House Tarly of Horn Hill is a noble house of the Reach, one of the strongest sworn to House Tyrell.
Marcher lords of the Dornish Marches,
During the reign of Aenys I Targaryen, Savage Sam Tarly was among the marcher lords who participated in the Vulture Hunt.
The son of Lord Tarly unsuccessfully courted Rhaenyra Targaryen before she wed Laenor Velaryon.
The Tarly huntsman was spotted by Ser Duncan the Tall among the heraldry on display at the tourney at Ashford Meadow. Ser Samwyle Tarly is listed as having competed at the tourney.
Randyll Tarly's father was unhorsed by Ser Denys Mallister in a tourney.
During Robert's Rebellion, Lord Randyll commanded the vanguard of the Reach at the Battle of Ashford, where he killed Lord Cafferen and forced Robert Baratheon to retreat. Randyll's liege, Lord Mace Tyrell, took credit for the victory, however.
Samwell Tarly joins the Night's Watch as a steward and befriends Jon Snow. Sam has been removed from the Tarly line of succession by Lord Randyll Tarly in favor of Dickon Tarly.
Lord Randyll is among the lords that join their forces to Renly Baratheon's beneath Bitterbridge. Renly was at Horn Hill with Lord Tarly when he received Stannis Baratheon's letter concerning the illegitimacy of Queen Cersei Lannister's children.
Randyll is among the lords who do not go over to Stannis after Renly's death at Storm's End. He captures Renly's stores at Bitterbridge and puts many men to death, mainly Florent men-at-arms, lest they go over to Stannis along with their lords.
Randyll is presented to the Iron Throne after the Battle of the Blackwater, where he had commanded the center of the Tyrell and Lannister host.
Samwell is part of the great ranging in search of Mance Rayder and Benjen Stark beyond the Wall. After the fight at the Fist, Sam slays an Other..
Lord Randyll defeats a northern army in a battle at Duskendale.
Jon orders Samwell to attend the Citadel in Oldtown to gather lore about the Others. Sam intends to send Gilly and the wildling prince to live with his mother Melessa at Horn Hill.
Ser Kevan Lannister names Lord Randyll as a good candidate to fill the vacant position as Hand of the King during his meeting with Queen Cersei Lannister.
Brienne of Tarth spots the badge of House Tarly among those that had been collected from the dead around Duskendale.
Dickon has married Eleanor Mooton.
Randyll returns to King's Landing upon receiving news of the arrest of Margaery Tyrell. He receives custody of her and her cousins after swearing a holy oath to return them for trial. As part of Lord Regent Kevan Lannister's efforts to assuage the men of the Reach, Lord Tarly is named justiciar on the small council of King Tommen I Baratheon.
The known Tarlys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Tarth of Evenfall Hall is a noble house from Evenfall Hall in the stormlands. The family rules Tarth, a beautiful island northeast of Shipbreaker Bay that controls the Straits of Tarth between the island and mainland Westeros. They are one of the main houses sworn to House Baratheon of Storm's End.
Their blazon is quartered with yellow suns on rose and white crescents and azure.
Ancestors of House Tarth were once kings, and the head of the family is known as *"the Evenstar"*, which they claim dates back to the dawn of days.
Tarth was the first region of the stormlands conquered during the Andal invasion, but peace between the Andals and First Men was eventually achieved when the Storm Kings and their bannermen intermarried with the Andals.
At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Ser Otto Hightower believed that the Evenstar of Tarth would be among the narrow sea powers who would support Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Ser Quentyn Tarth participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
Ser Endrew Tarth, stationed in the Shadow Tower, is recalled to Castle Black to train the new recruits as master-at-arms after Ser Alliser Thorne is sent away.
When Stannis Baratheon sends Davos Seaworth to rally the stormlords, the Tarths only agree to a midnight meeting in a grove.
Lord Selwyn Tarth's daughter, Brienne, wins the melee at Bitterbridge, defeating Ser Ronnet Connington and Ser Loras Tyrell. As a reward King Renly grants her a place in his Rainbow Guard. She then goes into Catelyn's service.
Following Catelyn's orders, Brienne escapes with Ser Jaime Lannister and Ser Cleos Frey from Riverrun.
