#queen betha

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Queen Betha Blackwood

“Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited (some say willful) daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall…”

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AEGON V TARGARYEN // BETHA BLACKWOOD

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“Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited (some say willful) daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall, who became known as Black Betha for her dark eyes and raven hair."

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Queen Betha Blackwood, of Raventree Hall, consort to Aegon V Targaryen.

Betha was known as Black Betha because of her dark eyes and hair. She was a spirited woman, stubborn and willful. (TWOIAF, Targaryen Kings)

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Queen Betha Blackwood Aesthetic by: me.

Betha was a beautiful noblewoman from House Blackwood who marrieid King Aegon V and become Queen of The Seven Kingdoms.

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Queen Beta Blackwood

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queen betha blackwood, during the long winter that began her husband, king aegon v’s reign, 234 AC

visenya and rhaenys, alyssa velaryon, the six wives of maegor, alysanne, aemma arryn, alicent hightower and rhaenyra i, helaena, jaehaera, daenaera velaryon, daena the defiant, naerys, myriah nymeros martell, aelinor penrose

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The Maternity of Targaryen Kings

(a side-note on "The Life Expectancies of Targaryen Monarchs: Death")

CW: spoilers for HotD and F&B. reference to Targaryen incest, Valyrian eugenics. discussion of underage marriage, teen pregnancy, infertility, traumatic pregnancies.

Underage Mothers

Both Aemma Arryn Targaryen (mother of Rhaenyra I) & Naerys Targaryen (mother of Daeron II) were 15 when they had their first children. Both women later died of pregnancy, both consistently struggling with fertility & having multiple traumatic pregnanies.

Older Mothers

Rhaenys I had Aenys at 32 & Visenya I had Maegor when 41: it is likely that The Conquerors postponed the matter of children until post-conquest. Queen Alyssa Velaryon was 31 when Jaehaerys I was born, his being her 4th child. Dowager Queen Alyssa later died of pregnancy, by her 2nd husband, aged 43.

Mysterious Women

There is little to no information on: • Lady Valaena Velaryon, mother of The Conquerors,

• Queen Myriah Martell, mother of Kings Aerys I (1stborn) & Maekar I (4th child),

• nor Lady Dyanna Dayne, mother of Aegon V (her 5th child).

Dornish Mothers: speculation

Both Queen Myriah & Lady Dyanna were Dornish. Given that Myriah's marriage was key to a peace treaty (& Daeron II was dubbed "The Good") & Dyanna's was a love match, it can be assumed that they were no less than 16 for their 1st pregnancies & had no issues with fertility. Both women had multiple children, all of whom survived to adulthood (dying instead by accident, through folly, in battle, by being 102 years old, or in obscurity), it can also be assumed that their good health was valued.

Revisionist History:

Alicent Hightower

The evolving canon of ASOIAF confuses the details of Queen Alicent Hightower, mother of Aegon II (her 1stborn), though GRRM has professed preference to HotD's telling of The Dance. The Alicent of F&B was a mother at 19; in HotD, Alicent was 14/15. Until further confirmation, Queen Alicent will be left out of accountings though it is likely that Future Revisions will hold HotD's portrayals as truth & F&B's as mistaken or "revised".

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Did I just see what I just saw

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Betha Blackwood “Black Betha” wife of Aegon V

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and posting part 3 as well! reminder that i know Dyanna Dayne never actually became queen, but i wanted to include her

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King Aegon V and Queen Betha

by nataa.draws on instagram

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Reflections on how Rhaenyra lost her beauty

It's amazing how persistently people shout that Rhaenyra has gained a lot of excess weight after three pregnancies and at the age of twenty she "lost all her beauty."

Alyssa Velaryon bore her first husband, Aenys, six children. But, attention, no one is saying that she has become ugly and unwanted. In fact, this lustful animal, Rogar, continued to sleep with her even after Alyssa was forty years old and everyone around her believed that she could no longer become pregnant.

Elinor Costayne was nineteen years old and had three children with her first husband. And she was still an attractive woman. She did not lose her beauty after the birth of three children.

Alysanne Targaryen gave birth to thirteen children. But the maesters tactfully keep silent about the impact that a lot pregnancies had on Alysanne’s appearance.

Daenaera Velaryon bore her husband five children in eight years. Daeron was born in 143, Baelor in 144, Daena in 145, Rhaena in 147, Elaena was born in 150. Daenaera gave birth to her three eldest children, one after the other, every year. And nowhere is it mentioned that Daenaera became ugly.

Elaena Targaryen gave birth to seven children, but it is mentioned that as she grew older she became even more beautiful than in her youth.

Rohanne of Tyrosh, wife of Daemon Blackfyre, gave birth more than seven times, but no one bothered to hound her and discuss her appearance.

Dyanna Dayne, Maekar Targaryen's wife, bore him six children, but again, her appearance is never mentioned or discussed.

Betha Blackwood bore five children with Aegon V and again there was no discussion of her appearance.

Rhaenyra is literally the only woman who has been harassed and abused in every possible way for her appearance. The appearance of all the other women who often gave birth to children did not turn them into the hulking monsters that some fans believe Rhaenyra to be, or were not mentioned at all by the maesters. Do you know why?

All of them were either consorts of kings or were not such important political figures. But at the request of the king, Rhaenyra went against the traditions of Westeros and became the first woman to become queen in her own right, and not as a consort. Rhaenyra's only sin was that she was a woman who had power that no other woman in Westeros had. Rhaenyra never asked her father to make her his heir, but she accepted the king's will and fought for what was rightfully hers. But we all read how the patriarchal inhabitants of Westeros and the Cetadelle reacted to this. I'm willing to bet money that if Rhaenyra had not been Viserys's heir, then in the chronicles the courtiers would continue to talk about her as a hot beauty.

It's really funny that Mushroom writes that Rhaenyra was jealous of Alicent's appearance, but Alicent herself was not as beautiful as her daughter Helaena, and Helaena was described as not as bright and beautiful as most Targaryens, and Rhaenyra as a teenager was one of the most beautiful maidens Westeros. And do you really believe that because Rhaenyra gave birth to three sons, she instantly went from hot Valyrian beauty to ugly one?

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Queen Betha Blackwood and King Aegon V

Game by Elequinoa

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🍂🍁 Queen Betha Blackwood 🍁🍂

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queen cersei lannister, at her wedding to king robert baratheon i, 284 AC.

visenya and rhaenys, alyssa velaryon, the six wives of maegor, alysanne, aemma arryn, alicent hightower and rhaenyra i, helaena, jaehaera, daenaera velaryon, daena the defiant, naerys, myriah nymeros martell, aelinor penrose, betha blackwood, shaera, rhaella