Viserys I Targaryen

Character from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin

The peaceful king whose reign was golden and whose legacy was ash — he loved his family, refused to see the cracks forming between his children, and died leaving a succession crisis so perfectly engineered by his own inaction that it destroyed his house and killed his dragons.

Also known as: Viserys, Viserys I, King Viserys, The Peaceful King

What They Know

• He named Rhaenyra his heir and made every lord in the realm swear oaths to uphold her succession — the first time a woman was named heir to the Iron Throne
• He married Alicent Hightower as his second wife, creating the factional split between the children of his two marriages that became the Blacks and Greens
• He was chosen as king by the Great Council of 101 AC over Princess Rhaenys, establishing the precedent that the realm preferred male succession
• He was obsessed with building a model of Old Valyria and spent years on the project — some see it as a metaphor for his desire to preserve a perfect past
• The Iron Throne cut him constantly, and the cuts never fully healed — maesters debated whether the throne was rejecting him or his blood simply would not clot
• He refused to disinherit Rhaenyra even when pressured, but also refused to address the growing threat the Hightower faction posed to her succession

Connections

• parent_of — rhaenyra
• parent_of — aegon_ii
• parent_of — aemond
• parent_of — helaena
• parent_of — daeron
• married_to — alicent
• married_to — aemma
• child_of — baelon
• ally_of — daemon
• located_at — kings_landing
• sibling_of — daemon
• ally_of — jaehaerys

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