Ser Endrew Tarth dies fighting the Weeper's wildlings at the Bridge of Skulls.
In King's Landing Brienne is entrusted by Jaime to look for Catelyn's daughters, and he gives her a Valyrian steel sword named Oathkeeper.
Brienne unsuccessfully searches the crownlands and riverlands for Sansa Stark. While following Arya Stark's track, Brienne is captured by the brotherhood without banners and is sentenced to death by Lady Stoneheart, the revived Catelyn Tully.
Brienne recruits Ser Jaime Lannister at Pennytree, ostensibly to help in saving Sansa Stark from Sandor Clegane.
The known Tarths during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there is also:
House Tawney of Orkmont is a noble house from the Iron Islands, one of the strongest sworn to Pyke
According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms as a scourge of nettles, red and black, on white.
Some Tawneys gather to wish Victarion Greyjoy well on Old Wyk. Little Lenwood Tawney is one of Victarion's captains and supporters during the kingsmoot. He is seen playing the fiddle in Victarion's tents.
The known Tawneys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there is also:
House Teague was a noble house from the riverlands who ruled as King of the Rivers and the Hills prior to Aegon's Conquest. They blazoned their arms with a golden trident upright on black between two golden flanches.
About a century after the fall of House Justman, the adventurer Torrence Teague, a man of uncertain birth, raided the westerlands and used the gold to hire sellswords from Essos. After six years of fighting, Lord Torrence was crowned King of the Rivers and the Hills at Maidenpool.
The river lords did not care for the Teagues, however, and the kings were forced to keep hostages from the great families at their court. Theo Teague, the fourth king from the dynasty, was known as Theo Saddle-sore because of his time on campaign against rebels.
When King Humfrey I Teague began to repress worship of the old gods with the support of the Faith Militant, Houses Blackwood, Vance, and Tully rose in rebellion. Although the Teagues and their loyalist supporters came close to defeating the rebels, Lord Roderick Blackwood sought aid from the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon, with whom he was related by marriage. Humfrey, his three sons, and his brother were all slain in what became known as the Battle of Six Kings. Since Roderick was also killed in combat, Arlan decided to add the riverlands to the realm of the Storm Kings.
House Templeton is a noble house from Ninestars in the Vale of Arryn. They are one of the great knightly houses sworn to House Arryn. The head of the House is given the title of 'Knight of Ninestars'..
Although they are a knightly house, they are very powerful, and their strength and influence are comparable to many lords. It is said they can easily raise a thousand men. through the female line.
They blazon their arms with nine stars, one of 7 points and eight of 6 points, upon a gold saltire on black. Their motto does not appear in the books.
At the Battle of the Redgrass Field, the Knight of Ninestars, part of the loyalist army commanded by Lord Donnel Arryn, was slain by Daemon Blackfyre.
When discussing King Robb Stark's succession, his mother Catelyn Tully recalls that Lord Eddard Stark's grandfather had a sister who married a younger son of Lord Raymar Royce and had three daughters. Each married Vale lords, one of whom Catelyn vaguely remembers as a Templeton.
The Templetons give support to Yohn Royce when pressuring Lady Lysa Arryn to enter to the War of the Five Kings.
Ser Symond Templeton, the Knight of Ninestars, joins the Lords Declarant in opposing Petyr Baelish.
The known Templetons during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Terrick is a noble house from the riverlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with per saltire purple and gold, four hawks' heads countercharged.
The known Terricks during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Thenn is a new noble house of the north created in 300 AC.
Their coat of arms combines a bronze disk to honor the Thenn people with red flames to honor the devotees of R'hllor. The sigil echoes the sunburst of House Karstark.
House Thenn is created from the marriage arranged by Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, between Sigorn, the Magnar of Thenn, and Lady Alys Karstark. Alys is the heir of her brother, Harrion Karstark, the rightful Lord of Karhold currently imprisoned at Maidenpool.
Should Harrion Karstark die without any offspring, House Thenn may become the new Lords of Karhold.
House Thorne is a noble house from the Crownlands.
According to semi-canon sources, they blazon their shields with a silver flail on red within a black border rayonne.
Ser Rickard Thorne was a knight of the Kingsguard during the reign of Viserys I Targaryen.
