Robert became one of the figureheads in the war that followed, and towards its end proclaimed his intent to claim the Iron Throne. The two young men were in the Vale, where Jon Arryn refused to give them up, rising in rebellion instead. King Aerys II Targaryen ordered the heads of Robert and Eddard, following the brutal executions of Eddard's older brother and father. Matters grew worse a year later, when Rhaegar apparently kidnapped Lyanna. During the tourney at Harrenhal in 281 AC, Robert felt insulted when his cousin, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, crowned Lyanna as his queen of love and beauty after winning the joust, passing over his own wife to do so. He arranged a betrothal to Eddard's sister, Lyanna Stark, having fallen in love with her beauty. Robert inherited Storm's End in 278 AC, after his parents drowned in Shipbreaker Bay. There, he grew close to his foster brother, Eddard Stark, and came to regard Arryn as his second father. As the heir to Storm's End, Robert was send to the Vale to be fostered by Lord Jon Arryn. King Robert I Baratheon is the first king of the Seven Kingdoms from the Baratheon dynasty.
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