Place
King's Landing
The Crownlands
- Kind
- Capital
- Region
- The Crownlands
- Held by
- Targaryen
Changes hands in season 3, episode 2 when Rhaenyra lands three dragons on it and the City Watch opens the gates.
What happens here
- S1E1 Aemma Arryn dies in a birthing bed on Viserys's order. Her son lives a day.
- S1E1 Viserys strips Daemon of the succession and names Rhaenyra heir. Every lord in the hall swears to her.
- S1E2 Daemon occupies Dragonstone with a stolen egg and the Gold Cloaks behind him.
- S1E2 Viserys refuses the Velaryon match and announces Alicent Hightower instead. Corlys turns to the Stepstones.
- S1E3 Viserys tells Rhaenyra she is still his heir and that she must marry anyway.
- S1E4 Daemon lays his crown at Viserys's feet and is welcomed back to court.
- S1E4 Otto Hightower is dismissed as Hand for spying on the princess.
- S1E5 Daemon rides into the Vale to see his first wife.
- S1E5 Rhaenyra weds Laenor Velaryon. Alicent walks into the feast in Hightower green.
- S1E5 Criston Cole beats Joffrey Lonmouth to death on the floor of the wedding hall.
- S1E6 The court has stopped pretending about the colour of Rhaenyra's sons' hair.
- S1E8 Vaemond Velaryon calls Rhaenyra's sons bastards in open court.
- S1E8 Daemon takes his head off mid-sentence.
- S1E8 Viserys drags himself to the throne to confirm Lucerys as heir to Driftmark, then holds one last supper where both families behave.
- S1E9 Viserys dies. Alicent believes his last words named Aegon.
- S1E9 Lyman Beesbury objects at the council table and Criston Cole kills him on it.
- S1E9 Aegon is crowned in the Dragonpit in front of a crowd that was rounded up for the purpose.
- S1E9 Rhaenys comes up through the floor of the pit on Meleys, stops in front of the whole court, and does not burn them.
- S2E1 Blood and Cheese kill Jaehaerys in front of his mother and sister. Daemon commissioned it and did not specify a child.
- S2E2 Otto parades the dead boy through the streets to make the smallfolk hate Rhaenyra.
Connected to
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