Last time, we talked about the weak rule of Inis I, the eldest son of Aegon the Conqueror. This time we continue to talk about Aegon 's other very different son, the famous cruel Meger I in the history of ice and fire.
Game of Thrones Prequel Targaryen Family History (4) – Weak Inis I
The son of Aegon and Queen Visania, Meig was born in AC12 and lived in Dragonstone with his mother since childhood, where he began to practice martial arts and swords at the age of three. He is irritable and aggressive by nature, but he has also developed a good sword, which is difficult for ordinary people to match. When Meig was 13 years old, Visania gave him her saber "Dark Sisters", and since then he has been in the limelight in major competitions. At the age of 16, Meiger shone in the Rushing City jousting tournament and won the team jousting championship, and his father Aegon personally put "Black Fire" on his shoulders and canonized him as a knight. Meiger became the youngest knight of the Seven Great Powers at that time.
Unlike her brother Inis, who loved literature and art, Meig made great achievements on the battlefield. When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he went out twice with the hand of the king and the chancellor of the sea, sweeping the pirate king Saraso Sanne of Rees in the Stone Steps Islands, and proved his bravery and strength through many bloody battles. Later, he hunted the notorious robber knight "Giant of the Trident River" in the riverlands. Although he is competitive, Meige has not become a dragon knight for a long time, and in the face of everyone's ridicule, Meig expressed the "Black Death" Bellerien, and no dragon can be worthy of him. Sure enough, after his father's death, he rode the Black Reaper.
At the age of 14, Meige married Cerassie of the old town of Hightower under the arrangement of her father, but the two had no children after the marriage. After Aegon 's death, Inis I succeeded to the throne, and Meiger was made the hand of the king after helping his brother to suppress the rebellion. However, the good times did not last long, and Meige married Allie Harroway as a second room on the grounds that Princess Cerese was infertile, which was strongly opposed by the church, and Inis I had to exile Meg. Meige took the clan sword "Black Fire", harnessed the dragon, and flew to Pantos with his second wife.
In 42 AD, Inis Targaryen I, faced with civil strife caused by the church, fled to Dragonstone and fell seriously ill and died depressed. At this time, Inis's heir, Prince Aegon was trapped in the Chicken Hall, and the Queen Mother Visania quickly flew to Pantos to retrieve her exiled son Meige. Prince Meige was crowned first on Dragonstone, and no one among the nobles present dared to resist. Inis's wife, Empress Dowager Alesha, realized the crisis of the situation and returned early with the child to Tidehead Fort, which was her father's fief, to avoid Meg's harm to herself and her children.
After their coronation, Meg and the Queen Mother of Visania quickly flew back to King's Landing in a dragon, which was controlled by the sons of warriors (the Church Armed Knights of the Holy Sword), who occupied the walls of the city gates, the hills of Aegon and the sanctuary of Hill of Rhaenys, so Meg hung the royal banner of the red dragon on a black background on the hills of Visania and summoned the allegiance of the royal family. Empress Dowager Visania announced in public that Meig was the only king, the true king, with the blood of a conqueror on his body, and any doubter could stand up and challenge.
Sir Damon Morrigan of the Order of the Holy Sword first challenged Meiger. Mei Ge said that he was relieved of the conversation and fought with the sword in his hand. Master Damon and the silver-armored knights he led fought for the gods, so he proposed to choose seven acting knights for the trial according to the rules of ancient Andas. In fact, Damon has his own plan, at this time the Royal Forest Iron Guard is still on Dragonstone Island, and Meige, who flew back in a hurry with the dragon, has no available knights.
Meige did not show weakness, he extended an invitation to the supporters present, but the son of the warrior was famous, and the knights present were afraid to answer. A soldier nicknamed "Bean" stood up first, which stimulated the honor of the onlookers, and Meig also gathered 6 knights to fight side by side. The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce and brutal, and each family had its own description of the details of the battle, but everyone agreed that all participants were heroes.
The duel fought to the last moment, leaving Prince Meig alone against the "pious Damon" and "Wanderer" William, both of which burst out with their last strength, and no one could stand up after the duel, just when everyone thought that both sides had died together, Empress Vesania found that Meig still had a trace of breath. Meiger eventually won the trial and the respect of his people and opponents, and when the dying king was carried down the mountain, the church knights knelt down to pay their respects. But will their belated curtsies be exchanged for forgiveness? The answer is no.
After the "Trial of the Seven Sons", Meger Targaryen died between life and death, and people on all sides seemed to see another opportunity. On the hills of Rhaenys, the son of the warrior argues over whether to accept the outcome of the contest or continue to fight to defend the archbishop; At the Tidehead Fort, Empress Alesha announced that her son, Prince Aegon, was the heir to the Iron Throne; In the western and southern frontiers, thousands of members of the gathering of the poor poured into the streets, and the mighty procession marched towards King's Landing; In the Chicken Hall, with the departure of the mob, Prince Aegon finally escaped and came to Kaiyan City to seek shelter, and Princess Rhaonia became pregnant. Everything seemed to herald the end of Meige's reign.
Meige, the most disrespectful king, seems to have been blessed by the gods. On the twenty-eighth day of Meg's life and death, a ship came from Pantos in the evening tide, carrying Yali Haroway, Meg's second wife, and a beautiful woman with black hair and pale skin, Tyanna of "Tower City", Meggar's mistress. Tyanna is a woman full of stories, she is the illegitimate daughter of a governor of Pantos, who later became a courtesan, and rumors say she is a wizard and sorceress. Regardless of the rumors, early in the morning of the day after her arrival in King's Landing, Meig woke up and appeared in front of everyone.
