#jeyne westerling wife of maegor

[bardsansa]

the six wives of maegor the cruel

visenya and rhaenys, alyssa velaryon

[athzhowakar]

Queen of Hidden Evils (Chapter II)

✒️ Maegor × Toxic OC wife

✒️ Summary: Lord Rosby has accepted King Maegor's marriage proposal for his widowed sister. The Rosbys arrive at the Red Keep for the wedding. Rhaena sees Maegor's new wife and feels that she needs a taste of her uncle's new wife too. (Wedding & bedding ceremony)

✒️ Trigger warning: Mature content

✒️ Previous part: Chapter I

Red Keep:

The sound of carriages and horses approached the gates of the Red Keep. The carriages finally arrived and the travellers stepped out. The herald announced, “Lord Jon Rosby and Lady Elinor Rosby, the Lord and the Lady of Rosby. Lord Rosby's sister, Lady Lucinda Rosby and his niece, Lady Prunella Stokeworth.”

The guests saw a young silver haired lady standing there to welcome them. She was dressed in a purple silk gown. The lavish dress and the ornaments made it easier for them to recognise her.

Rhaena did not really want to welcome them but Maegor insisted that she should. So as it was planned, Rhaena stood there along with her ladies-in-waiting and watched the newly arrived guests with the eyes of a hawk.

Rhaena did not know how to feel about Lucinda. Her uncle had married several women besides herself. She found Ceryse to be rather stubborn and Alys was an adulteress who tried to betray none other than Maegor himself. Tyanna was an evil sorceress and Jeyne seemed rather uninteresting. Elinor seemed to be full of hatred while lacking courage to kill Maegor herself.

However, Lucinda was not like any of them. Rhaena wondered how she must have felt when she became the cause of her husband's death and why she remained unmarried for so many years.

Rhaena saw Lucinda walking towards her. She had worn a black gown and a grey headdress which was studded with rubies. It was an odd combination of colours but nevertheless, it looked good on her. Lady Lucinda, a woman of eight and twenty years of age, was way older than Rhaena and Elinor, the only surviving wives of Maegor. There was no hint of child-like innocence on her round face. However, she was extremely beautiful in a way that no one else was. “Where was she hiding all these years?” Rhaena wondered.

Soon enough, Rhaena and Lucinda were standing face-to-face. Lucinda greeted Rhaena with a curtsy and a smile on her face.

“Your admirers don't do justice to your beauty, My Lady,” Rhaena said.

Lucinda laughed and said, “You flatter me, Your Grace. My beauty will go begging in front of your youthful face and beauty.”

Rhaena instructed one of the servants to show the guests, their chambers. She then walked to Maegor's chamber and found him wiping the sweat off his body.

Maegor looked at her and smirked. “I was sparring in the training yard. If I had known that my wife was looking for me, I would have returned earlier,” he said.

Rhaena sighed and replied, “I came here to tell you that the Rosbys have arrived. And Uncle, I saw her.”

“Whom?” Maegor asked.

“Lucinda Rosby,” Rhaena replied.

Maegor placed a necklace on her neck and kissed her ears saying, “Do not fuck her before I do.”

Rhaena snapped at him, “What makes you think that I am going to do that?”

In response, Maegor said no word and kissed Rhaena on her lips.

The wedding took place a week later. It was attended by all the Lords and Ladies of the Seven Kingdoms.

The ceremony took place in the Grand Sept atop Visenya's Hill. When it was time for the ceremony, Lucinda and Maegor stood in front of each other. Lord Rosby removed his sister's cloak and Maegor placed a cloak of his own house colours her shoulders. They took their vows and the septon declared them man and wife.

The wedding feast however, took place in the Red Keep. It was a grand feast with meat of seven kinds, fishes of five kinds and wine of eight kinds. Lucinda sat quietly at the high table beside Maegor and ate only lamb meat. Maegor noticed that his wife did not even drink a single sip of wine. He was curious but still, he did not exchange any word with her during the feast.

Rhaena seemed to be more excited about this wedding than Maegor himself. Maegor knew the reason even if others didn't. As the feast ended, she announced, “My Lords and Ladies, now it is time for the bedding ceremony.”

Everyone started shouting, “Bed them! Bed them! Bed them!”

Rhaena announced, “My Lords, you may escort Queen Lucinda to the King's chamber. My Ladies can help the King. His Grace is more than willing to go if beautiful ladies call him.”

Maegor did not know whether he was supposed to feel embarrassed or angry at Rhaena's words.

