Lewyn Martell

Prince Lewyn Martell was a knight in the Kingsguard of King Aerys II Targaryen, who came to be known as "the Mad King."
==Biography==
Prince Lewyn Martell was the uncle of Prince Doran, Princess Elia, and Prince Oberyn Martell. A younger son, he joined the elite Kingsguard, forswearing any claim to land and title.
His niece Elia wed the Prince of Dragonstone, Rhaegar Targaryen, with whom the Martells shared blood due to intermarriage a century earlier, and bore him two children. However, Rhaegar later allegedly abducted Lyanna Stark, a false tale that led to the execution of Rickard and Brandon Stark, Lyanna's father and brother, and ignited Robert's Rebellion.
Even though Rhaegar dishonored his niece by running off with Lyanna, Prince Lewyn kept his oath and followed Rhaegar as he rode to face the rebel army led by Robert Baratheon at the climactic Battle of the Trident. Lewyn perished in the battle, along with Rhaegar and thousands of other Dornishmen.
==Family==
==In the books==
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Lewyn Martell is remembered fondly by his family as a kind man who loved his extended family. The Kingsguard are forbidden to marry or even to love, and in the past several have been severely punished even for having sexual affairs. As per the customs of Dorne, however, Prince Lewyn continued to secretly keep a paramour. Ser Barristan and the other Kingsguard were aware of it but kept his secret, as he did not let it interfere with his duty.
Lewyn joined the Kingsguard in part because he was the younger sibling in his generation of House Martell. He was actually the eldest son, but rule passed to his older sister (mother of Doran, Elia, and Oberyn) due to Dorne's gender-blind inheritance laws, different from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms.
At the Battle of the Trident, Prince Lewyn led the large Dornish contingent (10,000 men strong) which threatened to break Robert Baratheon's left flank. During the fighting he became badly wounded, however, and in the confusion Ser Lyn Corbray led a counter-charge by the rebels, in which he personally dueled and killed Lewyn Martell. The vain and arrogant Ser Lyn would in later years boast about how he had personally defeated Prince Lewyn, though in reality Prince Lewyn was already very badly wounded (perhaps mortally so) and Corbray simply finished him off.
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