Visenya I Targaryen
Reigned: 489 AC - 515 AC
Spouses: Cormond Strongblood
Children: Jaehaerys and Jeyne Targaryen, Aurion Targaryen, Orys Targaryen (Later known as Septon Orys)
Visenya Targaryen, First of Her Name, known as Visenya the Golden due to her dragonstreak and Visenya of the Stones due to the nickname given to her faction during the Second Dance of Dragons, was the Twenty-Eighth Monarch of the Seven Kingdoms, the first reigning Queen on the Iron Throne and the rider of the dragon Wrathion. She earned victory against her Uncle, King Daemon the Usurper, in the Second Dance of Dragons, and would be the last ruler of the Iron Throne as it existed under Aegon I Targaryen, thanks to the territorial expansion of her son.
Three moons after the end of the Dance, the Queen gave birth to twins, her son and heir, Jaehaerys, and a daughter named after her own mother, Jeyne. The boy would go on to be known as ‘the Fireknight’ due to his fighting and tourney skill. In addition, he would marry the first Sword of the Morning in over two centuries, Alienor Dayne.
Oddly, for such a significant figure in the history of the Iron Throne, there is very little one can write of the first reigning Queen besides how she came to the throne. Most of her reign was spent travelling and fixing the wounds caused by the Second Dance, especially in the Reach, Riverlands and Stormlands. In her six-and-twenty years on the throne, she close to a decade was spent travelling the realm. The peace she forged would last well into her granddaughter’s reign, when the Martell’s rose in rebellion.
Despite having been proven as the lies of Queen Jeyne Blackwood, Visenya I Targaryen wore the same crown as her father, Aenys II Targaryen, as if to reinforce this. Her small council including former ‘Wood’s’ (supporters of her Uncle, Daemon the Usurper), although their authority was curtailed by the ‘Stones’, her own supporters. This included the Hand of the King, Lord Edric Slynt of Duskendale and her husband and Master of Whispers, Cormond Strongblood.
Visenya I Targaryen died in 515 AC, at the age of four-and-forty, just as her Uncle did. The cause was likely a mix of exhaustion and illness. She was succeeded by her son, Jaehaerys IV Targaryen.
Kingsguard at the end of Visenya I Targaryen’s Reign
Ser Tommen ‘The Green’ Fossoway, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard
Ser Bowen Bolton
Ser Criston Hasty
Ser Ormond Serrett
Ser Eddison Waynwood
Ser Wendell Rowntree
Ser Tywin Ameland
Notable People:
Cormond Strongblood (III): The last High King of Andalos, and later King-Consort of Westeros. He had a daughter, Bella, from his first marriage. It is thought that, prior to her marriage to Lord Olyvar Tully, she would marry her half-brother and future King, Jaehaerys. Cormond himself was known to be a lover of music and song, and bred horses as a hobby. Whilst he was sometimes bitter about losing his own throne, he was always faithful and loyal to his wife and Queen, and never once overstepped. After he died in 507AC, his wife took to wearing nothing but mourning attire. House Strongblood would go extinct in 520 AC.
Rokon of Leng: A Lengi exile that befriended Cormond Strongblood before the fall of Andalos. He would stay with the deposed King when he married Queen Visenya. He was made Master-of-Arms of the Red Keep, and remained so well after his former master's death. He would also serve as Commander of the Gold Cloaks in his later years, making the streets of the capital as safe as they were during Daemon I Targaryen's time leading the Gold Cloaks.
Doniphos Erosenes: The first ‘Emperor’ of New Valyria. Doniphos was first elected as High Magister of the Freehold of Lys, before he declared himself Emperor. When Joryllo Rogare rose to overthrow him with the support of many of the Free Cities, he fought a fighting retreat to the Erosenes’ northern holdings of Saath and Morosh. The Rogare patriarch declared victory, but both Freehold and Empire would have minor skirmishes for the next century.
Daenysa Otherys: A ‘Black Pearl of Braavos’ that would acquire the city of Moonsbridge as a gift from the then High Sealord, Syrano Nestoris. Daenysa would become the first woman to lead the Braavosi Freehold, breaking fifty years of Nestoris dominance. Her husband, Bharrala Bandry, was a member of the ruling family of the Summer Islands.
Lao Zhao: Appearing for a second time in these lists. Lao Zhao would, in 497 AC, lead a rebellion in Yi Ti. His victory saw the end of the Temurid’s Lavender dynasty. Zhao thus became the first of the Carmine God-Emperors. During the first decade of his reign, the Dothraki Sea would gain independence from the Empire in a series of mass rebellions. Despite this, his reign was seen as a golden age.
Irier Temurid: The last of the Lavender dynasty to rule Yi Ti, and with it the one hundred and two year rule of the Temurid family. She would outlive her overthrow by twelve years, dying in exile somewhere within the Bone Mountains.
Amqa Temurid: The Jhat of Ibben at the time of the fall of the Temurid imperial line, Amqa became High Moonsinger at the age of three-and-twenty after the death of Irier Temurid (mentioned above), and during the Dothraki rebellions, she called her family and loyalists to Ibben, and declared independence. She would be successful, and ruled Ibben as its first ‘High Moonsinger’.

