Why Every Targaryen Seems To Have the Same Name in House of the Dragon

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We saw it in House of the Dragon, and then it appeared again in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It's the classic conundrum in Game of Thrones lore: Why are so many Targaryen named Aegon? I mean, it's normal for families to name a child after another relative, but the Targaryens' adoration for Aegon the Conqueror takes this to a whole new level. Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) even started a civil war by mixing up her son Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) with the original Aegon when her husband says the name during an unconscious fever dream on his deathbed. Exactly how many Aegons are there, though? Because we can't have a civil war whenever a new one is born.

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