Ser Alliser Thorne was on the battlements of King's Landing when Tywin Lannister sacked the city during Robert's Rebellion. Instead of execution, he chose to join the Night's Watch.
Ser Alliser Thorne is the master-at-arms of the Night's Watch at Castle Black. Ser Endrew Tarth replaces him at Castle Black when Alliser is sent to King's Landing with the hand of a wight to drum up support for the Night's Watch and to make the Iron Throne aware of the coming threat.
Ser Alliser returns to the Wall with Lord Janos Slynt. During the choosing of a new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Alliser puts his name forth. He comes in sixth on the first day, loses votes on the second day, and withdraws his name. He throws his support behind Janos afterwards, but Jon Snow is ultimately chosen instead.
Lord Commander Snow grants command of Greyguard to Janos Slynt to keep him away from Ser Alliser. Thorne doesn't put up opposition when Jon calls for Slynt to be seized for execution.
Later on, Lord Commander Snow sends Alliser ranging beyond the Wall with Dywen. Thorne believes Jon is sending him out to die but acquiesces to avoid giving Jon an excuse to execute him, as had happened with Slynt. He does warn Jon that if the Others kill him and raise him as a wight, he'll remember and come back.
The known Thornes during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Toland of Ghost Hill is a Dornish noble house sworn to Sunspear, one of the Martells' principal bannermen..
Their arms depict a green dragon biting its tail on gold, the dragon symbolizing that time has no beginning and no end. Their words have not been mentioned.
The Tolands successfully resisted the dragons of Aegon the Conqueror during the First Dornish War.
While convincing Ser Arys Oakheart to join her conspiracy, Arianne Martell muses about the significance of the Toland arms and compares the crowning of Myrcella Baratheon to the actions of the Kingmaker, Ser Criston Cole, that led to the Dance of the Dragons.
Lady Nymella Toland is one of the Dornish lords that help Prince Doran Martell to delay Ser Balon Swann's arrival at Sunspear.
Arianne and her retinue stay at Ghost Hill on their way to Storm's End. They eat supper with Lady Toland and her daughters. Valena Toland shares reports of Rain House, Crow's Nest, Mistwood, Greenstone and Tarth have all fallen to the Golden Company. Teora Toland confesses she has been dreaming of dragons.
The known Tolands during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Tollett of the Grey Glen is a house from the Grey Glen in the Vale of Arryn. They are sworn to the Royces from Runestone.
Neither their arms or their words appear in the books, but according to semi-canon sources they blazon their shield as pily grey and black.
Eddison Tollett, known as Dolorous Edd, is paired with Jon Snow during the great ranging of the Night's Watch beyond the Wall.
Edd survives the battle of the Fist of the First Men and the mutiny at Craster's Keep, and he returns safely to the Wall. He receives two votes in one of the final castings of votes for the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
The Tolletts are among the noble houses who join Lord Yohn Royce in trying to depose Lord Petyr Baelish.
The known Tolletts during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* include:
With unspecified familiar relationship, there is also:
House Torrent of Littlesister is a noble house from Littlesister in the Vale of Arryn. Their arms and their words are unknown. They are vassals of House Sunderland.
The known Torrents during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
Two noble houses are called House Towers:
House Towers was a noble house from what is now the north. They were First Men who were vanquished by the Kings of Winter from House Stark.
House Towers of Harrenhal was a noble house from Harrenhal in the riverlands. They blazoned their arms with five black towers on white, a double tressure red and black.
After King Maegor I Targaryen wiped out House Harroway in 44 AC he decreed that the strongest of his knights would have the castle of Harrenhal, though not the lands House Harroway held separatly from Harrenhall, which he gave to others.
House Toyne was a noble house from the Stormlands. According to semi-canon sources, they blazoned their arms with a winged heart, black on gold, within a black bordure embattled.
Ser Terrence Toyne was a knight of the Kingsguard who fell in love with Aegon the Unworthy's mistress, Bethany Bracken. When the king found them abed he had Toyne dismembered piece by piece, while Bethany was forced to watch before meeting her own death. Terrence's two brothers sought vengeance, but were themselves slain by Prince Aemon the Dragonknight. These series of actions led to the downfall of House Toyne.
