Queen Rhaenyra's Tax Policy (Dance Of The Dragons) Game Of Thrones History & Lore
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Things were going well for Rhaenrya, she had take Kings Landing and claimed the Iron Throne. Aegon was still wounded and missing and she had captured most of the green council. But she did have on huge issue. A lack of Money. With the greens hiding the wealth of house targaryen across the seven kingdoms. There was only one thing to do. Tax
The Dance Of The Dragons will be the focus of the plot of the new HBO spin-off House Of The Dragon coming in 2022. So if you want to learn the story before we see HBO's take on it then this will be a very long-running series. Game Of Thrones / House of the dragon are HBO shows based on Geroge R R Martins A Song Of Ice And Fire series. The information in this video comes from the books a world of ice and fire as well as fire and blood.
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This right here is when Rhaenyra lost the war.
Couldn't be helped with the Green sabotage of dividing the treasury.
Yep 👍
But she had little choice given the situation the greens left her in
@@ktbecstasyShe could have perhaps asked for a loan from her wealthier allies or from the iron bank perhaps .It was her inability to solve the problem at-hand which had lost her the war and they were in the midst of a war .Of course they would do what they can to screw over the opposing side such as splitting the royal treasury .Perhaps it would have been better if she didn't threw lavish parties when the masses were literally starving due to over-taxation and didn't have a inept master of coin like celtigar guy
😂😅 there again blame the green when city is entirely yours @@evannesbitt7852
Rhaenyra should have learned from Aragorn, you can only be a good and wise ruler if you don't have tax policies
We don't need to hear it, how Aragorn rule is well represented by how he leads his men to battle, Character already flesh out
Yeah taxing the merchants and traders after forcing a blockade is a sure fire way to get overthrown by the people.. A grade move bythe greens in the long term.
Wealthy merchants probably don't constitute a sizeable enough percentage of the population to storm the Dragonpit.
@@evannesbitt7852 Nope, but they can influence a sizable portion of the population to storm the DragonPit.
To be honest, The Riots of King's Landing reminds me a lot of The Nika Riots in Constantinople.
Where some rich politicians were influencing the populace to overthrow the current Emperor.
The riots also originally stemmed from some Chariot matches, its a whole crazy thing, you should actually look into its really interesting.
Maegor’s teets is hilarious
No wonder her nickname is Rhanerya The Cruel. 😊
Argentina policy in 2024, i can confirm
In the books they say whose idea was it to take the gold? It was a very clever move. Smells like Larys Strong or Lannister
While safekeeping them in the vaults of the Green houses, keeping them from KL to Braavos is hard or shady considering the entire ordeal that is the blockade and the Triarchy (and it's demise)
Was there anyway for Rhaenyra to obtain coin without taxing the peasants so much and not gaining the peasants hate.
maybe if they had enough time, but Aegon and Tyland really did a good job moving the gold, plus the iron bank would not have been a possibly for her so i guess it really was her last resort
IOU, fight for me and I will give you the traitor land.
Debasement was one way
Seizure of the lands and estates of the traitors
This seems like an echo of the Nika riots in 532 BCE. During the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian the first.
There were rowdy chariot races going on that turned into huge riots against the increasingly unpopular Emperor.
The riots got so bad that much of Constantinople was damaged and Justinian considered leaving, until his wife convinced him to stay when they were on the docks about to depart on a ship.
It would not surprise me at all if that was George R R Martin's inspiration, the story is full of simlar real world parallels
Oh....well someone else made the connection 5 months before I did.
Ty good videos
Glad you like them
If you are crazy or lazy the throne will cut you.
"But love & hate are two faces of the same 🪙" never truer a word for the dance of dragons 🐉
Me a tax assistant.
“Ooh interesting.”
Fire and Blood is surprisingly in-depth when it comes to tax and the impact of the economy in general
Probably because George mentions wanting to know what Aragorn's tax plan was and how he would rule in every day things
This is economic suicide
They stole all her money she had no choice. It was a good way to trap her.
@@whisky_icarus8731 yes but after a bloody war most people don’t want taxes. She could have tried to get a loan from the iron bank.
@@whisky_icarus8731 She could have been far more strategic on her taxes and spending. Like less lavish feasts for her sons.
