[House Targaryen — Houses]
Jon Snow , born Aegon Targaryen , is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen , the late Prince of Dragonstone . From infancy, Jon is presented as the bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark , Lyanna's brother, and raised alongside Eddard's lawful children at Winterfell . Jon's true parentage is kept secret from everyone, including Jon himself, in order to protect him from those that sought the complete annihilation of House Targaryen .
In the throne room, Missandei introduces Daenerys's many titles while Davos introduces Jon simply as King in the North. Daenerys thanks Jon for traveling so far but insists that he is a mere Lord. Davos begs to differ but Daenerys responds that there has been no King in the North ever since Torrhen Stark bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror , and adds that an oath lasts for perpetuity. Daenerys then reiterates her demand for Jon to bend the knee but he refuses. When Daenerys accuses him of breaking faith with House Targaryen , Jon reminds her that the Mad King burnt his grandfather and uncle.
As she does, the hooded stranger knocks it out of her hand. In response, Jorah grabs the stranger, and in their struggle knock Daenerys to the ground. The ball then cracks in half, releasing a manticore . Before the creature can harm Daenerys with its lethal sting, the stranger, revealing himself to be Ser Barristan Selmy , kills it with his dagger. Meanwhile, the child hisses in a reptilian manner and uses magic to escape. Ser Barristan quickly identifies himself as one of her father 's Kingsguard and begs her forgiveness for failing House Targaryen during Robert's Rebellion. In return for his wrongs, he offers to serve in her Queensguard, which she accepts.
Some time later, Daenerys leads her armada to Westeros. With the Liberation of Slaver's Bay complete, Daenerys sails the Summer Sea , her three dragons: Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion fly over her assembled armada, composed of the horde of Dothraki, Ironborn , Dornishmen , Reachmen , and Unsullied fleet of House Targaryen. Daenerys, clad in Targaryen black, stands on the deck of the flagship with Tyrion, Missandei, and Varys, looking ahead to either the gift of a new ally, or another massive war within House Targaryen for the Iron Throne.
When Jon and Davos Seaworth arrive at Dragonstone, Daenerys sits in the keep's throne room, waiting for them. After their entrance, Missandei speaks Daenerys's name and announces her many titles, which stand in stark contrast to Davos simply announcing Jon as "the King in the North." Initially, Daenerys assumes that he has come to bend the knee to her, as she is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, and declared how Jon's ancestor Torrhen Stark bent knee to the Targaryens and was named Warden of the North, reminding that the eras wherein their Houses collaborated brought prosperity to the Seven Kingdoms. Jon, however, reminds her that any fealty House Stark owed House Targaryen ended when her father murdered his grandfather and uncle (though he accepts her apology on behalf of House Targaryen for the crimes committed against the Starks and he agrees she is not to blame for her father's sins) and states that his purpose is different; he has come to ask for her help in the coming fight against the Night King and his Army of the Dead , to which Daenerys would also need Jon's help in order to expunge the Night King's army.
With House Targaryen legally extinct, a Great Council in the Dragonpit decides that the Seven Kingdoms will be an elective monarchy under Brandon I . Through this elective monarchy, Tyrion fulfills Daenerys's wish of "breaking the wheel", while Jon is exiled to the Night's Watch in order to avoid a war between the Unsullied and his supporters.
Daenerys is the third member of the Targaryen dynasty to bear her name. The first Daenerys was the eldest daughter of King Jaehaerys I and Queen Alysanne, and the second was the sister of King Daeron II , who lived a century before Daenerys Stormborn. The earlier Daenerys wed into House Martell as part of the marriage-alliance, earning her the moniker "Daenerys of Sunspear", which at last united Dorne with the rest of the realm. Since Daenerys of Sunspear did not rule as a queen regnant, Daenerys Stormborn is not called "Daenerys II." When Daenerys Stormborn proclaims herself the rightful heir of the Targaryen dynasty, she is styled officially as "Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name" (Xaro is the first to address her by that title ). Daenerys is quite fond of her "Stormborn" sobriquet, however, and frequently substitutes it for "First of Her Name."
According to Missandei, Daenerys's full title is "Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, rightful heir to the Iron Throne, rightful Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, the Mother of Dragons , the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt , the Breaker of Chains ." She formerly used the full title of "Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar , and the First Men" alongside her past title of Queen of Meereen .
Daenerys wears Dothraki clothing again for much of Season 6 , but after returning to and securing Meereen, she retains her previous style but wears black instead of white. Black and red are the colors of House Targaryen. Daenerys has rarely worn her House colors since her journey began, so her wearing black now is the ultimate expression of her acceptance of her identity as a Targaryen conqueror and the rightful queen of Westeros.
