After King Harren the Black and his sons were killed in the War of Conquest, Aegon the Conqueror had the ironborn select a new House to rule the Iron Islands (under the overall rule of the Targaryens), according to their custom. The ironborn chose Vickon Greyjoy as Lord of the Iron Islands, and House Greyjoy continued to rule over the ironborn by hereditary right for the next three centuries. Vickon Greyjoy's election, however, was not called a "kingsmoot". There has not been a formal Kingsmoot in thousands of years.
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| - After King Harren the Black and his sons were killed in the War of Conquest, Aegon the Conqueror had the ironborn select a new House to rule the Iron Islands (under the overall rule of the Targaryens), according to their custom. The ironborn chose Vickon Greyjoy as Lord of the Iron Islands, and House Greyjoy continued to rule over the ironborn by hereditary right for the next three centuries. Vickon Greyjoy's election, however, was not called a "kingsmoot". There has not been a formal Kingsmoot in thousands of years.
- It is traditionally held on the island of Old Wyk at the top of a hill crowned by the oversized bones of a legendary sea creature called Nagga who according to legend was slain many, many hundreds of years ago by the Grey King, an old King of the Iron Islands, and its bones form the open-air hall where Kingsmoots are held.
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- thumb|110px|Yara Greyjoy
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| - Kingsmoot upon the death of Balon Greyjoy
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| - Euron Greyjoy is crowned King of the Iron Islands
- Yara and Theon Greyjoy flee the Iron Islands
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| - After King Harren the Black and his sons were killed in the War of Conquest, Aegon the Conqueror had the ironborn select a new House to rule the Iron Islands (under the overall rule of the Targaryens), according to their custom. The ironborn chose Vickon Greyjoy as Lord of the Iron Islands, and House Greyjoy continued to rule over the ironborn by hereditary right for the next three centuries. Vickon Greyjoy's election, however, was not called a "kingsmoot". There has not been a formal Kingsmoot in thousands of years.
- It is traditionally held on the island of Old Wyk at the top of a hill crowned by the oversized bones of a legendary sea creature called Nagga who according to legend was slain many, many hundreds of years ago by the Grey King, an old King of the Iron Islands, and its bones form the open-air hall where Kingsmoots are held. A Kingsmoot is called at the end of the War of the Five Kings to decide who should rule the Iron Islands following the death of Balon Greyjoy. After Balon's death, his exiled brother Euron Crow's Eye returned the very next day and tried to take the throne for himself, being next in succession in the Greyjoy line. However one of Balon's other brothers, Aeron Greyjoy (a highly respected priest in the Ironborn's religion of the Drowned God), refused to accept him as ruler for various reasons. He used his position of religious authority to invoked the ancient tradition of the Kingsmoot (the first for hundreds of years) as a means to prevent Euron from taking the crown and to have the Ironborn choose a worthy ruler for themselves. During this Kingsmoot the crowd in attendence had to choose between Victarion Greyjoy, Asha Greyjoy and Euron Greyjoy amongst a few others who put themselves forward. Each candidate put forward their cases and showed the spoils of their reaving, but it is Euron that emerges victorious with his promise of conquering the whole of Westoros using dragons and showing the extravagant spoils of his recent journey through the remains of Valyria - a journey well-known to be frought with danger and peril.
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