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| rdfs:comment | - The War of Conquest, also called the Targaryen Conquest, was a major war that resulted in the unification of six of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros under the invading forces of House Targaryen. The war took place approximately 300 years before the War of the Five Kings.
- House Targaryen had been a noble family of the Valyrian Freehold before relocating to the island of Dragonstone in the Narrow Sea. The move came because Lord Aenar Targaryen believed the prophetic visions of his daughter Daenys, which suggested that a great catrastrophe was coming to Valyria. A dozen years later this prophecy was proven correct, when Valyria was destroyed in a single night of fire and ash. The Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive the Doom, although several smaller Valyrian families (such as the Celtigars and Velaryons) had accompanied the Targaryens and also survived.
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| Commanders | - Lord Orys Baratheon
- King Aegon ITargaryen
- Queen VisenyaTargaryen
- King ArgilacDurrandon †
- King Harren Hoare †
King Loren ILannister
- King Mern IXGardener †
- King Ronnel Arryn
- King Torrhen Stark
- Lord Edmyn Tully
- Lord Harlen Tyrell
- Lord Harlen Tyrell †
- Lord Loren Lannister
- Lord Quenton Qoherys
- Lord Velaryon †
- Princess Meria Martell
- Queen Regent Sharra Arryn
- Queen RhaenysTargaryen †
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| Result | - House Targaryen victory
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*Unification of the Kingdoms of Isles and Rivers, the Stormlands, the Rock, the Reach, the Mountain and Vale, and the North under a single Targaryen monarch
*Foundation of House Baratheon
*Extinction of Houses Hoare, Durrandon, and Gardener
*Liberation of the Riverlands from ironborn occupation
*Elevation of Houses Tully and Tyrell to Lords Paramount of the Riverlands and the Reach, respectively.
*Elevation of House Greyjoy to Lords of the Iron Islands.
*Dorne remains an independent principality
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| abstract | - The War of Conquest, also called the Targaryen Conquest, was a major war that resulted in the unification of six of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros under the invading forces of House Targaryen. The war took place approximately 300 years before the War of the Five Kings.
- House Targaryen had been a noble family of the Valyrian Freehold before relocating to the island of Dragonstone in the Narrow Sea. The move came because Lord Aenar Targaryen believed the prophetic visions of his daughter Daenys, which suggested that a great catrastrophe was coming to Valyria. A dozen years later this prophecy was proven correct, when Valyria was destroyed in a single night of fire and ash. The Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive the Doom, although several smaller Valyrian families (such as the Celtigars and Velaryons) had accompanied the Targaryens and also survived. The Targaryens had taken five dragons with them to Dragonstone, the most famous of whom was Balerion, the Black Dread. Two additional hatchlings, Vhagar and Meraxes, joined them but the other four dragons died in the succeeding century. This period, known as the Century of Blood, saw the Targaryens resist requests from Volantis to help them establish a new Valyrian empire in Essos. At one stage, the Targaryens even lent military aid to the forces of Braavos and Tyrosh against the armies of Volantis as they attempted to conquer the southern Free Cities. Aegon Targaryen was born 27 years before the Conquest. He began planning for an invasion of Westeros whilst still young, commissioning the carving of the Painted Table and studying the kingdoms of Westeros, their politics and their military capabilities in detail. Aegon had worked with King Argilac Durrendon of the Stormlands during the Volantene campaign and knew that Argilac was nervous about the growing power of King Harren Hoare, King of the Iron Islands and Riverlands, whose great castle at Harrenhal was approaching completion and would provide a formidable base for any military campaigns southwards into Argilac's territory. Argilac and Aegon discussed an alliance to be sealed by marriage to Argilac's daughter, Argella, but Aegon turned down the offer himself. Instead he proposed that Argella marry his half-brother Orys Baratheon. Although a bastard, Orys was a great warrior and noted statesman who stood high in Aegon's counsels. Argilac took great insult at the offer. He cut off the hands of Aegon's emissary and sent them back to him, saying these were the only hands a bastard could expect from him. Aegon, angered in turn, began his preparations for war.
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