Tommen I Baratheon

King Tommen I Baratheon was the twentieth ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the third monarch of the Baratheon Dynasty, his lineage albeit disputed. He was legally the third child and younger son of Robert I Baratheon and his wife, Queen Cersei Lannister, and the younger brother of Joffrey I and Myrcella Baratheon, although in reality he and his siblings were bastards born of an incestuous affair between Cersei and her brother, Jaime. He reigned from 301 AC until his suicide in 303 AC, and was succeeded by his mother, Queen Cersei I Lannister. He was formally styled as Tommen of the House Baratheon, the First of His Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm.

Born in King's Landing, Tommen was a kind, compassionate and innocent child, in stark contrast to his cruel older brother. Following Joffrey's assassination, Tommen inherited both the Iron Throne and a betrothal to Margaery Tyrell, as his brother had failed to consummate the marriage, and went on to marry Margaery a year into his reign. With the death of his grandfather, Tywin Lannister, Tommen's reign saw the rise of the Faith Militant under the High Sparrow, who enabled by Tommen's relatively weak rule, went on to imprison Cersei and Margaery for religious crimes. Tommen secured the release of his family members by agreeing to have Cersei and Margaery's brother, Loras Tyrell, tried before the Seven in the Great Sept of Baelor. Cersei absconded her trial and had the Sept destroyed in a wildfire explosion, killing, among many others, Margaery and Loras. Tommen, unable to live with himself following the death of his wife, committed suicide by throwing himself from the Red Keep in the immediate aftermath of the explosion.