The Lords were afraid of touching Lucinda. Who knows what might incur the wrath of Maegor the Cruel? So they just accompanied her as she walked towards Maegor's chamber.

The Ladies weren't interested in disrobing Maegor either. However, Rhaena seemed unnaturally enthusiastic about that. She joked about Ser Bennard Stokeworth, Lucinda's dead husband and his paramour's death as she pinched Maegor and took off his clothing one by one.

Finally, Maegor entered his chamber in only his pants and found his fully dressed wife standing in front of him.

“The Lords weren't interested in disrobing you, it seems,” Maegor remarked.

“Mayhaps it is because, the last man who saw me naked died,” Lucinda replied with a straight face.

Maegor was slightly disturbed by that. With an awkward smile, he said, “And the women who see me naked stay alive all the time. That might have encouraged the ladies to disrobe me.”

With a scary smile on her face, which widened as she approached Maegor, Lucinda asked, “Did it really?”

“Mayhaps,” Maegor replied.

He held his wife's waist and pulled her closer. Lucinda made him sit at the edge of the bed. Then she sat on his lap. Maegor pulled her face closer by holding her chin and kissed her lips. The reciprocal was fierce and Lucinda managed to bite his lower lips and draw blood.

Lucinda's left hand glided on Maegor's bare back. Her right hand was playing with the hair on his chest.

“You seem to like my chest hair a lot,” Maegor said.

“I have never seen anyone with silver chest hair before,” Lucinda replied.

Maegor slowly untied the laces of his wife's gown. Once he was done, he was met with the sight of her milky white teats with pink nipples. Lucinda bit her lips as he began to play with her nipples.

Seeing that, Maegor squeezed her teats which made her gasp. He did that again and she bit his ear and then kissed it. She tried to stand up but Maegor pulled her back to his lap.

“Not so soon, my little berry,” Maegor said.

He started sucking her nipples and Lucinda could not stop herself from moaning. He then placed her on the bed and pulled off her gown completely. She was then fully naked in front of him. He touched the stretch marks on her belly and licked her navel.

Her cunt was properly shaved. However, Maegor could see some tiny sprouts of hair from which he could deduce that her cunt hair was black just like the hair on her head. He pinched the clitoris which made Lucinda scream.

“Your Grace! It hurts!” she screamed.

“Pleasure comes after pain, my little berry. Have patience,” he replied, laughing.

He teased it as she kept wriggling and after sometime, she shot her fluids right at him. Lucinda took heavy breaths. Maegor then left her clitoris which was sore by this point. He then proceeded to put one finger inside her cunt. It slid inside very easily. That one finger was followed by two more. Lucinda grabbed the bedsheet and her nails bore holes into it as Maegor moved his fingers in and out of her cunt. She reached her peak once again. She felt Maegor taking out the three fingers that were inside. She had thought that it was over but just then, Maegor inserted his entire hand into her cunt. She screamed so loudly that it almost burst Maegor's eardrums. But he did not care. He continued to do what he was doing. Soon enough, his wife reached her peak once again and shot a load of fluid right at him.

By this time, Maegor's bed looked so wet that a man would assume that someone had urinated on it.

Maegor took off his pants and let out his cock which looked like a snake which was ready to bite. His cock was painfully hard. He thrust it inside Lucinda's cunt and kept moving it in and out. He lifted her legs and put them on his shoulders for better access. Within no time, his wife reached her peak. Maegor tightened his grip on her thighs and quickened his pace. Lucinda had no control of her throat anymore. Her sounds of pleasure were echoing in the corridors. She screamed as she peaked again.

Maegor loosened his grip a little and taking advantage of that, she tried to pull down her legs from his shoulders. But Maegor tightened his grip, not letting her move. He kept thrusting her as deeper as he reached his own peak of pleasure and spilled his seeds into her womb. Lucinda stayed still so that his seeds may take root.

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To be continued

[green-watcher]

Maegor the Cruel had 6 wives total, largely due to his inability to produce an heir. They were Ceryse Hightower, Alys Harroway, Tyanna of the Tower, Elinor Costayne, Jeyne Westerling, and his niece Rhaena Targaryen. His first wife was Ceryse Hightower, whom he married in 25 AC, after the conquest.

[nervouscunt]

The many wives of King Maegor Targaryen.

From left to right : Ceryse Hightower, Tyanna of the Tower ( listen I know she's the third wife but aesthetically she looked better in the middle so roll with it ) and Alys Harroway.

The Black brides from left to right : Jeyne Westerling, Rhaena Targaryen and Elinor Costayne.