Reigned: 489 AC - 515 AC
Spouses: Cormond Strongblood
Children: Jaehaerys and Jeyne Targaryen, Aurion Targaryen, Orys Targaryen (Later known as Septon Orys)
Visenya Targaryen, First of Her Name, known as Visenya the Golden due to her dragonstreak and Visenya of the Stones due to the nickname given to her faction during the Second Dance of Dragons, was the Twenty-Eighth Monarch of the Seven Kingdoms, the first reigning Queen on the Iron Throne and the rider of the dragon Wrathion. She earned victory against her Uncle, King Daemon the Usurper, in the Second Dance of Dragons, and would be the last ruler of the Iron Throne as it existed under Aegon I Targaryen, thanks to the territorial expansion of her son.
Three moons after the end of the Dance, the Queen gave birth to twins, her son and heir, Jaehaerys, and a daughter named after her own mother, Jeyne. The boy would go on to be known as ‘the Fireknight’ due to his fighting and tourney skill. In addition, he would marry the first Sword of the Morning in over two centuries, Alienor Dayne.
Oddly, for such a significant figure in the history of the Iron Throne, there is very little one can write of the first reigning Queen besides how she came to the throne. Most of her reign was spent travelling and fixing the wounds caused by the Second Dance, especially in the Reach, Riverlands and Stormlands. In her six-and-twenty years on the throne, she close to a decade was spent travelling the realm. The peace she forged would last well into her granddaughter’s reign, when the Martell’s rose in rebellion.
Despite having been proven as the lies of Queen Jeyne Blackwood, Visenya I Targaryen wore the same crown as her father, Aenys II Targaryen, as if to reinforce this. Her small council including former ‘Wood’s’ (supporters of her Uncle, Daemon the Usurper), although their authority was curtailed by the ‘Stones’, her own supporters. This included the Hand of the King, Lord Edric Slynt of Duskendale and her husband and Master of Whispers, Cormond Strongblood.
Visenya I Targaryen died in 515 AC, at the age of four-and-forty, just as her Uncle did. The cause was likely a mix of exhaustion and illness. She was succeeded by her son, Jaehaerys IV Targaryen.
Kingsguard at the end of Visenya I Targaryen’s Reign
Ser Tommen ‘The Green’ Fossoway, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard
Ser Bowen Bolton
Ser Criston Hasty
Ser Ormond Serrett
Ser Eddison Waynwood
Ser Wendell Rowntree
Ser Tywin Ameland
Notable People:
Cormond Strongblood (III): The last High King of Andalos, and later King-Consort of Westeros. He had a daughter, Bella, from his first marriage. It is thought that, prior to her marriage to Lord Olyvar Tully, she would marry her half-brother and future King, Jaehaerys. Cormond himself was known to be a lover of music and song, and bred horses as a hobby. Whilst he was sometimes bitter about losing his own throne, he was always faithful and loyal to his wife and Queen, and never once overstepped. After he died in 507AC, his wife took to wearing nothing but mourning attire. House Strongblood would go extinct in 520 AC.
Rokon of Leng: A Lengi exile that befriended Cormond Strongblood before the fall of Andalos. He would stay with the deposed King when he married Queen Visenya. He was made Master-of-Arms of the Red Keep, and remained so well after his former master's death. He would also serve as Commander of the Gold Cloaks in his later years, making the streets of the capital as safe as they were during Daemon I Targaryen's time leading the Gold Cloaks.
Doniphos Erosenes: The first ‘Emperor’ of New Valyria. Doniphos was first elected as High Magister of the Freehold of Lys, before he declared himself Emperor. When Joryllo Rogare rose to overthrow him with the support of many of the Free Cities, he fought a fighting retreat to the Erosenes’ northern holdings of Saath and Morosh. The Rogare patriarch declared victory, but both Freehold and Empire would have minor skirmishes for the next century.
Daenysa Otherys: A ‘Black Pearl of Braavos’ that would acquire the city of Moonsbridge as a gift from the then High Sealord, Syrano Nestoris. Daenysa would become the first woman to lead the Braavosi Freehold, breaking fifty years of Nestoris dominance. Her husband, Bharrala Bandry, was a member of the ruling family of the Summer Islands.
Lao Zhao: Appearing for a second time in these lists. Lao Zhao would, in 497 AC, lead a rebellion in Yi Ti. His victory saw the end of the Temurid’s Lavender dynasty. Zhao thus became the first of the Carmine God-Emperors. During the first decade of his reign, the Dothraki Sea would gain independence from the Empire in a series of mass rebellions. Despite this, his reign was seen as a golden age.
Irier Temurid: The last of the Lavender dynasty to rule Yi Ti, and with it the one hundred and two year rule of the Temurid family. She would outlive her overthrow by twelve years, dying in exile somewhere within the Bone Mountains.
Amqa Temurid: The Jhat of Ibben at the time of the fall of the Temurid imperial line, Amqa became High Moonsinger at the age of three-and-twenty after the death of Irier Temurid (mentioned above), and during the Dothraki rebellions, she called her family and loyalists to Ibben, and declared independence. She would be successful, and ruled Ibben as its first ‘High Moonsinger’.
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