@@whisky_icarus8731 Lol I love how y'all just go to "hurrr she had no choice." Nah man, borrow from the Iron Bank, call in debts from allies, hell borrow from those allies. Then she wouldn't have needed to tax as hard, plus as the other person said she could have done faaar better on her own unnecessary spendings.
@@whisky_icarus8731 I guess starving people to death just so you can sit in a chair is good as long as a girl boss is doing it let’s see you keep that same energy with real world people like Kim Jong Un
I like that we get to see which story tellers know what they're talking about because of the show, so we know which maesters words can be trusted for other events.
Only mushroom dosnt lie
The book and show are separate canons. GRRM stated that himself.
It’s quite hypocritical in a sense that the Lords who supported a woman’s right to write to the throne didn’t support women in general potentially inheriting the lands and titles which is interesting and I think it’s quite a bit of a hilarious hypocritical irony
*Inherit the throne
it all comes down to what suites them politically at the time. Backing Rhaenyra helped them in some way, while backing women in a wider sense was not in there best interests.
@@WorldOfWesteros good point and I have a question where do you think this entire situation of women’s rights to the throne really began?
Faith of the seven maybe or maybe the chances of dying in childbirth leaving a young child in charge and all the troubles that bring
So men became a better choice even though they could die young as well
I would think with Rhaena. She was the first born child of a king, but her younger brother was made king. There were those who commented Rhaena was first born, but Aegon the uncrowned was always acknowledged as Aenys heir. Marrying Aegon and Rhaena solved the issue until Argon is killed by Maegor then Jaehaerys is named king by Rogar Baratheon. There was a argument then the Rhanea's daughter by Aegon should be Queen, but it was again clear most of the realm was backing Jaehaerys and there was a legitimate argument that Aegon was never crowned, but it was very reaching. All we can know for sure is Rhanea definitely felt her or her daughter should have been queen. But its not until we get to Rhaenys vs Viserys for the crown we had what i would call a real solid case where Rhaenys definitely had a legitimate case. In the heir is who the king wants the heir to be, or who at the time of the kings death has the most political backing, hence why we get a situation like the dance of dragons.
Corlys could of knighted balea or rhaena as queens
She had no choice really. The Hightowers looted the majority of the gold from Kings landing.
She should have chosen a better Master of Coin. And been more strategic on taxes.
She could've not thrown lavish parties while the people starved.
Lol there were so many options like they stated. Also she could have called in debts, borrowed from allies, hell borrow from the damn Iron Bank. Anything would have been better. Literally ANYTHING.
Wars are expensive endeavours, as they say.
What should Rhaenyra have done to address this
Borrow loans from her leal lords ,Iron banks is one.
Not throw lavish feats.
Maybe she could also have seized some of fallen green's land
She should have given the lordships.
If she needed money she could of debased the gold n silver.
Curious how HotD will handle this. Perhaps an honest master of coin with agents who run wild, or whispers from the Clubfoot, or price gougers at inns and brothels
Rhaenyra and her council are more than capable of being incompetent without any help.
Although I fear the writers are either going to skip this plotline entirely (unlikely) or heavly change it like you said, to try to show her in a more sympathetic light as they have done for two whole seasons.
@@luizandrade6900 They will make it like its not her fault but the 'mEn' around her...
@@Mutazili I sadly believe you guys are right, they'll make Rhaenyra look good and will actually see that "it was really such and such's fault" which is really annoying.
It makes her so less interesting, Rhaenyra in the books is far better because she has actual moral ambiguity, and I say that as a Black Council supporter.
Pretty sure they are going to skip Rhaenyra getting stout in the show because of childbirth. It’s unnecessary and doesn’t add to the plot.
Unfortunately,
No way would HBO want someone “stout” as the star of their show.
And of course, none of the fans would want that either.
@@slis3578 Which is sad tbh. It kinda adds to the hatred between them
House of the Dragon will be a disaster...I have this feeling..
I do have to admit, the more casting i've seen the more worried i've become, i won't judge till i've seen it, but i do worry there not going to stick to the source material which is where game of thrones fell flat. Ultimately the casting has been very underwhelming.
Yeah my expectations aren’t super high for that show
@@WorldOfWesteros I saw they'd cast Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon which is strange considering the Velaryons are related to Targaryens and even share similar traits to them. Maybe the shows diverging from the source material. It wouldn't be the first time.
Have a feeling this comment won't age well
@@22s22a honestly ...? We shall see