[goodqueenaly]

Not me remembering this -

Robb bristled at that. "The Westerlings are better blood than the Freys. They're an ancient line, descended from the First Men. The Kings of the Rock sometimes wed Westerlings before the Conquest, and there was another Jeyne Westerling who was queen to King Maegor three hundred years ago."

- and thinking about Lyanna potentially using a similar argument to justify (internally or externally, say to someone like Benjen) her would-be marriage to Rhaegar, perhaps ahead of her "abduction". Robb's argument about the historical Jeyne Westerling's royal Targaryen marriage as adding to the prestige of his Jeyne Westerling was far from ideal. After all, Maegor's triple marriage to the "Black Brides", Jeyne included, was a great scandal in his, Maegor's, own time (to say nothing of Jeyne's infamous death in childbirth delivering "a legless and armless creature possessed of both male and female genitalia"); moreover, Maegor's only attraction (if the word can even be used) to Jeyne was in her proven fertility (though Jeyne's status as the widow of a man Maegor and his supporters had killed in battle may have added to her appeal in the eyes of the sadistic king). Anyone with this knowledge of Westerosi history, therefore, might have raised an eyebrow at Robb trying to use the historical Jeyne Westerling to bolster his new wife's queenly credentials - but Robb, desperate to claim whatever merit he could for Jeyne to support a marriage he very well knew had been a costly political error, was willing to use even this shaky argument if it could equate his Jeyne with her queenly indirect ancestress.

Similarly, Lyanna may have convinced herself that she could marry Rhaegar by using somehat or even quite weak historical Targaryen precedents. If Lyanna wanted Rhaegar to marry her - and I think she did, so that she could escape marriage to Robert - perhaps she believed she could enter into such a marriage because the Targaryens had in the past taken multiple wives. Of course, such an argument, if Lyanna had made it, would have been at best imperfect: according to Yandel, while "[s]ome of the sorcerer princes [of Valyria] also took more than one wife when it pleased them", this practice "was less common than incestuous marriage". Again, the example of Maegor would have been as unhappy a reminder to Lyanna as it might have been to Robb: the Black Brides generally were as poor an argument in support of Targaryen polygamy as Jeyne Westerling specifically was in support of her family's royal worthiness. Yet just as Robb was eager to find some grounds on which to defend Jeyne as a worthy bride for him in what was clearly a fraught political situation, so Lyanna may have been eager to defend her desire to marry Rhaegar in a situation she may well have believed would cause substantial political uproar - defying not just her father and erstwhile fiancé, but the Lord of Winterfell and the Lord of Storm's End.

In other words, it's not just Arya and Sansa who resemble Lyanna, something something Stark generational paralels.

[hvrricqneeee]

Jeyne Westerling (wife of Maegor I aka Maegor The Cruel) died in child birth at the age of 20, with her labour beginning three months early, giving birth to a stillborn child, monstrous, lacking arms and legs but possessing both male and female genitalia. Jeyne herself died soon after.

Alyssa Velaryon (mother of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne) remarried to Rogar Baratheon and gave him a son, Boremund, and never fully recovered from the birth. Three years later, 47 year old Alyssa became pregnant and went into labour early, and because of this was on the brink of death. Rogar Baratheon order the maester to save the child, killing Alyssa.

Daella Targaryen (Rhaenyra’s maternal grandmother) dies giving birth to her daughter and only child: Aemma Arryn

Alyssa Targaryen died due to never fully recovering from giving birth to a son because she wanted to give her husband “an army of sons”.

Gael Targaryen (Rhaenyra’s great aunt), at the age of 19 was seduced and impregnable free d by a travelling singer. Gael gave birth to a stillborn son, and overwhelmed with grief, she walked into the black water bay and drowned.

Aemma Arryn has multiple miscarriages (at least five) and dies because she is cut open because Viserys wanted a son that badly, only for that son to die mere hours later.

Rhaenyra Targaryen wasn’t just scared of childbirth and pregnancy because of her mother, but because of all of these women.

[foxyanon]

The Seven Wives of King Maegor

A little backstory for Rhaenerys and her family, a precursor history for my To Love A Dragon series.

Please know I am changing much to better fit with my story. I will keep it canon where I can, but I will be aging most everyone up because it’s really weird that GRRM had Maegor marrying his first wife at FUCKING THIRTEEN?! Yeah, not around here partner, he’s gonna be eighteen instead because I said so. Rhaenerys will be 16 at the start of the series (this will make sense later), however her age is mostly irrelevant to the story in the beginning (again, this will make sense later since I am changing canon dates and meshing them with the TLK timeline).

