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BTW in the books Alicent was way older and Rhaenyra was younger. Also, it wasn't a choice between saving the mother or the baby. It was a choice between trying to save the baby, or let them both die.

No Baratheons or Arryns listed? Rhaenys was half Baratheon the reason for her comment during the tournament. Aemma is half Arryn.

Sor Criston Cole was never considered to marry, he is a king's guard, they serve for live and are forbidden to mary and have a family. Even if he wasn't a kind's guard, he is from a very irrelevant house, almost a low born.

Correction at 6:15, Viserys is told that Aemma is dying but the baby might be saved by the procedure. He is not presented with a choice that would save Aemma. Indeed, breech births were a death sentence for the mother before the advent of modern medicine.

As I see some others have pointed out Rhenys mother was Joceyln Baratheon her father's half-aunt. I think it would be great content for viewers to understand that Targaryens often married house Velaryon whenever they didn't have an appropriate Targayen siblings, or cousins available. For example Aegon the 1st mother was a velaryon. So was king Jaeherys mother.

Viserys’ choice wasn’t to save the mother or child, but to either actively try and save the child or do nothing and hope for the best.

A correction. Aemon didn't marry his sister. He was married to Jocelyn Baratheon, daughter of Rogar Baratheon and Alyssa Velaryon, the mother of the Old King Jaehaerys. So Aemon didn't marry his sister, he married his aunt.

2:38 Aemon was NOT married to his sister... he was actually married to his half-AUNT, Jocelyn Baratheon, daughter of his father's mother Alyssa with the head of House Baratheon, Rogar

The chart we have all been waiting for 😂

Side note, Aemon did not marry his sister, but his half-aunt Jocelyn Baratheon, younger half-sister of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne. That is why in the show Rhaenys and Corlys have close ties to the Baratheons. I actually like that they changed some things from the books, like Laenor being older then Laena Velaryon. The show is off to a good start and I cant wait for the next episode. I still get triggered when that awesome Targaryen theme makes me think of how dreadfully butchered the last few seasons were.

I feel like it deserved to be mentioned that in the book canon the two (final) candidates in the council of 101 were Viserys Targaryen and Laenor Velaryon, not Rhaenys Targaryen, his mother. Laenor even superseded his sister Laena, who is the older sibling in the book.

I'm so happy you're doing this, Matt! 😃 Targaryen genealogy is almost like "I'm my own grandpa."

Perfect video, there’s just a small error (9:50) Criston Cole is a royal guard, he’s not allowed to take wife, land, title or having any legitimate heir.

You should do a full House Targaryen Family Tree from Lord Aenar Targaryen back in Old Valyria to Daenerys Targaryen.

A correction, the choice Viserys had was not between his wife and his son but saving his son or losing them both.

I love this channel for always being my go to for maps and family trees I need but you’re truly the realest for this one bc you also put in so much lore. Amazing channel as always!!!

Considering recent events, perhaps a list of oldest Heir Apparents to inherit the throne from their predecessors? Since Charles is the oldest English heir to inherit. Curious to see who else in history outside of England had to wait so long.

I wish you made a full video of this with all the complete characters from the show/books.

Finally been waiting for this! The reason I found your channel was because of your video about GoT Houses family tree… stayed because the channel is informative.

Aemon was not married to his sister. He was married to Jocelyn Baratheon, who was his half aunt and cousin. Jocelyn was the half sister of king Jaehaerys I, being the child of Rogar Baratheon (great great grandson of Aerion Targaryen) and Alyssa Velaryon.

OMG!! As always your explanations are excellent! Now I understand way more of the show.

This greatly helps someone such as myself, who, decided to start GOT and HOD at the same time... lol As well as waited too long to indulge in GOT, I figured at some point, the 2 will intersect and reveal the rest. But this chart is super appreciated, Thank you.

Great video, cleared up a lot of confusion. I hope you do one on the tree for the rest of the season. I’ve watch a couple of other videos, yours are by far the best.

I love how this is, in a way, coming full circle, with Useful Charts' 2nd posted, and most viewed video being the Game of Thrones family tree.

As a suggestion, you could follow this up with a "line of succession" video at the end of the season, showing what the line of succession after Viserys would be under each of the different succession laws that each side advocated (essentially absolute vs. agnatic primogeniture). That would be a nice end-of-season video, since HotD season 1 will undoubtedly end with the big succession war just beginning.

