Game of Thrones 132AC: The Green Council

In 132 AC King Viserys I died, giving Ser Otto Hightower, Hand of the King, and his Green faction the opportunity to seize power in King’s Landing and usurp the throne by proclaiming Aegon king. This coup was rejected by Princess Rhaenys, who threatened the court astride her dragon Meleys then fled to Dragonstone.

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S1 E8 / 132AC Second War for the Stepstones ▲

In 132 AC Lord Corlys Verlaryon won the war against the Triarchy and Dorne in the Stepstones, but returned to King’s Landing with a near-fatal wound. As Corlys’s first-born Laenor was believed dead, Lucerys Verlaryon, son of Laenor’s ‘widow’ Rhaenyra Targaryen, was seen as Corlys’s successor. However, this arrangement was disputed by Corlys’s brother Ser Vaemond, who petitioned King Viserys I to name him as heir, denouncing Lucerys as illegitimate. When Viserys reaffirmed Lucerys’s claim, Vaemond flew into a rage and was beheaded by Daemon Targaryen for insulting Rhaenyra. in wikipedia

S1 E9 / 132AC Green Coup ▲

In 132 AC King Viserys I died after many years afflicted with illness. Acting quickly, the Hand of the King Ser Otto Hightower and his Green faction coerced the noble houses to switch their allegiance from Viserys’s daughter and heir Rhaenrys to his son—via Otto’s daughter Queen Alicent—Aegon, imprisoning or executing those that resisted. The next day an initially reluctant Aegon was crowned by Ser Criston Cole, new Lord Commander of the King’s Guard, as Aegon II in the Dragonpit, King’s Landing. see external link

S1 E9 / 132AC Escape of Rhaenys Targaryen ▲

Princess Rhaenys, first cousin of Viserys I, was placed under house arrest by the Greens over her refusal to support Aegon’s claim as king, but, on the day of Aegon’s coronation, was freed by Ser Erryk Cargyll of the Kingsguard. Riding her dragon Meleys, she broke into the great hall shortly after the crowning, causing mayhem and death. However, she decides against killing the royals, instead opting to escape to Dragonstone to inform Rhaenyra of her father’s death and the usurpation. see external link