Alysanne Targaryen

"Queen of the Seven Kingdoms," circa 82 AC

Queen Tyanna of Pentos

Queen Elinor Costayne

Queen Rhaena Targaryen

Queen Jeyne Westerling

Prince Aemon Targaryen (son)

Prince Baelon Targaryen (son)

Princess Alyssa Targaryen (daughter)

Princess Maegelle Targaryen (daughter)

Prince Vaegon Targaryen (son)

Princess Daella Targaryen (daughter)

Princess Saera Targaryen (daughter)

Princess Viserra Targaryen (daughter)

Prince Gaemon Targaryen (son)

Prince Valerion Targaryen (son)

Princess Gael Targaryen (daughter)

Queen **Alysanne Targaryen,** also known as *Good Queen Alysanne*, is the queen consort of her brother, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. Alysanne is a dragonrider, whose mount is Silverwing.

## Appearance and Character

Alysanne is a small woman, slim of waist and slight of frame. According to a semi-canon source, she was small of breast, with a long neck, a fair complexion, a high forehead, and high cheekbones. Alysanne was described as "pretty", but seldom as "beautiful". She had blue eyes and honey-colored curls. Her lack of the classic Valyrian coloration of silver-white hair and purple eyes may have been due to the fact that her maternal grandmother was Alarra Massey. Alysanne often wore a slimmer, more feminine version of her brother-husband's crown at court.

Alysanne is bright but unremarkable as a young girl. She is courteous and biddable, and had a sweet smile and a pleasing voice. As a child, she is neither timid nor did she have a willful and stubborn temperament. According to Lord Rogar Baratheon, Alysanne is a proud girl at the age of thirteen. She is considered to be gentle, kind and loving. Alysanne loved her subjects, both highborn and lowborn, and is well loved throughout the Seven Kingdoms in return. She loved her women's courts, where she listened to and learned from the women of the realm. She loved music, dancing, reading, and flying on her dragon. She is a fearless woman. According to a semi-canon source, Alysanne is a fine archer and hunter in her youth, and became renowned for her charities.

Later in life, it is said that Alysanne had learned to read before she had been weaned. According to Septon Barth, she would have been sent to the Citadel, had she been male. She had a great wit, and all the chronicles agree that she made a powerful impression on those who met her. Alysanne is high-spirited, charming and keenly intelligent. However, Lord Roose Bolton considers Alysanne to have been shrewish.

## History

### Early Life

Alysanne was born to Prince Aenys Targaryen and Lady Alyssa Velaryon in 36 AC. She had four older siblings - Rhaena, Aegon, Viserys, and Jaehaerys - and one younger sibling, Vaella. According to legend, her sister Rhaena placed a dragon egg in Alysanne's cradle, from which eventually the dragon Silverwing hatched.

In 37 AC, following the death of her grandfather, King Aegon I Targaryen, on Dragonstone, her father Aenys ascended the throne. Followers of the Faith of the Seven began an uprising after King Aenys I married Alysanne's two eldest siblings, Rhaena and Aegon, to one another in 41 AC. After Poor Fellows scaled the walls of the Red Keep in an attempt to murder the royal family, Alysanne fled with her family to Dragonstone. By the end of the year most of the realm had joined the side of the Faith, and King Aenys, unable to decide how to deal with the rebels, fell ill. In 42 AC, he collapsed when learning that Rhaena and Aegon were besieged at Crakehall, and died three days later. Alysanne was present on Dragonstone for her father's cremation. Following Aenys's cremation, Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen brought her son Maegor back from his exile. At Dragonstone, Maegor claimed the Iron Throne for his own, ignoring the claim of Alysanne's eldest brother Aegon. Before he could arrive, however, Alysanne's mother took her and her brothers Viserys and Jaehaerys to Driftmark. Late that year, they traveled to King's Landing for the wedding of King Maegor I to Tyanna of the Tower. Following the wedding, Alysanne, Jaehaerys, and their mother were kept on Dragonstone, prisoners in all but name, by Dowager Queen Visenya, while Alysanne's brother Viserys was kept in King's Landing by Maegor.

