron Throne" (2019).
Notes[]
- ↑ Conjecture based on information from The World of Ice & Fire; may be subject to change.
External links[]
- Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II) on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (potential spoilers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight)