{Doran Martell}{Oberyn Martell}. "Mad King Aerys""The Sack of King's Landing""House Clegane""Two Swords""Breaker of Chains""First of His Name""Mockingbird""The Mountain and the Viper""House Martell""Robert's Rebellion""The House of Black and White""Sons of the Harpy""The Red Woman""The Last Dragons" Oberyn Nymeros Martell, nicknamed the Red Viper, is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation Game of Thrones, where he is portrayed by Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal.. More specifically, Aegon's younger son Maegor the Cruel, a brutal tyrant, also tried to bring back polygamy - the High Septon at the time wouldn't grant him an annulment, despite his wife being apparently barren, because she was the High Septon's own niece. timeline of: princess elia martell . Oberyn Martell is the second son of the prince of Dorn. Nothing's changed. [8] Circumstances surrounding Elia's death also fell to rumor as well, as conflicting reports state that Gregor Clegane split Elia in half with his greatsword after raping her, and it was said that he acted on his own accord rather than Tywin Lannister's orders. Most famously, Aegon the Conqueror, who invaded and united the Seven Kingdoms and forged the Iron Throne, was simultaneously married to both of his sisters: Visenya and Rhaenys. The Mountain burst into the royal chambers and before Elia's eyes, bashed her infant son's head against a wall, killing him instantly. Bloody Mary), the same isn't necessarily true in Westeros - even for TV-Rhaegar, getting an "annulment" in these circumstances would be such a unique dispensation from the High Septon that, while he was at it, he might have additionally had the annulment phrased in such a way that his children with Elia would officially remain legitimate. He offers Oberyn an opportunity to confront the Mountain privately on the condition that he first preside as the third judge at Tyrion's court trial for Joffrey's murder, which Oberyn agrees to do. I should have known better than to become emotionally invested in Oberyn, but I forgot what show I was watching for a moment and paid dearly for it. He was wed to Elia Martell, sister of the Red Viper Prince Oberyn, of House Martell, the most powerful family in the South. This, of course, backfired: his inaction only served to convince the Martells that he was actively responsible and must have directly ordered Gregor to kill Elia, harming relations with the Martells far more than if he had simply admitted the truth. Clearly, the change to an "annulment" introduced a number of complications. Tywin had given the order to kill Elia. You killed her children. [6], EEEEELLLLLLIIIIIAAAAA! [6], It is revealed that Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, has been plotting secretly to restore the Targaryens and revenge himself on Tywin, whom he and his brother, Oberyn, held responsible for the murders of Elia and her children. Unwanted Spouse: Season 7 states that Rhaegar annuled their marriage in secret shortly before her death, and remarried to Lyanna, effectively stripping Elia from her titles and position. [5], Ulmer, a ranger and formerly a member of the outlaw Kingswood Brotherhood, claims he once put an arrow through the hand of Ser Gerold Hightower of the Kingsguard in order to steal a kiss from a Dornish princess. Everything's different. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, he is played by Alexander Siddig. [14], I grant you, it was done too brutally. Elia Martell is the first born child of Prince Trystane and Princess-Consort Margaery. Following Aegon's birth, the maesters told Rhaegar that Elia would bear no more children. The Martells go to Casterly Rock. Thrown down, robbed of everything she had and left with nothing, Elia nevertheless finds herself in the middle of the game of thrones fighting against her memories which are now part of her, waves meant to wash her away and tides to take her under, but most importantly her own heart starting to turn blind to everything around her to be able to feel, love and live again. [6], It must have been the madness that led Aerys to refuse Lord Tywin's daughter and take his son instead, whilst marrying his own son to a feeble Dornish princess with black eyes and a flat chest. The truth of Elia Martell's death had been revealed by a raven from Oberyn. She owns nothing to Lyanna, Cersei, Rhaegar, Jon Con or anyone at all. [13] During her youth she was very close to her younger brother, Oberyn,[17] to whom she was only one year apart. Elia and her children before being killed by Ser Gregor Clegane. She was the sister of Doran, the ruling Prince of Dorne, and Oberyn. During the Sack of King's Landing, Gregor Clegane raped and killed Elia after bashing in her son's head, while his hands were still tainted with the infant's blood. Eddard ned stark is the lord of winterfell and warden of the north and briefly serves as hand of the king to robert baratheon. We’ll start with the arrival of Oberyn Martell in King’s Landing, who seeks justice for the brutal death of his sister, Elia. Many people in-universe believe that he launched the Blackfyre Rebellion against his own half-brother the king over his love of his half-sister, who the king sent away in a marriage-alliance. Aegon's grandson Jaehaerys I Targaryen later negotiated peace in the realm, ending the uprisings, but the Targaryens were allowed to keep practicing incestuous marriages. Aegon's sons then tried to bring back incestuous marriages, leading to the Faith Militant uprising. [25] Gregor murdered Elia's son, Prince Aegon, in front of her by smashing his head against a wall. The Valyrian ancestors of House Targaryen regularly practiced incest, marrying brother to sister (or as close a relative as possible), but were also known to practice polygamy - it was comparatively uncommon, but not unknown either. Waiting until it was decent, Elia's mother eventually broached the subject of marriage to Lord Tywin Lannister, first suggesting a match between Cersei and Oberyn, next a match between Elia and Jaime. In his early fifties, Doran is a cautious, pensive, and subtle man. A few key hints exist even centuries later that some Targaryens wanted to revive polygamy if they thought they were powerful enough to get away with it, the chief example of which is Daemon Blackfyre, a legitimized bastard son of Aegon IV Targaryen. Before Elia is betrothed, Oberyn, her favorite brother, mocks all her suitors. Near the end of their combat, Clegane confesses in front dozens of people that he raped and killed Elia Martell. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works In some ways the Martell house is very similar to the Stark house. Secret messages were sent, but the new Hand of the King, Lord Jon Arryn, traveled to Sunspear, where he returned the body of Prince Lewyn Martell, and spoke with Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne, ending all talks of war. BOOK SPOILERS We can trace the whole story from the hopeful beginning of their marriage to the bitter end. He smiles sweetly, strokes my hair, says he misses me. The maesters told Rhaegar afterwards that she would bear no more children. GRRM said to have drawn inspiration from Spain, Palestine and Wales to create Dorne and its history, culture, etc. List of references to Game of Thrones in other media, Telltale video game navigation sub-portal, Miguel Sapochnik - co-showrunner/director, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO Viewers Guide House Targaryen Family Tree, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Elia_Martell?oldid=455492. [12], Princess Elia was a good woman, Your Grace. Covered in the blood and gore of her children, the Mountain proceeded to brutally rape Elia, finally killing her by crushing her head. The rulers of Dorne are styled Prince or Princess because Dorne resisted direct co… Elia and her two children were murdered by Tywin Lannister's men, including Ser Gregor Clegane, during the Sack of King's Landing. Deceased Princess Elia Nymeros Martell was a Princess of Dorne and Princess Consort of the Seven Kingdoms. [13], When Samwell arrives at Winterfell, he meets with Bran, who confides in Sam that Jon Snow isn't the bastard son of his father, but the bastard son of Rhaegar and his aunt Lyanna. Best Served Cold: House Martell has been planning to unseat House Lannister for its complicity in the death of Princess Elia and her children by allying with the surviving Targaryens: first by attempting to marry Arianne to Viserys, then Quentyn to Daenerys, and finally, with Golden Company and the presumably dead Aegon VI. Oberyn believes that his mother had planned with Joanna to marry either Elia or Oberyn to one of Joanna's twins, Jaime and Cersei, since there had been an empty cabin on their ship, meant for someone of high birth. While there, Elia and Oberyn were eager to see the monster that had just been born. 280 AC[1] at King's LandingSkull crushed by Ser GregorClegane, on the orders of Tywin Lannister, during the Sack of King's Landing [30] Oberyn extracts a confession from Gregor after mortally wounding him, but the Mountain takes advantage of Oberyn letting his guard down, and kills the Red Viper. In response to the episode, Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson, owners of major book fansite Westeros.org and co-authors with George R.R. [16], George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, The Baratheon Brothers (September 11, 1999), https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?title=Elia_Martell&oldid=258518. A major fan theory circulating for some time, which Elio and Linda support, is that rather than get an "annulment" from Elia, Rhaegar may have polygamously married Lyanna as a second wife. When the baby was presented to Rhaegar's parents at