The seventeenth and last member of the Targaryen dynasty to rule over Westeros was King Aerys II Targaryen, often known as the Mad King. Prince Jaehaerys, King Aegon V’s second son, was the father of Aerys. According to Targaryen’s custom, Aerys married his sister Rhaella when he was still a teenager, but their marriage was never happy because they hated one other.
They would eventually fall in love but never be together despite their angry behaviour during the wedding. Rhaella briefly dated Ser Bonifer Hasty while Aerys surrounded himself with stunning young maids, but they would both eventually be ignored.
Aerys’ reign was tranquil for the first ten years. After the tragic events at Summerhall, the realm became wealthy and strong. The ambitious young Aerys had a number of lofty and fantastical schemes, including reconstructing King’s Landing out of marble, getting the Titan of Braavos to submit, constructing a second Wall 100 miles beyond the first to capture all the lands therein, and annexing the Stepstones into the Seven Kingdoms via conquest.
Aerys rapidly became weary of his previous loves and devoted himself to Rhaella (doing so obediently rather than lovingly). To Lord Tywin’s dismay, who had wanted to marry his daughter Cersei to Rhaegar, Rhaegar’s marriage to Princess Elia Martell strengthened the bonds between Dorne and the Martell family.
How did the Mad King die in ‘Game of Thrones’?
Jaime Lannister, one of Aerys’s Kingsguards, is the one who ends up killing him. Former friend and Hand Tywin Lannister tricked King Aerys by leading an army under the guise of defending King’s Landing.
Who killed the Mad King?
Jaime Lannister assassinated King Aerys.
