Joffrey Lannister Fully Revealed [SPOILER]’s Death on ‘House of the Dragon’ (2024)

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Joffrey Lannister Fully Revealed [SPOILER]’s Death on ‘House of the Dragon’? ›

During the tour, Joffrey gleefully describes the horrific death of Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy). Joffrey explains that the queen was killed by her half-brother Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney). More specifically, she was eaten by his dragon while her young son watched. He even notes that her remains are in the building.

Did Joffrey Baratheon, one of the most detestable characters on Game of Thrones, spoil House of the Dragons years before the prequel even aired? It sure seems like something he would do — and it sure looks like he certainly did. Warning: Spoilers follow.

One scene in particular sees Joffrey accompany Margaery Tyrell to Rhaenyra's gravesite. “Rhaenyra Targaryen was murdered by her brother – or rather, his dragon,” Joffrey says. “It ate her while her son watched. What's left of her is buried in the crypts down there.”

As the Dragonpit was being stormed by the Shephard, Joffrey runs to fly Rhaenyra's dragon, Syrax (without a saddle.) Syrax flings him off from a great height, unfamiliar with him as a rider. Joffrey dies from the impact, breaking everything in his body. Afterward, the small folk dismembers him to take his possessions.

At the conclusion of the dinner, however, Joffrey dies from poisoned wine. Tyrion is falsely accused and arrested by Cersei, but it is later revealed that Lady Olenna Tyrell and Lord Petyr Baelish were the true perpetrators.

Joffrey is the youngest son of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Laenor Velaryon.

Throughout his reign on the Iron Throne, Joffrey quickly proved to be a sad*stic tyrant who loves to torture and kill innocent people, so much so that he has been compared to the Mad King himself on more than one occasion, often being called "Aerys III." Although he was the King on the Iron Throne, Joffrey ruled by ...

According to Fire & Blood (the source material for House of the Dragon), Daemon dies after an epic dragon fight with Prince Aemond… who also dies, womp. TL;DR: Daemon's spending his time trying to find/kill Aemond, and they eventually have a confrontation.

Her half-brother Aegon II is the biggest threat to her reign, eventually usurping the Iron Throne and leading to a civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. Rhaenyra's tragic fate includes being betrayed, fleeing King's Landing, and ultimately being killed by Aegon II's dragon in front of her own son.

Rhaenyra's three eldest sons all died fighting during the Dance of the Dragons, but her two youngest sons, the sons by her second husband, Prince Daemon, survived the civil war.

Was Joffrey attracted to Margaery? ›

Margaery states she has heard of Joffrey's courage and come to love him from afar. Joffrey states that he has heard of Margaery's beauty and reciprocates her feelings but balks at setting aside his betrothal to Sansa Stark.

Moments later, wildfire set beneath the Sept by Qyburn on Cersei's orders is ignited, causing the entire Sept and its surroundings to be engulfed in flames. Margaery is killed instantly, along with hundreds of others who were present.

Tyrion is wounded by Ser Mandon. He is trapped outside the walls by a group of reinforcements and then betrayed by Ser Mandon. Mandon slashes Tyrion across the face but Podrick kills him with a spear before he can finish Tyrion off.

If you wanted to borrow the book and get spoiled on what's going to happen on House of the Dragon, that's pretty easy because the years we see portrayed on the show are only a few chapters in Fire & Blood. The events of the series premiere are summarized in a paragraph, basically.

In reality, it was Olenna who had poisoned the wine. She had arranged with Littlefinger to end Joffrey's life and used Sansa Stark in the process. Littlefinger had worked with Dontos Hollard to deliver the poison, which was hidden in a stone attached to a necklace given to Tyrion's wife by Olenna.

While book-Joffrey isn't as monstrous as TV-Joff, he definitely still has the hobby of tormenting poor Sansa, harming her both psychologically as well as physically as often as possible and demonstrating what a terrible person he is.

Joffrey is believed to be the oldest son and heir of King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei Lannister, both of whom entered into a marriage of political alliance after Robert took the throne by force from the "Mad King," Aerys II Targaryen.