court, Queen Rhaella embraced her granddaughter warmly, but King Aerys II refused to touch or hold the child and complained that she "smells Dornish". House Martell (by birth)House Targaryen (by marriage) Subsequently, they were never seen and rarely if ever mentioned at the royal court in King's Landing. Elia's daughter was killed by Amory Lorch. Oberyn mocked all Elia's suitors. The Princess Elia was a good and gracious lady, though her health was ever delicate. The giant grabs the baby from the cot, and without thinking, without so much as a blink, he dashes the babe's head against the wall, blood running Lannister red. “Words are like arrows, Arianne. Wiz: Inigo Montoya, the Dread Pirate Roberts Boomstick: And You murdered her. Elia Martell Whatever the case, because there is no precedent for how an annulment affects children of a marriage, Game of Thrones Wiki will not treat Rhaegar's two children with Elia as retroactively bastards, until directly confirmed otherwise by the TV series (anything else would be an assumption). The books have established that the Iron Throne is more powerful than the Faith in Westeros, and kings can legitimize bastards without consulting the Faith. While somewhat of a moot point because they died years ago, at the time Rhaegar wouldn't have wanted to risk angering the Dornish like that. Elia Martell had very frail health, however, and her first two pregnancies nearly killed her, and the maesters said she would not survive another. Oberyn confirms that he blames Tywin for the deaths of Elia and her children, which Tywin cryptically suggests was all the Mountain's doing. Therefore, he sent Queen Rhaella and Viserys to Dragonstone, but still kept Elia and her children in King's Landing as hostages against possible Dornish betrayal; thus, Aerys was indirectly responsible for the deaths of Elia and her children. Religion {Rhaenys Targaryen}{Aegon Targaryen} Culture Elia Martell appears in 1 issues View all George R.R. Rhaenys took after her mother in appearance, she had brown hair and she looked like a Martell.She had a small black kitten that she named Balerion, after the … She was married to the crown prince, Rhaegar Targaryen, and by him birthed Rhaenys and Aegon. [14], At the start of the next year, Rhaegar left Elia and their newborn son Aegon on Dragonstone, and took to the road with several companions. As Elio and Linda point out, changing this to an "annulment" from Elia Martell first solves nothing: now, Jon's enemies can simply argue that the annulment from Elia was unlawful - given that she obviously produced two children for Rhaegar already including a son- and thus his second marriage to Lyanna was bigamous (and unlawful once again). Only maybe slightly rearranged. A crowd has gathered for the trial by combat of Inigo Montoya, accused of the murder of Elia Martell and her children. Lewyn and Rhaegar both died at the Trident, and Aerys, due to his paranoia, believed that Lewyn must have betrayed Rhaegar during the battle. Tywin had given the order to kill Elia. Then I smashed her head... in like this!" She was AWESOME!. On the other hand, he never punished Gregor for the rape and murder, because that would be an admission of indirect guilt on his part. [20], Elia attended the tourney at Harrenhal in 281 AC, during the year of the false spring, together with her husband, Prince Rhaegar, and her father-in-law, King Aerys II Targaryen. [15], Daenerys: ... that was the tourney when he crowned Lyanna Stark as queen of love and beauty! She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit. I killed her children! Oh, and Rhaegar appointed a Septon from Dorne, Elia's home region, to do it, which is more or less the medieval equivalent of sending divorce papers by fax. [21], Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne, had been furious at his younger sister's mistreatment, and thus was slow to lend aid to House Targaryen during Robert's Rebellion. Sam then tells Bran that he transcribed the diary of the High Septon who served at the time and discovered that he had Rhaegar's marriage to Elia Martell annulled, thus allowing him to marry Lyanna in a secret ceremony in Dorne. Before Elia is betrothed, Oberyn, her favorite brother, mocks all her suitors. After the rebellion's end, Jon Arryn's first act as Hand of the King of the King was to travel to Dorne and negotiate with Prince Doran; Arryn convinced the Dornish to cease hostilities, but the fact Elia's killers were never punished caused the region to adopt a largely isolationist policy with the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. Many years later, while conversing with Tyrion about the foul event, he admits that there was no need to kill Elia because "by herself she was nothing" (in contrast to her children - as Rhaegar's blood heirs everyone knew they had to die for the war to end); the Mountain killed Elia simply because