Alicent Hightower

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Queen
Monarch
Full name Alicant of House Hightower
Family
Spouse Viserys I
Father Ser Otto Hightower

Alicant Hightower was queen and second wife to King Viserys I. She married King Viserys in 106 AL. She was the daughter of Ser Otto Hightower Hand of the King to Viserys I.

History

In 111 AL, a great tourney was held at King’s Landing on the fifth anniversary of the king’s marriage to Queen Alicent. At the opening feast, the queen wore a green gown, whilst the Princess Rhaenyra dressed dramatically in Targaryen red and black. Note was taken, and thereafter it became the custom to refer to “greens” and “blacks” when talking of the queen’s party and the party of the princess, respectively. In the tourney itself, the blacks had much the better of it when Ser Criston Cole, wearing Princess Rhaenyra’s favor, unhorsed all of the queen’s champions, including two of her cousins and her youngest brother, Ser Gwayne Hightower. [1]

She, her father, and Criston Cole arranged for her son, Aegon II, to get the Iron Throne in place of his half-sister, Rhaenyra, leading to the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.

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