Jaehaerys Targaryen

Jaehaerys Targaryen was the firstborn twin son of Aegon the Elder and Helaena Targaryen. His birth in 123 AC gave his father’s branch of the royal house heirs of its own, a development celebrated by the Greens at court; the account records his infancy but provides no later actions or fate.

Parentage and dynastic setting

In 122 AC, King Viserys Targaryen married his son Aegon the Elder to his daughter Helaena, following the ancient marriage tradition of House Targaryen. Aegon was fifteen and Helaena thirteen. Their marriage joined the king’s children within the dynasty and soon produced heirs for Aegon’s branch of the family.

Birth and twin sister

Barely a year after the wedding, Helaena gave birth to twins: Jaehaerys and his sister, Jaehaera Targaryen. A dragon’s egg was placed in each child’s cradle, and both eggs hatched. Jaehaerys was larger and more robust than his sister, but he was born with six fingers on his left hand and six toes on each foot, a striking difference from what the account describes as expected of a Targaryen princeling.

Place in the succession

The twins’ arrival changed the immediate dynastic picture: Aegon now had children of his own, and the Greens at court welcomed them as heirs. Their celebration framed Jaehaerys’s birth not only as a family event but as a reinforcement of his father’s claim and line. The available account does not explain a formal succession decree or establish what place Jaehaerys later held in the line of succession.

Limits of the account

The record offers no further description of Jaehaerys’s character, upbringing, relationships beyond his immediate family, or later life. It establishes his parentage, his birth alongside Jaehaera, and the physical details noted at his infancy; any account of his subsequent actions or fate would go beyond this evidence.