Thank you for this video! It was very helpful when you highlighted the people & places as you spoke. 👍👏

Your creative commentary and insightful graphics have once again brought order to the chaos which is history, whether imagined or factual. In this delightful expose' of the popular television series, House of Dragons, you have really excelled in bringing amusement to your many viewers. You are truly what KZfaq is supposed to be: entertainment and information at its finest.

Aemon was actually married to his half-aunt Jocelyn Baratheon, daughter of Jaehaerys’s mother Alyssa Velaryon and Lord Rogar Baratheon

The analysis on the House of Dragons family tree is remarkable. Thank you. I'm looking forward for my information involving the characters' roles

this is actually crazy timing, i have been getting loads of GOT recommendations for some reason for the past three days, never even watched the show ! But I have been watching some of the vids I am being recommended and must say it looks like a very complex yet intriguing show

Thank you! This was very informative ⭐️

Jaehaerys wasn't made king after his grandfather's death. He was made king when his uncle Maegor the Cruel died and he was the grandson of Aegon I. Thus he is Jaehaerys I. His son Baelon was married to his sister Alyssa, but Aemon was married to his father's (Jaehaerys') half-sister Jocelyn. So Jocelyn was Aemon's half-aunt. Jocelyn Baratheon was the daughter of Rogar and Alyssa (Alyssa was the mother of Jaehaerys and Alyssane, the grandmother of Alyssa, Baelon and Aemon). In the show, Viserys can either save the baby or let both of them die. Most of us think the maesters lied about that, but it's what we know. Criston Cole isn't a possibility for Rhaenyra to marry because he is a kingsguard. These men are sworn to chastity and their life is their king.

Very crisp and clear information is provided in this video about the complex family tree of Targaryans. Kudos to the creator of this video.

I love how you talk very clearly.

In the original story, "The Rogue Prince" & "The Princess & the Queen", it was Viserys against Rhaenys, but in "Fire & Blood" Rhaenys was replaced by Laenor.

This was amazing and so interesting to read, even for someone who has read all the books. Thank you so much

Thanks...this was easy to follow and was just great

Thanks for this video, it is hard to keep in mind every names specifically if they almost sounds the same not to mention repeated names for the 1st or 2nd and so on. I'll be waiting for the update since there's another group of grandchildren or generation with the latest episode.

Please make a new one of these videos as the episodes continue on 😁👍🏼

Awesome video bro, as always 👍🏼👍🏼 Pls keep up the good work 💪🏼💪🏼

Love this video- thank you!! ASoIF genealogy and history can be so confusing at times. You explained a portion of the Targaryen family so clearly! 🫶🏼

Never thought that now I’ll have to watch series that include geopolitics and family trees of such extent, but in fact that’s quite interesting, because all of this is based on real history

Awesome video Matt, can you make a video about the procedures that occur after death of a Sovereign? RIP Queen Elizabeth II

Only Baelon Targaryen married his sister, Alyssa Targaryen. The other brother Aemon, married his aunt, Jocelyn Baratheon, half sister of Jaehaerys through their mother Alyssa Velaryon.🤪

Didn't expect a speakly advert. But i use it and love it

Anxious for a video about Middle-Earth lore, and the main family trees

Was just looking this up thank you

Thanks for the video i would really like to see the entire Targaryen Family tree From beginning to the end

If you allow me an improvement suggestion, consider giving bottom margin for subtitles. Non English people like me have subtitles in case we miss something you say and they usually seat on top of the names of the charts. Great content 🙂

Thank you for your video 👏

This was the most helpful video available

I am from Italy, i know a little bit of english, i activate subtitles because i was scaryed to not understand, but i want to compliments with you, because i really like your voice, is clearly, and relaxing ❤

LOVED THIS!

please do an updated one 💖💖💖💖

Have you done a video yet for the hypothetical line of succession for British throne if male primogeniture was discarded centuries earlier than 2011. That would be pretty interesting to imagine if Henry the 8th had declared it, how things would have rolled out. Or say if some bold female monarch, say Queen Elizabeth the first, had declared female primogeniture that would so interesting too. Would love to see. Thanks!

Queen dies, which means Useful Charts needs to upload a GOT video in response!

Thank you

A minor bug: Aegon I did not have "Rhoynars" in his title, as he did not manage to conquer Dorne. The official title of the iron throne from Aegon I on had long been "King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of Six Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm", until Daeron II peacefully introduced Dorne into the Seven Kingdoms.

