51 AC

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Year 51 After the Conquest (51 AC) is a year in the Westerosi calendar, the 51st after Aegon's crowning in Oldtown that maesters and educated people use as a reference to date the years.

51 AC was marked by the second wedding of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne, that made public their union in an austere ceremony in King's Landing. To prevent the opposition to their incestuous marriage, Jaehaerys sent Seven Speakers to travel around the realm preaching to his subjects the doctrine of Exceptionalism. However, while on their first royal progress, the pregnant queen was attacked by three fundamentalist women. s after birth. Alysanne would later blame the stress she suffered during the attack for the fact that her firstborn Aegon was born small and frail, and died three days after.

Events

  • Alysanne returns to King's Landing with his household.
  • Jaehaerys sends the Seven Speakers to promote the doctrine of Exceptionalism around Westeros.
  • Second wedding of Jaehaerys and Alysanne, in King's Landing.[1]
  • Late in the year Jaehaerys and Alysanne begin his first progress, planning to visit some of their lords in the Crownlands, the Riverlands and the Vale.
  • The kings visit Stokeworth, Rosby and Duskendale
  • The queen is attacked by three septas at Maidenpool.

Births

Deaths

  • The three attakers of Maidenpool. Two of them slain by the knights of the kingsguard, and the third hanged after her confession.
  • Rosamund Ball, from a wound in the belly taken while defending Queen Alysanne of the attackers at Maidenpool.
  • Aegon Targaryen.[3]

Titles and Positions

References

  1. Fire & Blood, Birth, Death and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I.
  2. The World of Ice & Fire, Appendix: Targaryen Lineage.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Fire & Blood, Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I.