After the end of the civil war which ended the reign of House Targaryen , Cersei was married to King Robert Baratheon , a political marriage Robert agreed to in thanks for her father's last-minute alliance . She was only 19 when she married Robert and became Queen. At first, Cersei was infatuated with the handsome Robert, but their love began to wane when he called her " Lyanna " on their wedding night. She nevertheless bore Robert a son who died shortly after his birth. Cersei was devastated by the loss of her son and refused to have the body taken from her, forcing Robert to hold her while they took her son from her. In time, Cersei's feelings for Robert turned to hatred and she returned to her brother as a result. Her three children, Joffrey , Myrcella and Tommen , were officially Robert's, but in reality were the products of her incestuous relationship with Jaime.
Following the walk of atonement - in sharp contrast to the show - Cersei is stripped of all power and authority, and is practically confined to her chambers. She loses her seat at the Small Council; all her henchmen are either deposed, imprisoned or flee away. All her guards are replaced by Kevan's men; her former ladies-in-waiting are replaced by a septa and three novices who watch her all the time, selected by the High Septon, with an additional precaution that they are to be replaced every week, lest Cersei corrupts them. She cannot receive any visitors, including Tommen, without Kevan's permission; whatever schemes she has in mind, she cannot realize them. Qyburn is the only one who remains loyal to her. Kevan intends to return her to Casterly Rock after the trial (if she's not executed) and see that she remains there, unable to take part both in the governance of the realm and in Tommen's education, while he and the new appointed Small Council members take steps to repair the damages she caused. Kevan and Pycelle are shortly after assassinated by Varys, who tells the dying Kevan he couldn't allow them to undo the damage Cersei has already done, explaining that Cersei will assume Tyrion and the Tyrells conspired to have Kevan and Pycelle assassinated, and with them gone, she will return to power even more paranoid and deranged, and utterly destroy the alliance between Houses Lannister and Tyrell, opening the way for Prince Aegon , the son of Rhaegar and Elia Martell , revealed to have survived and grown up in hiding in Essos, to take advantage of the chaos to reclaim the Iron Throne for House Targaryen.
Displeased at Jon for abdicating his title in favor of House Targaryen , she finds enmity with Queen Daenerys , who refuses to accept Northern independence in her restoration and quest for the Iron Throne. Following the Battle of King's Landing and Daenerys's subsequent assassination , Sansa declares the North an independent kingdom and is later crowned Queen in the North .
Theon makes it to Winterfell , where he is greeted by both Daenerys and Sansa. After he explains to Daenerys that Yara has sailed with her men to retake the Iron Islands from Euron in the name of House Targaryen, he asks permission from Sansa to fight for the North, and they share a hug as they are reunited. Theon later takes part in a meeting in preparation for the great battle to come, and announces that he will defend Bran Stark in the godswood , as reparation for having previously taken the castle from him. Theon is later seen sharing a hot drink with Sansa shortly before the army of the White Walkers arrives.
A proven warrior, Stannis went on to conquer Dragonstone , the historical seat of House Targaryen , but failed to capture the remaining Targaryen heirs, Viserys and Daenerys , who had fled to the Free Cities with the assistance of loyalists. During a rebellion led by Balon Greyjoy , Stannis destroyed the Iron Fleet , and captured Great Wyk .
In her youth, Olenna Redwyne was engaged to a member of House Targaryen , as it was "all the rage" at the time; it was her sister Viola to whom Luthor Tyrell was betrothed. However, Olenna instantly dismissed the idea upon clapping eyes on her "ludicrously silver-haired" fiancée and instead set her sights on Luthor. The night before the proposal, Olenna purportedly got lost on her way back from her embroidery lesson, stumbled upon the room in which Luthor was staying and proceeded to seduce him, so thoroughly in fact that the poor boy never did propose to Viola because he couldn't walk down the stairs to do it and all he could think about was what Olenna had shown him.
The Dornishmen , under the command of Ellaria Sand , support House Targaryen in the Last War , but a large part of the Dornish army and its navy is destroyed during the Assault on the Targaryen fleet (" Stormborn "). Afterwards, Dorne is no longer involved in the conflict between Daenerys and her allies and the Lannisters.
During his research on the White Walkers at the Citadel in Oldtown , Samwell Tarly discovers that a massive mountain of dragonglass could be found on Dragonstone , an island located near Blackwater Bay which had been the ancestral home of House Targaryen since before Aegon's Conquest . He immediately sent a message to the North, informing Jon of his find.