Maesters write that despite pressure from the High Septon and Grand Maester, King Aenys I Targaryen never forbade his younger brother, then Prince Maegor, from marrying numerous woman. When asked why, he simply stated that House Targaryen would continue to follow Valyrian customs as he and his kin were not of Andal, Rhoynar or First Men ancestry. This only assuaged the Faith a little, but they accepted fully when Dowager Queen Visenya proclaimed she would visit Oldtown astride Vhagar and remind them why they bent to Targaryen rule.

Maegor married his first wife, Ceryse Hightower, in mid 30AC at the Starry Sept in Oldtown. When the marriage was said to be barren, Maegor took Alys Harroway as his second wife in early 31AC. During a trip to Essos in mid 31AC, Maegor met his third wife, Tyanna and was wed to her shortly thereafter. When all three marriages failed to result in a pregnancy, Maegor was once again searching for another wife. It was during a visit to Winterfell in early 32AC where Maegor met his fourth wife, Elvira Harclay. They were wed in the Godswood at Winterfell after just three days, rumors that Maegor had bedded his new bride before the wedding spreading like wildfire. He brought the then Lady Elvira to Dragonstone, where she gave birth to a healthy girl, much to the frustration of Lady Tyanna.

After the death of King Aenys I in 42AC, Maegor ascended the throne and was crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms by his mother, Dowager Queen Visenya. Despite the late king having named his eldest son, Prince Aegon, his heir, the prince and his sister-wife, Princess Rhaena, were besieged at Crakehall by members of the Poor Fellows. After learning of Maegor’s coronation, the Poor Fellows left Crakehall and marched on King’s Landing which allowed Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena to flee to Casterly Rock, where the princess then gave birth to the twins, Aerea and Rhaella.

Even though Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon wished to challenge Maegor for the throne on behalf of the young Prince Aegon, he stayed her hand and departed Casterly Rock in mid 42AC for Kings Landing with his family to swear fealty to his uncle. Prince Aegon recognized that he was just a boy of 16 and not prepared to handle to the responsibility of a kingdom. King Maegor spared his life and allowed him to live out his days on Dragonstone.

In late 43AC, King Maegor crowned his wife, Elvira Harclay, as his Queen and equal and named his 11 year old daughter, Rhaenerys, the Princess of Dragonstone. This would only be a short lived celebration, as just a few months later in early 44AC, Alys Harroway birthed a stillborn child and died in childbed. The same fate befell Ceryse Hightower in mid 45AC.

Prince Aegon died mysteriously in his bed in 46AC during a trip to King’s Landing, alongside his younger brother, Prince Viserys. Maester Desmond claimed that Maegor’s wife, Tyanna, had poisoned the princes. This claim was never confirmed and the maester executed for treason. King Maegor, in an effort to produce more heirs after the sudden deaths of his nephews, opted to marry three final woman of proven fertility. Known as the Black Brides, the former widows Elinor Costayne, Rhaena Targaryen and Jeyne Westerling were all wed to Maegor on the same day with their children from their previous marriages in attendance.

In early 48AC, Elinor Costayne delivered a stillborn child. Enraged that he only had one living heir, Maegor set himself on a warpath to determine why his wives were failing to deliver healthy children. It was only then that it was discovered that Queen Tyanna had been poisoning the other queens over the years because she was jealous she herself could not conceive. King Maegor had her executed for treason, though he accepted that Rhaenerys would be the only child he would have.

Throughout his rule, King Maegor managed to put down the Faith uprisings and rebellions that had popped up across the kingdom, effectively earning him the moniker Maegor the Cruel for his brutality. Even though he was feared, his daughter was beloved by both the lords of the realm and the people, many remarking that they were unsure if the princess was truly Maegor’s daughter though never within earshot of the King.

As he only had one child, Maegor doted on and spoiled Rhaenerys, taking her on rides on the back of Balerion before she claimed her own dragon, Abraxsas at the age of eight. She was as gifted with swordplay as he was, and on her 13th nameday, she was gifted Dark Sister by her father. She studied High Valyrian under the tutelage of her grandmother, Dowager Queen Visenya, and was as studious as her own mother, Queen Elvira. While many men within the realm wished to betroth their sons to the young princess, Maegor decided to hold a Betrothal Tourney in mid 48AC to determine who would vie for his daughter’s hand. If any of the lords could best him throughout the week long event, they would have earned the right to wed the princess. None were able to, and by late 48AC, Rhaenerys had set sail on a diplomatic mission to the Saxon Kingdoms at just 16 years of age.

