Valarr Targaryen (The Young Prince)

Eldest son of Prince Baelor Targaryen, the heir of King Daeron II, by Lady Jena Dondarrion of Blackhaven, born around 183 AC and known to the realm as the Young Prince. He looked much like his father Baelor but smaller and thinner of build, his brown hair streaked through with a silver-gold of his Targaryen blood, his tourney-armor black and his lance and trappings and helm all of the same colour, the great three-headed dragon of his house upon his crown enamelled in rich red. He was wed in his time to Kiera of Tyrosh, who lost him a clutch of stillborn sons before he died. He was named champion in the lists at the Tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC, where he was guarded from any dangerous challenger by reason of his being his grandfather's heir, beat nine undistinguished foes including Ser Abelar Hightower and Lord Gawen Swann, and bore the field in style if not glory. When the hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall called for a trial of seven and his father Prince Baelor agreed to ride for him as the seventh sword (without armor of his own packed), Valarr lent the prince his own black armor; the boy thought for a moment when he saw the dragon-helm coming that it was he himself who had been seven-and-seventh. Prince Baelor died of a wound to the head taken from his brother Prince Maekar's mace in the trial, and Valarr stood vigil that night beside his father's bier, and dismissed Ser Duncan's clumsy condolences at the foot of it. Six months later the Great Spring Sickness came upon the city; it took King Daeron, it took his Hand Lord Brynden Rivers's master of coin, and it took Valarr at his own court, his brother Matarys with him within the same fortnight. After his death his widow Kiera was wed by the king's order to his cousin Daeron the Drunken, of the next branch of the house.