Simon Toyne was the leader of the Kingswood Brotherhood. Ser Barristan Selmy killed Simon while rescuing Lady Jeyne Swann and her septa. Barristan misremembered Simon Toyne being the mystery knight that attended the tourney at Storm's End.
The last known member of House Toyne was Myles Toyne, known as *"Blackheart"*. He was a captain-general of the Golden Company, a sellsword company of exiles in Essos.
Historical members of House Toyne include:
House Trant of Gallowsgrey is a noble family from the stormlands. They are one of the principal houses sworn to House Baratheon of Storm's End.
According to a semi-canon source the seat of House Trant is Gallowsgrey. Their words are "So End Our Foes".
At the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC, Steely Pate gives Ser Duncan the Tall his newly painted shield, they discussed the auspicious merit of various heraldic sigils. Pate mentions having seen shields adorned with, among other things, hanged men and reminds Duncan that they served their wielders just as well.
Duncan the Tall, having had his shield destroyed in a trial by combat at the Chequy Water against Ser Lucas the Longinch, bought a new shield during his stay at Stoney Sept. The shield had not been painted since its last owner and therefore still featured a hanged man as its sigil - most likely the personal arms of a member from House Trant. This inspired Duncan to adopt the temporary alias of the *"Gallows Knight"* for the tourney at Whitewalls in 211 AC.
Ser Meryn Trant is one of the three sworn brothers of the Kingsguard who protect King Robert I Baratheon on his journey to Winterfell to name his new Hand of the King.
Ser Meryn rides in the joust during the tourney on King Joffrey's name day. He breaks two lances with Ser Hobber Redwyne, unhorsing him on the second pass.
During the trial of Tyrion Lannister for the death of Joffrey, Ser Meryn is called as a witness for the prosecution. He recounts that Tyrion beat Joffrey after the riot of King's Landing and that Tyrion threatened the king's life.
The known Trants during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Tudbury is a noble house from the Stormlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a brown tortoise within a yellow lozenge on green. Their words are not known.
The known Tudburys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
It is likely that House Tudbury is a homage to one of the main characters of early *Wild Cards* stories: Tom Tudbury, the Great and Powerful Turtle. Wild Cards is a collection of science fiction novels and derived products edited by George R. R. Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, and Tom Tudbury is GRRM's own creation and shares many characteristics with him.
House Tully of Riverrun is one of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms. Lord Hoster Tully, the Lord Paramount of the Trident, rules over the riverlands from the Tully seat of Riverrun. Their sigil is a silver trout leaping on a striped field of blue and mud red, and their house words are "Family, Duty, Honor."
Members of House Tully tend to have fair skin, red-brown (i.e. auburn) hair, and blue eyes in a variety of shades.
Although Riverrun still has a godswood, House Tully follows the Faith of the Seven.
Tully funeral customs decree that a deceased member is placed on a small boat. Men might be clad in their armor and surcoat, with a wooden sword and shield. They are placed on their cloak, among stones to make the boat heavy in the water, and driftwood, kindling and scraps of parchement to allow it to catch fire. In honor of the Seven, seven men are chosen to push the funereal boat to the water. Using a flaming arrow, the boat is lit afire.
House Tully is an old noble house of First Men origin, dating back to the Age of Heroes. Ser Edmure Tully and his sons were allies of Tristifer IV Mudd, the King of the Rivers and the Hills, but the Tullys knelt to the Andal conqueror Armistead Vance after Tristifer's death. Edmure's son, Axel Tully, received land at the junction of the Red Fork and the Tumblestone, where he constructed Riverrun.
Unlike many Great Houses the Tullys never ruled as kings, but held Riverrun for a thousand years as powerful vassals of those who did. They often defended the Trident from the Kings of the Rock. Lord Elston Tully died supporting Lord Roderick Blackwood against King Humfrey I Teague. Lord Tommen Tully futilely supported Lady Agnes Blackwood against Harwyn Hoare, King of the Iron Islands, and Tommen's natural son Samwell Rivers was slain at the Tumblestone.
Knights of House Tully charge. Illustrated by Martina Pilcerova. © Fantasy Flight Games.