In order of marriage:

-Ceryse Hightower (30AC-45AC): Anita Briem

-Alys Harroway (31AC-44AC): Katilyn Denver

-Tyanna of the Tower (31AC-48AC): Eva Green

-Elvira Harlclay (32AC-): Katie McGrath

-Elinor Costayne (46AC-): Lea Seydoux

-Rhaena Targaryen (46AC-): Jodie Comer

-Jeyne Westerling (46AC-): Caitlin Stasey

Just a little something @zaldritzosrose made for me with the face claims for the wives of Maegor to pair with my Rhaenerys stories. Many thanks my love! 😘

[coineagan]

Queen Jeyne Westerling

Wife of Lord Alyn Tarbeck & then King Maegor I Targaryen.

Mother to Lord Tarbeck. Jeyne had a stillborn child with Maegor.

Reigned as Queen Consort from 47 - 48 AC.

[witchthewriter]

𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝟺𝑡𝘩 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑟'𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠

ISFJ

Ravenclaw

Lawful Good

Cancer Sun, Virgo Moon, Leo Rising

"But his third wife couldn't give him a child either. Desperate to cement his stolen throne with an heir, Maegor took three wives at once, known as the Black Brides because each were women he'd widowed in his wars. All three women grew full with child in time, but each gave birth to the same twisted monstrosities as his second wife. One need not be a maester, much less a Grand Maester, to deduce the common thread here."―Varys

A noblewoman from House Costayne, Elinor was one of the three 'Black Brides,' along with Lady Jeyne Westerling and Princess Rhaena Targaryen.

Elinor had three children with her first husband, Ser Theo Bolling. He was arrested by Maegor's Kingsguard and executed as he was accused of conspiring with Queen Alyssa to put Jaehaerys on the throne.

After seven days of mourning, Elinor was summoned to wed Maegor. The king forced Elinor's sons' at the wedding so she would play her part in the ceremony. According to one tale, Elinor scratched Maegor's back to bloody ribbons as they coupled.

Elinor's sons were sent away after she wed Maegor. Her eldest was fostered at the Eyrie, her second son to Highgarden, and her youngest was given to a wet nurse.

When Tyanna admitted to poisoning Alys Harroway during her pregnancy, Tyanna promised the same would happen to Elinor.

Tyanna had been telling the truth. Elinor had given birth to an eyeless stillborn with small wings.

Elinor was one of only two wives who survived the king. The other was Rhaena Targaryen.

After the death of Maegor, Lord Daemon Velaryon proposed that King Jaehaerys marry Queen Elinor to reconcile with Maegor's supporters, but nothing came of that proposal.

After Jaehaery's ascent, Elinor left King's Landing dressed in the robes of a penitent. She visited her two elder sons at the Eyrie and Highgarden before retiring to her father's seat at the Three Towers with her youngest son.

Later, King Jaehaerys commanded Elinor to go forth and spread his Doctrine of Exceptionalism to the peoples of the Seven Kingdoms, as well as the goodness of Jaehaerys and Alysanne, becoming one of the Seven Speakers.

Her queenly clothes became shabbier and more threadbare each day, and she eventually gave up all claims to nobility, becoming Mother Elinor at the great motherhouse in Lannisport

[amnevitahdrawsstuff]

Queen Jeyne Westerling

Fifth wife of King Maegor.

[yellowsocialbunny]

the six wives of king maegor the cruel

Queen Ceryse Hightower was a noblewoman from House Hightower and was the daughter of Lord Manfred Hightower of Oldtown. Her maternal uncle was one of the High Septons during the reign of King Aegon I Targaryen. She eventually married Prince Maegor Targaryen, becoming his first (of many) wives.

Queen Alys Harroway was a noblewoman from House Harroway during the reign of kings Aegon I, Aenys I and Maegor I Targaryen. She was the daughter of Lord Lucas Harroway of Harrenhal and Maegor's second wife.

Queen Tyanna of the Tower, also known as Tyanna of Pentos, was a courtesan from Pentos who married King Maegor I Targaryen, becoming the third of his six wives. Tyanna was a pale beauty with black hair the color of a raven. Her name may come from the fact that Pentos is known for its square brick towers. Tyanna is said to have dabbled in sorcery and alchemy. She is remembered as a black-hearted woman who was hated and feared.