There's this mod of a free pc game Crusader Kings 2 called a game of throne, almost all the family trees are there its incredibly detailed for generations, including their cause of death, their personality trait, weapons, dragons, etc, not to mention the amazing interactive map of the world of game of thrones

i was hoping you woulde make a video like this :)

Any interest I had in GOT (which was not a lot, I don't tend to go for bleak an cynical) was thoroughly killed by news of how the show ended. BUT, despite that, you make great, fascinating content and I hope the fans are having fun with this new beginning.

The family tree history I didn't know I needed but do

are you going to make another British line of succession video ?

Appreciated!

It would be neat to see you do the family tree of the characters of Dune.

Matt I was looking for this 3 weeks ago

we on to part 2 for season 1? you’re the only one who can put it good in words for understanding

An interesting family tree would be the Buendia family from One Hundred Years of Solitude. I remember sketching one on an empty page of the book many years ago on my second reading. Edit: I just found one on wikipedia but surely explained by Mat would be way better!

would you consider doing a video on the full Targaryen family tree?

I would love to see you do a family tree of the silmarillion from the beginnings of Tolkien's ideas of creation by Eru illuvitar and the valar/maiar right up to the third age or even beyond

I would LOVE to see this type of episode with the whooooole family tree from HotD to GoT - taking into it everyone from the books who are there. That would be so awesome. =D It would ofc have to be a complete spoiler, but still. It would be amazing. :D

2:38 Aemon didn't marry his sister, only Baelon did. Aemon marry Jocelyn Baratheon that makes Rhaenys cousins with the Baratheons. In the first episode of the show, in the tournament that King Viserys held to joyfully announcing that Queen Aemma has gone into labor, just before a knight from House of Baratheon fight in the arena, he rides up to the royal box to receive the favor from Princess Rhaenys and call her "Cousin". Rhaenys and her husband, Corlys Velaryon, have a good relationship with the Baratheons. Jocelyn Baratheon is actually Aemon's aunt, because Jocelyn is the daughter of Rogar Baratheon and Alyssa Velaryon who is also the mother of The Old King Jaeherys I. Alyssa Velaryon remarried to Rogar Baratheon after his husband, King Aenys I, passed away and her son, King Jaehaerys I, took the crown.

2:09 the Wars of the Roses aren't the best historical parallel for HotD, but the time period it's directly based on, The Anarchy, is so similar to how things play out that reading the actual history might constitute spoilers for the show

Just finished episode 4. Will come back here once chart is updated.

THANK YOU for the spoiler warning. I wish more channels did this.

Hey, are you going to do a video about kingdoms and empires of Asia, similar to that about Europe? I recently rewach that video and I saw you liked a comment sugesting doing such video.

Omg I was hoping you would do this! I can't understand the attempts of others at this family tree

Thank you. It would be good to see the family trees for BOTH HoD and GoT connected. For example: How is Viserys related to the GoT characters. Thank you for the Speakly plug. I will be downloading it and checking in out. Trying to learn Spanish

Awesome video. Can’t wait for more GOT content.

This is very nice 👍

Please do a timeline for the monarchs and rulers in Tolkien's legendarium.

I’m excited to see how or if Aemon the Maestor will be introduced in future seasons… if they get that far at least down the family tree

Prince aemon actually married the daughter of a baratheon

nice presentation

This is great! Need a Doctor Who chart!

6:20 i remember viserys being specifically told by the maester that they could only save the baby? Realistically it was a choice between the mother or baby, and from what I understand historically the mother would be saved, but in the context presented in the show viserys was under the impression that it was lose the mother or lose both, with no option to save the mother

Cool stuff

I was just thinking today about wanting to see a family tree because I was a bit confused, haha

So, what I've understood of your videos on Royal houses and the succession of thrones is; Unless otherwise forced by circumstance, males were preferred to take the throne If there was no sons and only a girl, the girl would inherit the throne. If a girl is the eldest legitimate child of the reigning monarch, but a younger boy is born, the boy inherits the throne.

What software did you use to make this awsome video?

