Who else knows Jon is a Targaryen?

There’s only one man in all of Westeros who can actually confirm anything related to Jon’s parentage: Howland Reed, Lord of Greywater Watch. Reed was there when Ned Stark discovered his sister, Lyanna, giving birth to Jon Snow.

Is Jon Snow legitimized?

A Storm of Swords strongly suggests that Jon Snow was the man Robb named as Heir to Winterfell, and that Robb’s letter also legitimized him as Jon Stark, trueborn son of Ned Stark.

Is Jon Snow the true son of Rhaegar Targaryen?

Game of Thrones has been teasing the reveal that Jon is not Ned Stark’s illegitimate son but rather the trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark since the very first season. In season 6, viewers had their suspicions confirmed, and in season 7, Sam and Three-Eyed Bran put the pieces together for themselves.

Why does Ned Stark call Jon Snow “son”?

But Jon is his nephew, and he only calls him son to keep him alive in order to protect both Catelyn and Jon from a dangerous truth. In a way, that’s far more benevolent than endangering them with knowledge they don’t need to possess. “Some secrets are safer kept hidden,” Ned muses in A Game of Thrones.

Should Jon Snow have been king but not Jon Arryn?

“You or Jon,” he says, speaking of the Warden of the North and the man they both served as wards in The Eyrie. Unbeknownst to Robert at the time, Jon should have been King — but not Jon Arryn. As we all know at this point, Ned Stark’s bastard, Jon Snow, is in fact the person with the strongest claim to the Iron Throne in all of Westeros.

What is Jon Snow’s Secret in Game of Thrones?

In Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4, Daenerys asks Jon to keep the truth about his parents a secret, but Jon is terrible at keeping secrets, and before long, the truth that Jon is actually Aegon Targaryen, heir to the Iron Throne, is spreading like wildfire. So which characters know about Jon’s secret?