Queen Rhaena Targaryen was forcefully married to her uncle, King Maegor I Targaryen, who had usurped and killed her husband Aegon, becoming one of his Black Brides. She had lively lilac eyes and silver-gold hair. At eighteen, Rhaena was considered brave, fierce and headstrong. As an adult, she was sometimes stern and sometimes shy, frequently brooding. Rhaena had no interest in other people's children, but was possessive of her own, and of people she loved. She was furious when betrayed, and scornful of those she did not trust.

Queen Elinor Costayne was a noblewoman from House Costayne and one of the many brides of King Maegor I Targaryen. Along with Lady Jeyne Westerling and Princess Rhaena Targaryen, she was one of the so-called "Black Brides".

Queen Jeyne Westerling was a member of House Westerling. She was one of the six wives of King Maegor I Targaryen. Jeyne was tall and slender, with lustrous brown hair.

descriptions by A Wiki of Ice and Fire

[targwh0re]

The Six Wives of Maegor the Cruel

Ceryse Hightower, 25AC-45AC (Abandoned)

Divorced

My name's Catherine Of Aragon

Was married 24 years, I'm a paragon

Of royalty, my loyalty is to the Vatican

So if you try to dump me

You won't try that again

Alys Harroway, 39AC-44AC (Killed by Maegor/on his order)

Beheaded

For my promiscuity outside of wed

Lock up your husbands, lock up your sons

K Howard is here, and the fun's begun

Tyanna of the Tower, 42AC-48AC (Killed by Maegor/on his orders)

Beheaded

I'm that Boleyn girl

And I'm up next

See, I broke England from the Church

Yeah, I'm that sexy

Why did I lose my head?

Well, my sleeves may be green

But my lipstick's red!

Elinor Costayne, 47AC-48AC (Survived)

Survived

Five down, I'm the final wife

I saw him to the end of his life

I'm the survivor, Catherine Parr

I bet you wanna know how I got this far

I said, I bet you wanna know how I got this far

Jeyne Westerling, 47AC-47/48AC? (Died in childbirth)

Died

Jane Seymour, the only one he truly loved

Rude

When my son was newly born, I died

But I'm not what I seem

Or am I?

Stick around, and you'll suddenly see more

Rhaena Targaryen, 47AC-48AC (Escaped; so basically divorced his ass)

Divorced

Ich bin Anna of Cleves

Ja

When he saw my portrait he was like

Ja!

But I didn't look as good as I did in my pic

Funny how we all discuss that, but never Henry's little…

[maegorsbignaturals]

WHAT WERE CERYSE HIGHTOWER, ALYS HARROWAY, TYANNA OF THE TOWER, ELINOR COSTAYNE, JEYNE WESTERLING PERSONALITIES!? WHAT WERE THEIR PERSONALITY, I DON'T CARE ABOUT MAEGOR I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THEM! I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM, NOT MAEGOR HE'S ALREADY KNOWN! I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIS WIVES (Besides Rhaena, she's known but the other wives aren't!!)

I think that is one of the saddest parts of F&B, that GRRM did not focus a lot on their personalities, despite being clearly inspired by Henry VIII and his wives. Besides Rhaena and perhaps Tyanna, there is not a lot we can say for the rest of Maegor's wives, i mean, we really never get a reaction of Alys about being called a whore all across Westeros, neither we get one of Ceryse about Maegor taking a new wife. Like, yes, she was offended, her uncle demanded for Maegor to return with her and eventually she went back to oldtown, but despite that? Nothing. I mean, PERHAPS, we could say she actually stepped down his feet and actually talked back at Maegor, and she died when one of Maegor's kingsguards tried to cut her tongue. But by the way their relationship looked by that moment i doubt it, but if we take this rumour this might mean Ceryse was someone that spoke up her mind when something was not of her like. From Tyanna we can say she is tricky, ambitious, and clever, she did not doubted to throw Alys under the bus when she saw in her an obstacle to have Maegor's favor over her. But Elynor and Jeyne? They have no other personalities than being Maegor's sorry wife Number 1 and Maegor's sorry wife 2. AND IT INFURIATES ME!!! I really would like to know what was the personality of the woman who SUPPOSEDLY killed Maegor while being nineteen (and a mother, on top of that). Jeyne's aportation to the story is literally dying in childbirth so Maegor could think "Okay yeah something is fishy in here". Not only they deserved better than Maegor but they deserved better ON WRITING.

