Mervyn Flowers

Mervyn Flowers was a bastard-born member of the Kingsguard, a seasoned soldier whose place at court linked the royal guard to the ambitions of his half-brother, Unwin Peake. His importance rests less on any confirmed act than on the office he held and the suspicions surrounding his presence outside Jaehaera Targaryen’s chamber on the night she died. The history raises the possibility that he enabled a crime, but offers no proof that he did so; his part in the queen’s death remains uncertain.

Identity and Position

When Unwin Peake became Hand, he secured white cloaks for two of his relatives: Mervyn Flowers, his bastard brother, and Amaury Peake, his nephew. The appointments placed Peake’s kin within the Kingsguard, a powerful household institution whose members served the monarch directly. Flowers’s elevation therefore illustrates how the Hand drew family connections into the machinery of royal service, surrounding the crown with men whose advancement was tied to his influence.

Flowers was not described as a celebrated champion. He was regarded as dutiful rather than heroic, an experienced soldier and a capable swordsman. That distinction matters to the account’s later speculation: he was neither presented as an obvious villain nor as a figure whose character could settle the question of what happened to Jaehaera. His standing was that of a competent sworn brother, not a renowned warrior whose actions were already the subject of fame.

Character and Reputation

The histories give Flowers a more complicated private reputation than his public role might suggest. Mushroom, who said he had drunk with him, described him as fond of wine. The account also reports that Flowers’s conduct away from duty did not always accord with the Kingsguard’s vow of chastity, while emphasizing that such stories came through reported testimony rather than establishing his conduct through direct observation. In drink, he reportedly boasted of relations with highborn women; these claims contribute to the portrait of a man whose private life could be less restrained than his vows demanded.

His temper is more directly relevant to the suspicions that follow. Flowers was said to be quick to anger and inclined to perceive slights where none were intended. Yet the account does not treat these flaws as evidence of murder. A hot temper and a complicated reputation might make him a plausible object of gossip, but they do not establish that he harmed Jaehaera or knowingly helped anyone else do so.

The Night Jaehaera Died

Flowers was the Kingsguard posted at Jaehaera’s door on the night she fell to her death. His position made him central to later conjecture: if another person entered the queen’s room, the guard at her door might have been able to admit or permit that person. The account notes that Unwin Peake was elsewhere in the city when Jaehaera died, but that Flowers, his brother, held the post. This connection helped make Peake a plausible suspected instigator without proving that Flowers had acted on his behalf.

The proposed explanations remain explicitly uncertain. The history considers whether Flowers could have served as Peake’s instrument, but does not establish that he did. Mushroom rejected the idea that Flowers himself would have thrown the sleeping child from the window. He instead suggested that Flowers might have stood aside for someone he knew, perhaps Tessario the Thumb or one of the Fingers, if the visitor claimed to act at the Hand’s command. That account is speculation, not testimony that any such person entered the chamber.

Nor does the record rule out the possibility that Jaehaera died by her own hand. It states that the true circumstances will never be known and that there is no proof she was murdered. Flowers’s presence at the door is a consequential circumstance, but it cannot resolve the competing possibilities. His role in the queen’s death is therefore defined by access and suspicion, not by a confirmed action.

Service After Unwin Peake

When Unwin Peake resigned as Hand, Flowers did not leave court with him. He remained in the Kingsguard, as did Amaury Peake. The account explains that sworn brothers served for life, so the office outlasted the political patronage that had helped secure Flowers’s appointment. Unwin even left his personal guards, known as the Fingers, to his successor, on the grounds that the king had guards and the Hand should have them too; Flowers’s own continued service was distinct from that transfer, and the history does not say that he joined the Fingers.

That survival in office gives Flowers’s story its final contrast. His advancement had been part of Unwin’s effort to place relatives and allies around the royal household, but his Kingsguard vows bound him to service beyond his brother’s tenure as Hand. The unresolved suspicion attached to the night of Jaehaera’s death follows him in the account, while no later evidence here confirms either his guilt or his innocence.