The Blackfyre pretenders were not done, though the risings that followed never matched the fury of the Redgrass Field. In 219 AC, Haegon Blackfyre and the tireless Bittersteel led an invasion out of the east in what the chroniclers reckon the Third Blackfyre Rebellion. The rising was put down, and Haegon slain treacherously after he had already yielded his sword, while Bittersteel was taken captive; yet the old exile escaped once more and made his way back to the Golden Company to scheme another day.
The Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion came in 236 AC, when Daemon III Blackfyre crossed the narrow sea and invaded the realm during the reign of King Aegon V. Like the risings before it, it amounted chiefly to hard fighting along the Dornish Marches, and it ended with the pretender's death and the scattering of his followers. With each defeat the black dragon's cause grew weaker and its friends fewer, until only one last pretender remained to carry the sword Blackfyre back into Westeros.