Daenerys seized the island during her campaign to take the Seven Kingdoms, though at no point used the title as she was actively claiming the throne as Queen of the Andals and the First Men. She was secreted off the island mere weeks later and has no memory of it. Daenerys had before her war for Westeros only briefly been on Dragonstone, when she was born there. Generations later, after the exile and near-extinction of House Targaryen, Viserys Targaryen claimed the Iron Throne as "Viserys III" and his sister Daenerys became the claimant Princess of Dragonstone. Rhaenyra Targaryen was the one major exception, but her succession was controversial and sparked a civil war with her younger brother. Technically, the title became "Princess of Dragonstone" if the heir apparent was ever female, however this hardly ever occurred during three centuries of Targaryen rule.
Robert Baratheon did give rule of the island to his younger brother Stannis, but there has been no mention that he ever used the title, nor is there mention that the title was ever used for Robert's (alleged) first son Joffrey. After Robert's Rebellion, the new Baratheon dynasty did not apparently continue use of the title. The Targaryen dynasty maintained the title of Prince of Dragonstone for the heir apparent because the island was their home territory. He would yield the title as soon as his older brother produced an heir. If a king left behind multiple sons when he died, and the eldest had no children when he succeeded his father as king, the next oldest son would become Prince of Dragonstone, as his brother's legal heir. In practice, if the heir apparent had not yet reached the age of legal majority, a regent (usually a blood relative) would administer Dragonstone in the interim - but the under-aged heir would still nominally be Prince of Dragonstone. While kings of the Targaryen dynasty ruled from the Iron Throne in King's Landing, the heir to the throne would traditionally rule over the ancestral Targaryen lands: the volcanic island of Dragonstone, located on the far side of Blackwater Bay from King's Landing itself.ĭragonstone was usually ruled by the Crown Prince. The title was created after Aegon I Targaryen unified the Seven Kingdoms in the War of Conquest. Prince of Dragonstone is a title traditionally used by the heir apparent to the ruling monarch of the Seven Kingdoms. Dragonstone, the seat of the heir apparent of the Iron Throne.
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