You should do a video "Who Would Be King of Mexico Today?" (if they restored Monarchy) In history we had two emperors in very distinct periods of time First Mexican empire (19 May 1822 - 19 March 1823): Agustin I (House of Iturbide) Second Mexican empire (10 April 1864 - 19 June 1867): Maximilian I (House of Habsburg-Lorraine)

I needed a lot of therapy with last Sunday’s episode. In a pleasure house, your kissing your uncle and he had ED!? No pleasure in the pleasure house. Fun stuff. Thanks for the lovely explanations and the genealogy chart is very pretty 🥰

We need a updated version of this. I'm so lost.. lol

Will there be an updated version once season 1 ends

I'm certain that Viserys wasn't given the choice to save the baby or Aemma.. but rather save the baby or lose them both.

Can you update the British monarchy, and Western European Family tree charts

Hey this is a nice explanation could you update it to current

Basic things the show change to the books. Alicent was 18 when she married Viserys. She was 19 when she gave birth to Aegon II. She was the one that gather the green council and she didn’t like Rhaenrya. She was the GREEN QUEEN. She consciously declare a silent war to a 10 years old Rhaenrya before Rhaenrya was even made aware of things. Alicent actively made her children fear and be paranoid of Rhaenrya. She strongly dislike Daemon. She wasn’t alone in court she had her brothers and cousin with her. Rhaenrya: she wasn’t lonely, angry, not into marriage, cold, bitter little child she was in the show. She was the light of the court. The realm delight. She was her father’s cup bearer since age 8. She trail behind her uncle since she was 7. She was enamoured with him. Their bond was really deep, and Viserys adore her. They had a very warm relationship. She was closest to laena. She loved dancing, jewelry, hunting, sailing, flying. She became the black queen and begin to have her own council of men following her after she married lord Laenor. Harwin and her were together only 4 years until harwin died and she married daemon 6 months after Laenor died at the age of 23. Criston Cole. One year younger than daemon. Came to service to the princess when she wad 10 years old. He basically groom her and took her V card when she was 14. He begin hating Rhaenrya and became the Vice President of the Rhaenrya whore shaming club.because the president was Alicent. He allied himself with Alicent because they both wish to see Rhaenrya dead. He was the one that combine Aegon to take the crown as he told him Rhaenrya would kill him and his family if he didn’t. Otto.otto didn’t lose his job because of Rhaenrya. He lost his job because he and Alicent were annoying as F about having Aegon II become heir instead of Rhaenrya. They try to have Aegon II be Bethoted y yo his 10 years older sister Rhaenrya do Viserys could send Alicent and otto because he was married to Alicent but he did send otto away. He gets replace by Criston as hand of Aegon because of the same reason stepping over his role. He gets kills in the fall of king’s landing. Viserys: he was worse when it came to his favouritism with Rhanerya however it wasn’t because he loved aemma more than Alicent. He was close to Helaena as well. He wasn’t sick like in the show. He was ill the last two years of his life. The greens hide his death for almost a week so they could crown Aegon. Not because Alicent misheard Viserys but because They have planned that from 107 AC to 129 AC when Viserys died. Daemon. Daemon was loved in the city of kinglanding. He was name the prince of the city. Daemon was married by force at the age of 16. Consummated his marriage and was in the step stones when Rhae died. Came to the vale like two weeks after being informed lady Jeyne Arryn kick him out. He went to drifmark he duel Laena’s bethoted. He left to essos with laena were he married her and they were in pentos for one year. Then they came back to drifmark with Rhaena and Rhaena and Baela. Laena died of child bed fiber after 3 days she died in daemon’s arms. While Rhaenrya hold him. He marry Rhaenrya 6 months after the death of his wife. Aegon III was born the same year. Viserys didn’t like that they married in secret but allow it after the birth of Aegon. He basically raised the strong boys that is why he took it hard when Lucerys was killed. Mysaria wasn’t just his lady friend. She was his mistress since he was young and married to Rhae Royce. Mysaria was pregnant and lost the child in a storm. She lived in dragonstone with Daemon and Rhaenrya. And Rhaenrya was okay with him sleeping with both. He took nettles with him to the riverlands and when Rhaenrya asked for the head of the girl he let her free and went after Aemond. And so much more changes to the story basic line.

House Velaryon actually are in the books and actively supports Stannis's claim to the throne. By this time, Corlys' line is extinct and the current noble house descends from one of his cousins. D&D kinda forgot about them. And Margaery's mother was Alerie Hightower. House HIghtower rules Oldtown, that seat of maesters Samwell Tarly went to. One can say that House of the Dragon is a soft reboot as well as a prequel. Hope that you can make a full family tree of House Targaryen according to the books.