Like it or not, this man is quite literally the rightful heir to the Iron throne...

After Tommen Died it would have been Cersei due to the hidden secret (of which it was), then it would be Lord Tarth, then Lady Brienne

Bastards need to be legitimized. He was legitimized by Dany, but accepting the legitimizing as legitimate would mean accepting Dany as having legitimate claim to the throne.

Queen regents don't rule in their own right. A Baratheon would have come forward as the rightful heir

the (feed and) seed is weak...

Of which there was no Baratheons sadly, which means the rightful ruler is found by the closest of that bloodline, which is Lord Selwyn Tarth

Bastards aren't lawful heirs, even when legitimised by the actual king and father.
See: every fucking blackfyre rebellion (there was like 6)

When was it established that House Baratheon was completely extinguished? Are we supposed to buy that Stannis, Shireen, Renly, Robert and his three kids were the only members of that house?

weren't most of those merely recognized bastards?
Daemon is never named Daemon Targaryan for instance

Is the tarths being the next closest heir a show thing? In the books the baratheon line next goes to the estermonts.

Stannis is dead and his claim comes from a Targaryen grandmother, whose line is extinct

Who Estermont?

Selwyn Tarth has a Targaryen grandmother, a daughter of King Maekar I, sister to Maester Aemon and King Aegon V the Unlikely. The Baratheon claim comes from Princess Rhaelle Targaryen, Aegon V’s daughter. Rhaelle’s line is extinct with Stannis and Shireen

The king legitimised all of his recognised bastards on his deathbed, after all you can't legitimise unrecognised bastards and you can't recognise bastards you don't know you have.

He's not called Daemon Targaryan for the same reason Ramsay isn't often called a Bolton. Most people do not accept bastards regardless of what a king says.
Estermont married into the baratheon's recently, Robert certainly had an Estermont uncle and cousins.

They would be the next heirs to the throne, as succession follows the Baratheon line now, as the Baratheons took the throne.

>the only man is all of Westeros with actual proof he's a Baratheon is the former hand to a Baratheon

And to think of it Davos doesn't really have any proof, why would anyone in the Stormlands even accept his rule?

This. Right of conquest.

>Estermont married into the baratheon's recently, Robert certainly had an Estermont uncle and cousins.
inheritance doesn’t go backwards like that. To inherit a claim from a king you must be descended from him. Selwyn Tarth is the great-grandson of King Maekar I. The Estermonts are not.

We're both wrong, it wouldn't do what either of us believe. The estermont connection is from Robert's mother, the targ from his grand mother. Inheritence would end up going backwards, but it would never end up going up the maternal family tree, always paternal. Following fathers and sons.

>He was legitimized by Dany
He wasn't though. If he was then he has no rights to the throne. Dany can't legitimize him if she herself is not a ruling queen and has no rights to the throne.

No body.

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>unironically knowing/caring about something like this

Have sex.

But that’s exactly how Robert’s blood claim was established, through Princess Rhaelle. The inheritance comes down to Selwyn Tarth from King Maekar I via his daughter (probably Princess Daella). It came down to Robert Baratheon from King Maekar I via his son Aegon IV’s daughter Princess Rhaelle.

The inheritance of the crown doesn’t travel down to Stannis and back up to his mother’s father and down again. The inheritance reverts to the closest dead ancestor who held the inheritance who also has living descendants

What Iron Throne? KL got nuked.

Why?

Robert's claim was his hammer, the targ link was a thin justification.