Those rebellions led to abdications, rebellions, and a massive decline in the authority and prestige of the crown that contributed directly to the Tragedy of Summerhall and probably to the War of Ninepenny Kings as well, so I don’t think they’re positive precedents.
Why is the focus on this as some exercise of Royal perogative from Rhaegar and not the willing defiance and consent of Lyanna at that time? There are plenty of examples of children rebuking the betrothals set by their parents in the history of Westeros going back to the Targaryen royal family itself as recently as Aegon V and his sons, so it wouldn’t unprecedented.
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