Jon Baratheon

September 12th, 2016 by Proprietor

I mentioned in a previous post how I thought Jon Snow was actually Jon Baratheon. I am starting to watch Season 5 of GoT on DVD, and the first episode where young Circe went to the witch to get her fortune told cements my theory.

Circe would not marry the prince, but marry the king. She married Robert Baratheon.

Circe would have three children. The king would have twenty. This is the key point. Circe had three children from incest with Jamie. Robert had twenty children, but not all were in King’s Landing. Robert was sleeping around before then. He was betrothed to Lyanna Stark, and my guess is she had relations with Robert before she was abducted. The abduction lead to Robert’s rebellion. No actual timetable is given.

Lyanna could very well have been pregnant with Robert’s child when she was abducted. Robert went on his rebellion, killed Rhaegar, and then planned to march on King’s Landing. Lyanna fearing that Robert’s rebellion might fail told Eddard to watch over her son, and told him who the father was. It was Robert. The reason she feared for their child’s life was if Robert failed in his rebellion, any children of his would suffer. If everyone thought it was Eddard’s son, if the rebellion failed, the mad king might be less likely to wipe out the Stark line.

The abduction, rape, and rebellion could all happen during the time Lyanna was pregnant. When she gave birth, it was assumed that it was Raegar’s son.

When Eddard became Robert’s hand, and began investigating lineages of the kings, the Targaryen line always had silver hair. Lannisters always had gold hair, and Baratheons had black hair. Even if the three children Robert and Circe had together were not born of incest, at least one would have had black hair. It is possible that Jon Snow being Targaryen would have black hair, but no one mentioned the Stark lineage. If you look at Rob, Arya, Bran, Sansa, and Rickon, they had brown or red hair. Sansa getting the red hair from her mother. Lyanna Stark is shown with black hair, and it is possible that is where Jon got the hair color, but it is more likely Robert and Lyanna are the parents.

Once Eddard knew that Jon was Robert’s child, and Robert won, it was more than likely political expedience to not tell his friend that Lyanna had his child. Robert was betrothed to Circe to keep the Lannisters in line.

The slaughter of infants in King’s Landing did not get Gendry, and he had black hair, like Jon Snow. We have yet to see Jon stand up to fire, granted not all Targaryen’s are fireproof, but if Jon was a true son of dragons, fire would not harm him.

My prediction is Jon will find out he is Robert’s son, and march to seize the throne. Circe will lose it to Daenerys Targaryen, because the witch predicted Circe would be queen, but lose that title to someone younger and prettier. In a practical move to unite Westeros against the impending winter, Daenerys will marry Jon.