House Baratheon starts Game of Thrones at the top of the food chain. Robert sits on the Iron Throne, Stannis controls Dragonstone, and Renly is Master of Coin and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands. The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies. A story we agree to tell each other over and over until we forget that it's a lie.Petyr Baelish to Varys, referring to the Iron Throne The Seven Kingdoms is the name given to the former realm that controlled most of the continent of Westeros and its numerous offshore islands, ruled by the King of the Andals King Viserys II Targaryen was the tenth king of the Targaryen dynasty to sit on the Iron Throne of Westeros. He was the youngest son of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Daemon Targaryen, named after his maternal grandfather Viserys I Targaryen. After thought to be lost during the Dance of the Dragons, he returned to King's Landing and served as Hand of the King to his elder brother, Aegon III Targaryen By 5BC the age of petty kings was coming to an end, with power being centralised around seven different kingdoms. They were the Reach ruled by Mern IX Gardener, the Stormlands ruled by Argilac I Durrandon, the Rock ruled by Loren I Lannister, the Iron Islands and the Trident ruled by Harren I Hoare, the Vale of Arryn ruled by Ronnel II Arryn, the North ruled by Torrhen I Stark, and Dorne ruled Princes are included in this list if they were the Crown Prince but died before ascending the throne and their son became king in their place. 6.) King Gaemon - The Rich (87AC - 146AC). Son of King Aemond and his wife Queen Aerea of House Velaryon. Rider of Grymax. He was the first Targaryen king to be lacking the traditional High Valyrian looks. Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Game of Thrones. After eight seasons of keeping viewers on the edge of their seats, the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones came to The Kingdom of the Iron Throne is the ruling party over the Crownlands, The Westerlands, The Reach and Dorne. The Iron Throne once had dominion over the The North, the Vale, The Iron Islands and The Riverlands, but seceded control of these regions to King Robb Stark following the War of the Five Kings. Even though the kingdom was split, the King on the Iron Throne continues to hold the title The Targaryens ruled Westeros for three centuries, and within that span of time had 17 kings sit on the Iron Throne—but unfortunately, no queens (unless we count Rhaenyra Targaryen, and if you King Viserys III Targaryen was the eighteenth member of the Targaryen dynasty to claim the Iron Throne of Westeros, but his claim was not recognised within Westeros. Darkly handsome but often unpleasant-looking and pugnacious, Viserys Targaryen had long silver hair and purple eyes typical of Valyrian men and women. He was gaunt, hard and thin from being on the run almost all of his life. He Article. The Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) was the first great Persian political entity in Western and Central Asia which stretched, at its peak, from Asia Minor to the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia through Egypt. It was founded by Cyrus II (the Great, r. c. 550-530 BCE) whose vision of a vast, all-inclusive Persian Empire was, more or less PGxF3.