I really like the idea of Ceryse being like this highborn noble lady really well-educated. Not only she is fine in arts and embroidery and do her praying like the good niece of the high septon but she also is really interested in history of Westeros like she knows every king an queen's name from the reach before the conquest, and she is also deep dives into philosophy. Like i really like her to be a bit stoic but not in the sense of all sternity, but like, oh well, my husband left me for a girl that is younger than me and said it was thanks to my sterility, well, crying and screaming and tearing my hair apart is not going to work so i should ask for the help of my family (Her uncle, Aenys, and Alyssa), and when that not work then i should go back to my home where i have some real power still.

On Alys ooooh Alys is quite the difficult topic because i really like her being the older daughter of Lord Harroway so pretty and beautiful and perhaps a bit pampered for her own good trapped on her little fairytale dream of a prince in shinning armour at her feet, BUT lets remember F&b is not a 100% reliable source and maybe, just maybe, Alys was not so comfortable with the arrangement and being called whore on every pulpit of westeros. But yeah, i think the closest to how alys may have been is the first one, perhaps a bit pampered but cheerful, naive at some extent because she never thought -nor her family at there- that she would be queen of westeros at some point. Perhaps all the deal with Maegor was a chance of once in a life time she and her family had and well, you really tought she was going to let it pass?

Jeyne is like, really, really shy! A bit simple minded but sweet, altough she is a constant wreckage of nerves while she founds herself on tense situations. I like to think she, Rhaena and Elinor had a pretty good freindship or at least a partnership while they where on king's landing because her trauma is a really specific taste of trauma that who other person other than them could understand them? Elinor on the other hand,,, i really like to think she has been always one second away from killing Maegor, probably not her first rodeo in this of getting married with men twice her age against her wishes.

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Anon that asked for Maegor's wives here!!! Omg, i totally loved your takes about the first three wives (I call them myself "The laughning wives" bcs they married Maegor "happily and laughning" hehe). So, now your takes on the "Black brides", do you think Maegor letted them had their mourning clothes or got her all covered in gold that weighted like chains over them? And for the general fashion of the court? I am sorry if this are a lot of questions, i just really enjoy your fashion takes!

Thank you dear sweet baby anon 🫶

Being from the Reach, Elinor dressed in the traditional fashions, but based on what we are given about her character, she seems to be a somber and modest woman. Even before she was married to Maegor, she dressed simply, still fitting for a noblewoman but nothing flashy. After her husbands murder she probably never wore anything other than black, unless Maegor forced her into something else. Even her wedding dress was a plain black mourning gown. Once Maegor died and she became a septa to Jaehaerys, she never ditched the bare bones simplicity and coverage of her mourning clothes, dressing like a commoner for the rest of her days

Rhaena was never exceedingly extravagant, even when her father was king and she wasn’t on the run. Her outfits were always made from the finest of materials but never flashy, looking like they belonged on a merchants wife. Once Maegor called her forward, he probably dressed her in richly decorated, low cut, large skirted gowns more fitting to her station, as a way to anger his niece (though they were always black, as he took pride in causing the death of the husbands of his three brides). After she escaped and Jaehaerys was made king, she reverted back to her old fashion. However in the years that followed Elissa’s betrayal, her mother’s death in childbirth, the poisoning of her companions, and the brutal death of Aerea she became increasingly bitter and closed off. She put almost no effort into how she looked, allowing herself to be dressed like an old merchants widow until the end of her days

Poor Jeyne Westerling dressed in the typical fashions of the Westerlands once her mourning period had ended (fashions similar to the reach) with slim skirts and high waists and gauzy veils. After Maegor sets sights on her, he dresses her in black once more, the simple and elegant mourning gowns to parade his new bride around in. Once she falls pregnant, a rarely elated Maegor allows her whatever she desires, and lauds her with extravagant gifts, clothing included. Up until the day of her untimely death, she was wearing cloth of gold skirts and puffy sleeves the size of her head.

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TWOIAF/Fire & Blood: The Pregnancies And Deaths Of Two Queens

Warning, Spoilers Ahead…

It has been half a year since Maegor wed his Black Brides. Edwell Celtigar, the King’s Hand, announced that Queen Jeyne was with child. Maegor announced Queen Elinor’s pregnancy shortly afterwards.

Rhaena Targaryen never had an announced pregnancy. Was someone slipping her moon tea or did the incestuous Targaryen genes collide and prevent any pregnancy?

Maegor “showered both women with gifts and honors, and granted new lands and offices to their fathers, brothers, and uncles”.

Queen Jeyne was six months pregnant when she went into labor. She delivered a stillborn child “as monstrous as the one Alys Harroway had birthed , a legless and armless creature possessed of both male and female genital.” Jeyne died shortly afterwards.

Maegor and Herny VIII have several parallels when it comes to their wives:

Katherine of Aragorn/Ceryse Hightower – the first, faithful wife who is set aside

Anne Boleyn/Alys Harroway – executed on baseless charges

Jane Seymour/Jeyne Westerling – the pregnant wife who dies while giving birth

Anne of Cleves/Lord Celtigar’s sister – the “ugly” one the king rejects

Catherine Howard/Tyanna of the Tower – The only real resemblance between the two is their execution

Catherine Parr/Elinor Costayne/Rhaena Targaryen – The survivors after the king’s death

Men blamed the stillbirth on Maegor. They said he was cursed as was a kinslayer who made war against the Faith and the High Septon, defied the gods, committed murder and incest, adultery and rape. “His privy parts were poisoned, his seed full of worms, the gods would never grant him a living son.”

Maegor came to a different conclusion: He had Ser Owen Bush and Ser Maldon Moore to seize Queen Tyanna and deliver her to the dungeons. Tyanna made a full confession: she poisoned Jeyne Westerling and Alys Harroway’s wombs. She promised the same would happen to Elinor’s whelp.

Maegor slew Tyanna himself, “cutting out her heart with Blackfyre and feeding it to his dogs”.

The next month, Elinor delivered a “malformed and stillborn child, an eyeless boy born with rudimentary wings”.

The question remains: Did Tyanna poison the wombs of the three women or did Maegor’s genetics/nature of his conception play a factor in the stillbirths? We know Tyanna “confessed” but that could have been Tyanna goading Maegor into a murderous rage to ensure a quick death. Tyanna, of all people, would know what Maegor is capable of and would want to avoid an “Alys/Viserys” fate.

 I believe Tyanna caused the deaths of Alys Harroway and Visenya Targaryen. I’m not sure if Tyanna factored into Jeyne Westerling’s stillbirth. Jeyne’s child didn’t have any of the typical characteristics of the Targaryen “dragon babies” that pop up throughout the bloodline. I’d say there is a slim chance. I don’t know if Tyanna would be foolish enough to poison Jeyne in the same manner as Alys. Tyanna would have been smart enough to realize Maegor would come to the conclusion that he did and it would have ended badly for her (which it did).

Elinor’s stillbirth was pure Targaryen “dragon baby”.

The bigger question remains…was Maegor infertile?

Maegor was married to Ceryse for 18 years (separated for 5), wed to Alys for 6 years, and wed to Tyanna for 6 years. It is unknown if he took any lovers outside of the marital bed. I know an alleged bastard of Maegor will turn up during the Great Council but his claim is dubious. If Maegor had a bastard, even from a member of the smallfolk, he would have brought him/her to court if only to prove he could sire a child. His inability to sire a child has been hanging over his head for decades - Maegor has blamed Ceryse but until he sired a child, the question of who is infertile remains unknown.

If Maegor isn’t infertile, he suffers from low fertility. He was married for decades – at times to multiple women – and it only resulted in three known pregnancies.

He never sired a child with Ceryse Hightower. We can’t say for certain if Ceryse was barren as she had no other known lovers besides Maegor. Maegor claimed she was barren, but his infertility could have been the issue.

The first wife of Maegor to become pregnant was Alys Harroway. She gave birth to a stillborn, deformed son in the third month of pregnancy. The stillborn baby did not have the characteristics of the stillborn “dragon” babies that Laena, Rhaenyra, and Daenerys will later give birth to. So, either a stillbirth caused by non-magical defects or one induced by Tyanna via poison or magical means. We will never know if Alys would be able to conceive again as she was executed for alleged “infidelity”.  I suppose the alleged infidelity could mean the baby was sired by a man other than Maegor but I think the charges were false.

Maegor was never able to impregnate Tyanna. It’s possible Maegor had the misfortune of marrying a second barren woman, but he could have been at fault.

Maegor’s marriages with his ���Black Brides” only lasted for a year or so.

Jeyne Westerling gave birth to a stillborn who had both male and female genitalia. Once again, no “dragon baby” characteristics.

Elinor Costayne gave birth to a stillborn child with “rudimentary” wings so this was a Targaryen “dragon baby”.

Maegor was never able to impregnate Rhaena Targaryen and she had a pair of twins with her first husband.

What caused Maegor’s fertility problems? Was it the nature of his conception, rumored to be magical in origin? Or was it his double-Targaryen genetics? A combination of both? Aenys, Maegor’s brother, had multiple children but its important to note that Aenys’ father may have not been a Targaryen. (Always a good thing to deepen the gene pool).

Up next, the downfall of Maegor the Cruel.