Princess Shireen Baratheon is a character in the HBO series Game of Thrones, appearing from Season 3 through Season 5. The only surviving child of Stannis Baratheon and Selyse Florent, she is heir presumptive to her father's claim and a member of House Baratheon of Dragonstone. As an infant she survived greyscale, which left the left side of her face permanently scarred. Intelligent and kind, she was close to her father's advisor Davos Seaworth, whom she taught to read, and she later taught the wildling Gilly her letters at Castle Black.
Shireen's story ends in one of the series' most notorious moments: during Stannis's doomed march on Winterfell, she is burned alive at the stake as a blood sacrifice to the Lord of Light by the priestess Melisandre, with the assent of her parents. This Overview summarizes source material from the Game of Thrones Wiki; see the Timeline for chronology. Content is available under CC BY-SA.
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