Fire & Blood

Content Warning: The source material in this section includes gender-based violence, debilitating alcohol abuse, incest, suicide, and domestic abuse.

Three weddings in 49 AC interfered with Jaehaerys’s efforts to consolidate power. Rhaena married Androw Farman, second son of the Lord of Fair Isle, without getting permission from Jaehaerys and Alyssa. Jaehaerys was offended, and this coupling prevented marriage to a potential ally to shore up Jaehaerys’s power. Rogar Baratheon married Alyssa without asking Jaehaerys; their wedding was a decadent affair with expensive feasts, clothes, and a tourney. People called it the Golden Wedding. Because he was a man, Rogar presumed to dominate his wife, and he played a central role in finding a wife for Jaehaerys.

Jaehaerys was angry with his exclusion from discussions about his own marriage, and his younger sister Alysanne had no interest in the matches proposed for her. Alysanne and Jaehaerys married on Dragonstone with the family’s old personal septon presiding and the Kingsguard as witnesses. Rogar and Alyssa showed up with knights to put a stop to it. The Kingsguard refused to put their hands on the king as Rogar ordered. The marriage had not been consummated. Sources differ on this last point and why there was no open battle.