Falena Stokeworth

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Falena Stokeworth
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Falena Stokeworth, by Magali Villeneuve as depicted in The World of Ice & Fire.

Allegiances
Culture Crownlands[1]
Born In 125 AC[2]
Spouse Lord Lucas Lothston[1]
Issue Jeyne Lothston
Books

Lady Falena Stokeworth was a noblewoman of House Stokeworth during the reign of King Aegon III Targaryen.[1]

Appearance and Character

In her youth, Falena Stokeworth was described as pretty and lively.[3]

History

Early life

After Lord Stokeworth was executed during the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Daemon Targaryen advised his wife Rhaenyra to allow Falena to succeed ahead of her younger brother, as the Blacks were fighting for a woman's claim over her male sibling. He went as far as proposing Falena be wed to Ulf White to reward his loyalty. However, Rhaenyra took Lord Corlys Velaryon's counsel that her own inheritance was a special case, as she had been named heir by her father unlike Falena, and allowed her younger brother to become Lord of Stokeworth.[4]

Falena came to court during the years after the war had ended, during which time she would sometimes play at dolls with Queen Jaehaera Targaryen. In 133 AC, during the events leading up to the ball known as the Maiden's Day Cattle Show, she took a tumble down the serpentine steps of the Red Keep and broke a leg. According to Archmaester Gyldayn, Lord Unwin Peake, the Hand of the King, may have engineered the fall to promote his own daughter as the king's second wife.[3]

Aegon the Unworthy

In 149 AC, Falena became the first mistress of Prince Aegon Targaryen, making him "a man" when the prince was fourteen. When a knight of the Kingsguard found them abed together in 151 AC, Aegon's father, Prince Viserys Targaryen, wed Falena to the master-at-arms at the Red Keep, Ser Lucas Lothston, and persuaded King Aegon III Targaryen to name Lucas as the Lord of Harrenhal in order to remove Falena from court. However, over the next two years, Aegon paid frequent visits to Harrenhal.[1]

Falena returned to court at King's Landing when King Aegon IV Targaryen named her husband as his Hand of the King. Falena brought her daughter, Lady Jeyne Lothston, with her. Jeyne became Aegon's eighth mistress, and it was rumored that Falena and her daughter Jeyne shared King Aegon IV's bed together.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV.
  2. See the Falena Stokeworth calculation.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
  4. Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant.