How are Daenerys and Rhaenyra Targaryen related?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Though they are many decades separated, Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon and Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones are closely related. The events of Game of Thrones begin almost 300 years after Aegon the Conquerer arrived in what would eventually be King’s Landing. House of the Dragon takes place only 100 years after Aegon’s invasion; it’s a time when the Targaryen bloodline is at its strongest and most prolific.
The Targaryen family tree has always been an incestuous and closely knit web of brothers marrying sisters and nieces marrying uncles, a safeguard against other families gaining access to dragons. As such, anyone with the Targaryen last name is inherently more closely related to their ancestors than other members of great houses. Rhaenyra and Daenerys’ relationship is even closer, considering their similar roles in their families and in Westeros.
Between Rhaenyra Targaryen and Daenerys, the purity of the Targaryen bloodline became much more mixed than it had in the first 100 years of the dynasty's time in Westeros. Rhaenyra’s ancestors consist almost entirely of Tagaryens and their close relative families, the Velaryons and Baratheons. By Daenerys’ time, Blackwoods, Martells, and Daynes have all entered the familial line, indicating Daenerys is not a copy of her fiery ancestor.
An additional brutal aspect of Rhaenyra’s death is that Aegon III, a child, is forced to watch. This mirrors Missandei’s death hundreds of years later when Daenerys is helplessly forced to watch her closest friend’s execution at the hands of sworn enemy Cersei Lannister. Unlike Aegon III, who becomes brooding and melancholy for the rest of his reign, Daenerys' shock at watching Missandei die results in her slipping further into the fiery madness that affects many in the Targaryen dynasty.
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