Meig has never been a tolerant person, he immediately rode the "Black Death" and landed on the top of Rhaenys Hill, turning the son of the warrior who was praying in the morning in the sanctuary into ashes, and the essence of the Holy Sword Knights armed by the church was burned, and the vitality was greatly injured and never returned to its former glory. This fire burned to the sore spot of the church, and if the church could not defend even its most faithful believers, how could the common people believe in the power of God would come to earth. Since then, Meige and the church have completely turned on each other, and the war between them has continued throughout Meige's reign.
Meige's first edict on the Iron Throne was to demand that the poor gather in the capital to lay down their arms and disperse on the spot. The edict had no effect, and he later issued an order for the king's loyal people to take up arms and suppress the ragged rebels. The archbishop also showed no weakness and issued a-for-tat statement: calling on the faithful followers of the seven gods to take up arms against the dynasty of evil dragons and evil races.
The first conflict occurred in the town of Stone Bridge in the river bend, led by the strong "lumberjack" Wott, the nine thousand members of the poor people on the southern side were surrounded and intercepted by the princes of the six towns when crossing the Mande River, and they could not care about each other, plus many of these followers were untrained, the battlefield situation became a one-sided massacre on the king's side, the blood of the soldiers who died tragically stained the Mande River, and Walter himself was captured and sent to King's Landing, and since then the town of Stone Bridge has been renamed "Bitter Bridge Town", this town full of bitter water, and more tragic things will happen in the future.
Another large teaching team, led by Harris Heeshan, came from the West to the fork of the Blackwater River. This contingent was of higher quality, including not only members of the poor assembly, but also the sons of warriors who had come from the Shitang Town branch, as well as the devout princes and knights of the western and river lands, and the assembled number was nearly 20,000. King Meig's team was equal in size, but the ironclad cavalry and longbowmen were more dominant, and Meig was the dragon himself in battle. The battle was as fierce as you can imagine, and after the start of the fight, both sides tried their best, and each lost a number of good hands. Moreover, it rained heavily that day, and the combat effectiveness of the "Black Death" Bellerion was significantly weakened, but Meige still drove the dragon to spray flames at the enemy again and again, until the poor gathered at night, they laid down their weapons and scattered and fled.
Satisfied with the victory, Meiger re-sat on the Iron Throne and announced that he would marry Tyanna of "Tower City" as his third wife. The courtiers saw Meige's cruelty and were all silent, only the university scholar Melos objected, and Meige raised a "black fire" to kill the bachelor on the spot, which was already the second national teacher he killed. The wedding of Meg and Tyanna took place in the ruins of Rhaenys Hill, stepping on the corpse and ashes of the warrior's son, clinging to the blood of the monks (before the wedding Meg killed a dozen monks who refused to officiate), it was completed in the presence of captives whose hands and feet were cut off by him, or rather in the face of the church.
Deterred by the Queen Mother Visania and the dragon Waghar, Empress Alesa, who was hiding in the tide fort, also attended the wedding with her children and led her Valerian family to swear allegiance to the new king. But the archbishop of the old town did not give in and continued to lash out at Meige. The Hytar family, where Meg's wife, Queen Cerese, belonged, also refused to recognize Meg's second and third queens. Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaonia, who sought refuge in the West, still did not recognize their uncle's throne and continued to declare their right to inherit the Iron Throne.
Although Prince Aegon insisted on disobeying his uncle Meige, he had a hard time seeking political asylum in Cayrock City. The knights and nobles who followed him had already turned to Meige, the people's love for him had gradually disappeared, and he had been slow to ride a dragon to become a dragon knight, and people began to talk about him being as weak and incompetent as his father Inis. Aegon was once the chosen son and was born as the heir to the throne, but now he has been betrayed by friends and relatives, living a frightened life under the fence, and is known as the "uncrowned" or even the "pseudo-king" Aegon by everyone, this huge gap has increased his indignant defiance.
It was at this turbulent moment that Princess Rhaonia gave birth to a daughter for Prince Aegon in Cayrock City, Arya and Rihanna. Rhaonia, who became a mother, begged Aegon to take herself and her daughter to take refuge across the narrow sea, because although the Duke of Linman of Cayrock repeatedly resisted pressure and refused Meige's request to hand over the Aegon family, Duke Linman did not publicly express his support for the prince. Rhaenia, who has experienced the coldness of the world, feels that staying in Westeros will inevitably lead to murder, but the young and vigorous Aegon stares at his throne and ignores his wife's bitter pleas.
The cruel Meig gradually sat firmly on the Iron Throne through his own iron means, and a year after ascending the throne, he began to set his sights on the construction of the Red Keep. He overturned much of the previous work and dug countless secret passages under the Aegon Hills. After the completion of the red tower castle, he ordered the construction of a city within a city in the middle of the castle, with a wall of twelve feet thick and surrounded by a moat full of spikes, this reinforced tower is the famous "Meige Tower", which became the seat of the royal family's dormitory. To avoid revealing the castle's secrets, Meiger executed all the craftsmen involved in its construction.
When Meige was bent on the construction of the royal city, the previously defeated poor people's assembly did not disappear, unable to gather a large-scale attack, wandering in groups of three or five in the riverbends, rivers, and valleys, attacking passers-by to harass the town and attacking the castle that supported the king, and their behavior was almost the same as that of bandits. And the sons of the warriors, led by the new commander Sir "The Red Dog of the Hill" Sir Joffrey Dorget, determined to restore the former glory of the Order, they traveled all the way from Lannister Port to the Old Town to seek the blessing and support of the Archbishop, who arrived in the Old Town with two thousand knights. The devout lords of the seven countries have long been dissatisfied with Meige's atrocities, and they are all waiting and waiting for the opportunity, hoping to overthrow the Targaryen dynasty.
In the face of so many opponents, how will Meg deal with it, we will continue next time.
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