Alysanne, Jaehaerys, and Dowager Queen Alyssa escaped Dragonstone in 44 AC, in the chaos following Visenya's death. As the realm slowly began to turn against Maegor, Alysanne's only brother Jaehaerys put forward his claim for the throne, as their elder brothers had both died during the years before; Aegon had been killed in battle by Maegor in 43 AC, Viserys had been tortured to death by Maegor in retaliation for the escape of Alysanne, Jaehaerys and Alyssa from Dragonstone. Alysanne stood beside Jaehaerys as he vowed to end Maegor's reign at Storm's End. Following Maegor's mysterious death in 48 AC, Alysanne, Jaehaerys, and their sister Rhaena flew on their dragons to King's Landing to claim the Iron Throne for Jaehaerys.

Alysanne would serve as a counselor to her brother throughout his reign. She urged him to allow the five surviving knights of Maegor's Kingsguard to join the Night's Watch, instead of executing them. When Jaehaerys allowed it, four of five took the black.

Alysanne was one of many of the royal court who accompanied Jaehaerys to Oldtown in late 48 AC, where she attended his coronation in the Starry Sept. The next year, Alysanne entertained the noble ladies who came to visit King's Landing for the wedding of her mother, Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, to Lord Rogar Baratheon.

## Queen Consort

### Marriage

Following Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon and Lord Rogar Baratheon's Golden Wedding, the small council began to debate about potential spouses for Jaehaerys and Alysanne. Still recalling the uprising of the Faith that had followed the wedding of her children Rhaena and Aegon, Alyssa decreed Alysanne and Jaehaerys should not be wed to one another, and after Septon Mattheus agreed that such a marriage would likely again inflame the pious of the realm, the council agreed to find other spouses for the siblings. The council was quick to agree on a husband for Alysanne: Ser Orryn Baratheon.

Alysanne soon learned about the council's decision. According to some, a servant who had been present for the council's discussions warned her, while others claim that it had been her uncle, Lord Daemon Velaryon. Alysanne informed Jaehaerys, who acted immediately, ordering his Kingsguard to discreetly travel to Dragonstone during the night, while he and Alysanne flew together to the island upon their dragons. On Dragonstone, Alysanne and Jaehaerys were married in secret, with Septon Oswyck performing the ceremony. As Jaehaerys refused to consummate the marriage, believing Alysanne to still be too young, Alysanne remained a maiden. Lord Rogar and Queen Alyssa arrived on the island soon after the wedding. Upon learning that the marriage had not yet been consummated, Rogar ordered his men to secure the two children, but was defied by the Kingsguard, who formed a wall in front of their king and queen. While Alyssa and Rogar departed, defeated, Alysanne and Jaehaerys remained behind on Dragonstone, where they would spend the rest of the king's minority, spending nearly every hour in each other's company.

Although they had the means to do so, Alysanne and Jaehaerys did not announce their marriage to the realm. Meanwhile, the king's council at King's Landing made no announcement either, but instead began to consider ways to undo the marriage. On the seventh day of the second moon of 50 AC, several ladies-in-waiting departed King's Landing to Dragonstone on the orders of Dowager Queen Alyssa. Although Alyssa sent them under the cover of serving her daughter and being her household, their true purpose was to try and persuade Alysanne to rescind her marriage. Lord Rogar approved his wife's plans, as he wanted eyes and ears on Dragonstone, and saw these women as an opportunity to learn all Jaehaerys was doing. Despite her youth, however, Queen Alysanne charmed all her ladies-in-waiting, who soon became completely loyal to her.

On the twentieth day of the ninth month of 50 AC, Jaehaerys came of age. He flew his dragon to King's Landing to claim the throne soon thereafter, while Alysanne remained on Dragonstone. She followed him nigh on half a year later, flying from Dragonstone to the Red Keep on Silverwing. A month later, Alysanne and Jaehaerys married in a small, public ceremony; this time the ceremony was followed by a consummation.

## Styles, Titles and Honours

#### Styles

* Queen consort of Westeros
* Princess