Tywin did not explicitly tell him to spare her. Like her younger brother, Elia was very popular among the Dornish people. Children The 'Martell kids' that were killed were Targaryens and were killed by the Targaryen's enemies.. Even if Rhaegar hypothetically pressured the High Septon into granting him an annulment on some false pretext or another this would greatly anger the Martells and possibly make them rise in open revolt against the Targaryens. When Robert's Rebellion erupted, Elia was retained in King's Landing by King Aerys to ensure the loyalty of House Martell during the conflict- a measure the Martells considered unnecessary, as they would always fight for whichever side Elia was on and had no intention of breaking their oaths of loyalty to the Targaryens. He believes that, if Rhaegar had been happy with Elia, he would not have needed Lyanna. BOOK SPOILERS We can trace the whole story from the hopeful beginning of their marriage to the bitter end. HBO. Wiz: When a man has a thirst for vengeance, nothing will get in the way of him getting the justice he seeks. She was married to the crown prince, Rhaegar Targaryen, and by him birthed Rhaenys and Aegon. Polygamy, meanwhile, was never specifically outlawed, it just fell out of favor, as the Targaryens were wise enough not to antagonize the Faith again by taking multiple wives (in contrast, they already had an incestuous bloodline, and who they subsequently married wouldn't change that - but they could chose not to take more than one wife). King Aerys opened the gates to them, mistaking them for allied reinforcements. It is generally suspected that Rhaegar wanted a second marriage because he believed he needed to have three children to fulfill part of the prophecy about The Prince That Was Promised - that the "Prince" would actually be three people acting together. She was born a month premature, and her older brother Doran did not expect her to live, when he learned about her birth; she survived, however, though her health was always fragile thereafter. Instead they began the Sack of King's Landing in the name of King Robert. Spouse She was the daughter of the ruling Princess of Dorne, the younger sister of Prince Doran Martell, who eventually inherited Dorne from their mother and became the ruler of Dorne, and the older sister of Prince Oberyn. It's difficult to speculate who the true father might be. Elio and Linda did note that they have no idea how Rhaegar getting an annulment instead of a polygamous marriage would impact Elia's children, whether it would make them bastards or not, because there is no precedent for it - no one ever gets an "annulment" for a marriage that already produced children. This is simply false. Rhaegar won the tournament, and was to crown the queen of love and beauty. She had been half in love with him, until he farted in the presence of both her and Oberyn, leading to Oberyn naming him "Baelor Breakwind". Lewyn took control of the ten thousand Dornishmen who had eventually been sent to aid the Targaryens, and accompanied Elia's husband, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, to fight in the Battle of the Trident. [6], Elia's mother had known Lady Joanna Lannister from the time they both served as ladies in waiting to Queen Rhaella Targaryen. Rhaenys was killed after she was found hiding under Rhaegar's bed. [27], According to Tywin, he thought the deaths of Elia's children had been necessary to prove the loyalty of House Lannister to the rebel cause after his previous neutrality, so he directly ordered them killed. [6] When speaking to Tyrion, Oberyn expresses apparent anger that "beautiful, noble Rhaegar Targaryen left her for another woman" despite Elia's love and loyalty for Rhaegar. Barristan: It is not for such as me to say what might have been in your brother’s heart, Your Grace. On two occasions, Daenerys asks Ser Barristan Selmy about Elia. His confession moments before his "death" erased all doubts. Elia was frail and sickly from the beginning, and childbirth only left her weaker. Others counter that Daemon was already married so this doesn't make sense, and his wife had produced seven sons and a number of daughters for him. Elia was raped and murdered by Ser Gregor Clegane in the Sack of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion. My dearest Brother, The truth as been revealed. Amongst the places they visited were Starfall, the Arbor, Oldtown, the Shield Islands, Crakehall, and finally Casterly Rock. You killed her children!" Oberyn Martell: Have they told you who I am? He's also the elder brother of Elia and Oberyn Martell. The tidiest explanation is that Elia Martell was unfaithful to Rhaegar, and that her two children are in fact not Targaryens at all, at least not Rhaegar's. Why he abandoned her for Lyanna Stark of Winterfell and warden of the murder of Martell! 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