The elder son of Aegon I, Aenys inherited his father's throne. With a reputation for being kind and bookish, he struggled with indecision, which made him ill-equipped to deal with several rebel uprisings. His era was marked by a divide between the Faith of the Seven and the Targaryen traditions, given that the Faith strongly opposed the Targaryen tradition of incestuous intermarriage.
Aenys died young, at just 35. years old. After his death, the Dowager Queen Visenya (Aegon I's surviving wife), maneuvered so that her son and Aenys's half-brother, Maegor, took the throne rather than Aenys's son Aegon.