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"And tell him I've been with no one else. I swear it, m'lord, by the old gods and new. I don't want no jewels or nothing...just him. The King was always good to me."
―Mhaegen to Ned Stark about Robert Baratheon[src]

Mhaegen is a prostitute and the mother of the royal bastard Barra.

Biography

Background

Mhaegen is a prostitute working and living at Littlefinger's brothel in King's Landing. She is known to King Robert Baratheon and is a former favorite of his. They have an illegitimate daughter named Barra.[1]

Game of Thrones: Season 1

Eddard visits Mhaegen, following the investigation of his predecessor Jon Arryn. She shows him Barra and they discuss her relationship with Robert.[1]

Game of Thrones: Season 2

Barra

Mhaegan presents Barra to Ned.

Gold Cloaks, led by Janos Slyntbreak into the brothel, along with a man who identifies Mhaegen as the mother of one of Robert's bastards. She resists when the Gold Cloaks take Barra from her arms. Slynt kills Barra personally after one of his men cannot go through with it. Mhaegen screams and weeps as the Gold Cloaks restrain her.[2]

Littlefinger notices that Ros is sobbing. She reminds him that Mhaegan works for him (he does not even remember who she is), and that the Gold Cloaks killed her baby. Littlefinger reacts very indifferently and insensitively.[3]

In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Mhaegen appears but is not named. She has a a light red hair and freckles on her nose and bosom. Ned estimates she cannot be more than fifteen years old.

The brothel where Mhaegen works is not owned by Littlefinger but by Chataya, a tall and elegant black-skinned woman from the Summer Isles.

She is killed by Allar Deem, a Gold Cloak sent by Lord Slynt, when she tries to protect her baby daughter. In the TV series, she might have survived the encounter, since afterwards Ros speaks about her in present tense.

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