The Targaryen Family Tree
Trace the bloodline that ruled with fire—from the Great Council to the civil war that set the realm ablaze.
DESCEND THE BLOODLINE
I · A DYNASTY DIVIDED
House of the Dragon follows the generations of House Targaryen nearly two centuries before the fall of Daenerys. King Viserys I names Princess Rhaenyra his heir—but after his death, supporters of Queen Alicent crown her son Aegon II. The Blacks and the Greens answer with ravens, armies, and dragons.
This House of the Dragon family tree — also written as the House of Dragon family tree, the House of Dragons family tree, or simply the HOTD family tree — maps every Targaryen who appears in the prequel series. See the House of Dragon family tree with pictures, not just names on a page, and how it connects to the wider House of Dragon and Game of Thrones family tree as a whole.
Follow the royal succession from the conciliator’s heirs to the rival branches whose war became the Dance of the Dragons.
THE BLACKS
THE GREENS
ROYAL LINE
II · FIRE MADE FLESH
The Targaryens were never alone in battle. Their dragons became banners, weapons—and the final arbiters of succession.
SYRAX
RIDER · RHAENYRA TARGARYEN
CARAXES
RIDER · DAEMON TARGARYEN
VHAGAR
RIDER · AEMOND TARGARYEN
From Dragonstone, Rhaenyra’s Black Council rallied the North, the Vale, and the Riverlands. In King’s Landing, Aegon’s Greens held the crown, the treasury, and the largest living dragon.
THE WAR, IN BRIEF
When King Viserys I died in 129 AC, the Targaryen dynasty split in two. His eldest child, Rhaenyra, had been named heir years earlier, but a faction led by Queen Alicent and Otto Hightower crowned her half-brother Aegon II instead. Rhaenyra’s supporters became “the Blacks” and Aegon’s “the Greens,” and the civil war that followed, the Dance of the Dragons, ran from 129 to 131 AC.
In Fire & Blood, the war killed most of the family’s dragonriders and ended with Rhaenyra’s son Aegon III on the Iron Throne. Rhaenyra and Daemon both died along the way; see Daemon Targaryen and Rhaenyra Targaryen for each of their stories, and the Who Won the Dance of the Dragons explainer for the full outcome. The show follows the same outline but changes many details, season by season.
SEASON 1 · 2022
Aired: August 21 – October 23, 2022 (ten episodes). Season 1 builds the rivalry. Viserys I names Rhaenyra his heir, time jumps carry the story across years, and Rhaenyra and Alicent drift from friends to rivals. When Viserys dies, Otto and Alicent hide the news and crown Aegon II at the Dragonpit, where Rhaenys breaks into the hall on her dragon and flees. Rhaenyra is then declared queen.
Outcome: Two rival monarchs, both crowned. The finale ends in open conflict as Vhagar kills Lucerys and Arrax, leaving Rhaenyra devastated and the war unavoidable.
SEASON 2 · 2024
Aired: June 16 – August 4, 2024 (eight episodes). Season 2 is the war of reprisals. Daemon hires Blood and Cheese to avenge Lucerys, and they murder Prince Jaehaerys, Helaena’s son. At Rook’s Rest, Rhaenys and Meleys die and Sunfyre falls with Aegon, who survives badly burned. Hugh and Ulf claim dragons, Daemon takes Harrenhal, and Alicent secretly offers Rhaenyra a peaceful end that Rhaenyra refuses.
Outcome: The war is formally declared and armies mobilize. Neither side controls the realm, and new dragonriders are emerging on both sides.
SEASON 3 · 2026
Aired: June 21 – August 9, 2026 (eight episodes). Known: Jacaerys is killed in the premiere, Rhaenyra takes King’s Landing and the Iron Throne, and Ormund Hightower raises Tumbleton and declares Daeron king. In the finale, “The Treasons at Tumbleton,” the fighting centers on Tumbleton and Daemon retreats at Corlys Velaryon’s urging. Daemon himself survives; see what happens to Daemon in Season 3.
Unknown: Which of the major Greens, including Aemond, Aegon II, and Daeron, survive. Season 4 was ordered in November 2025 as the final season; no premiere date has been announced as of October 2026.
CHARACTER INDEX
Start with the characters who have their own pages, then jump to the full tree.
BOOK VS. SHOW
The show keeps the war’s shape but changes people and events. Season 3, for instance, hands the dragon Sheepstealer to Rhaena instead of the book’s Nettles, a swap explained on the Daemon Targaryen page. When the book and the show disagree, we say so in the character profiles.
IV · QUESTIONS FROM THE REALM
Neither faction “won” outright. Both Rhaenyra and Aegon II died before the war fully resolved. The throne ultimately passed to Aegon III — Rhaenyra’s son — making her line the one that continued the dynasty, even though she never secured the crown while alive.
By blood, this is disputed in-universe — they’re widely believed to have been fathered by Harwin Strong rather than Rhaenyra’s husband Laenor Velaryon, though they carried House Velaryon’s name. This ambiguity is a major plot point, not an error in the family tree.
Daemon was Rhaenyra’s uncle (Viserys I’s younger brother) before becoming her husband. Targaryen intermarriage between close relatives, including uncle-niece unions, was standard practice for the family to preserve Valyrian bloodlines.
Aegon III, Rhaenyra’s son, inherits the throne — earning the grim nickname “the Dragonbane” for presiding over the near-extinction of House Targaryen’s dragons during his reign.
V · CONTINUE THE CHRONICLE