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Aegon III Targaryen

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Aegon III Targaryen, also known as Aegon the Younger, and later Aegon the Dragonbane, was the seventh King of the Targaryen line. He succeeded his uncle, Aegon II Targaryen, at the conclusion of the Dance of the Dragons, which saw the victorious supporters of his late mother Rhaenyra Targaryen install him on the throne. When he was a child his dragon was Stormcloud. Aegon kept the Kingdom united following the divisions of the civil war with the aid of his brother, Prince Viserys. After the Dance of the Dragons, Aegon became brooding, cold and subject to melancholy. He ruled from 131-157 AC. 

Since he came to the Iron Throne aged eleven, several regents and Hands ruled in Aegon's name for the first five years of his reign. Numerous political schemes, plots and assassinations happened in those five years as the regents fought one another for political power. His first wife died during this time (some say suicide, some murder).

After he came of age, Aegon dismissed the Regents and his Hand of the King and named his brother, Prince Viserys, as his Hand. Viserys would serve as Hand during the remaining years of Aegon's reign, and during the reigns of both of Aegon's sons. As King, Aegon III strove to give the realm peace and plenty, his coldness kept him from courting his Lords and people. Aegon is often blamed for the death of the last dragon, having had a great distaste for the creatures since he witnessed his mother being devoured by his uncle's dragon.

Aegon was regarded as a broken king who ruled over a broken reign. His brother as Hand did the majority of the ruling. For Aegon was melancholic to the end of his days, found pleasure in almost nothing and locked himself in his room to brood for days on end. He likewise came to dislike being touched, even by his beautiful wife and queen, though their marriage had been fruitful, it was said Aegon was long in calling to her bed.
The reign of the Broken King ended with the King's death at thirty-six years of age, from consumption, in 157 AC. Many of his subjects thought him far older, for his boyhood had been cut short, and the melancholy King is not remembered fondly.
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