When Rhaenyra and her husband Daemon conquered King's Landing they found and imprisoned the whole family and counselors of Aegon II, but Aegon himself, convalescing by his wounds in the battle of Rook's Rest, had disappeared from the city with his personal guard and his badly wounded dragon. A few months after taking the Iron Throne Rhaenyra received the news of the death of her husband while in the capital the commoners rose in a rebellion to destroy the dragons who they believed the cause of the evils of the kingdom.