House Tully rose to prominence during Aegon's Conquest, when Lord Edmyn Tully led the rebel river lords who deserted King Harren the Black and joined Aegon the Conqueror.
King Aenys I Targaryen relied on the Tullys during the rebellion of Harren the Red, and King Maegor I Targaryen was supported by the Tullys and the Harroways against Prince Aegon Targaryen in the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye. The Tullys later supported Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen against Maegor.
In 101 AC during the Great Council, Lord Grover Tully spoke in favor of Prince Viserys Targaryen over Laenor Velaryon as the successor to Jaehaerys I.
The Tullys were Targaryen loyalists during the Blackfyre Rebellions.
Given the riverlands' geographic vulnerability, House Tully has often sought alliances in case of invasion. Lord Hoster Tully sought to wed his brother, Ser Brynden Tully, hero of the War of the Ninepenny Kings, to Bethany Redwyne, but Brynden would have none of it. During the years-long quarrel between the two, Brynden took the moniker "Blackfish".
Hoster also took a ward, Petyr Baelish, an obscure lordling from the Fingers. Petyr fell in love with Lord Tully's eldest daughter, Catelyn, but was rebuffed. As consolation he took the virginity of Lysa, Hoster's other daughter. Hoster forbade Petyr from marrying either of his daughters due to his low standing, and ordered Lysa to drink moon tea to prevent her from bearing Petyr's child.
The executions of Brandon and Rickard by King Aerys II Targaryen complicated matters, but Lord Hoster threw in with the ensuing rebellion of Lord Robert Baratheon against Targaryen rule, arranging for Catelyn to wed Brandon's brother, Lord Eddard Stark, and for Lysa to marry Lord Jon Arryn. The riverlands was a major theater in Robert's Rebellion, and Lord Hoster fought in the Battle of the Bells
House Tully Septon by Nacho Molina. © Fantasy Flight Games.
Lord Hoster Tully is an old man, afflicted with an illness which has left him a bed-ridden invalid. His responsibilities fall on his son and heir, Ser Edmure Tully.
While returning to Winterfell, Catelyn captures Tyrion at the crossroads inn
Lord Tywin Lannister sends raiders under Ser Gregor Clegane to the riverlands in retaliation and calls his banners to Lannisport. The Tullys send survivors of the raids along with a highborn delegation to beseech the Iron Throne for justice.
King Joffrey I Baratheon names Lord Hoster, Ser Edmure, and Ser Brynden Tully among the nobles who must swear fealty to him or be declared traitors, forfeiting their lands and titles.
Lysa refuses to commit the Vale's forces against the Lannisters.
Ser Brynden reconciles with his dying brother Hoster
Catelyn rides south to treat with Renly Baratheon at Bitterbridge. Renly insists upon receiving homage from Robb,
Catelyn returns to Riverrun, where Ser Edmure remained to guard Robb's rear. He takes in smallfolk from across the riverlands in an effort to guard them from Lannister raiders, but this reduces Riverrun's stores.
Tully guardsmen prevent red cloaks from rescuing Jaime Lannister from Riverrun's dungeon.
For his service allying House Tyrell with the Lannisters and House Baratheon of King's Landing, Lord Petyr Baelish is named Lord Paramount of the Trident by King Joffrey after the Battle of the Blackwater. According to the Iron Throne, Petyr replaces the rebellious Hoster as liege lord of the riverlands.
Because Catelyn tasked Brienne of Tarth with bringing Jaime to King's Landing in an effort to free her daughters, Sansa and Arya,
In his last weeks, Lord Hoster slips into delirium, and recalls with regret his order for Lysa to abort Petyr Baelish's child.
Robb, having returned to Riverrun from the west, has wed Jeyne Westerling, a lesser Lannister vassal, thereby breaking his marriage contract with House Frey. Robb and Brynden tell Edmure his victory in the Battle of the Fords unwittingly foiled Robb's strategy to trap Tywin in the west.
While at the Twins for Edmure's marriage to Roslin Frey, the Tullys and Starks are betrayed by the Freys and the Boltons in the Red Wedding. Catelyn, Robb, and many others are murdered under guest right.
In the aftermath of Joffrey's death, Sansa Stark flees King's Landing with the aid of Petyr Baelish. Lysa travels to Petyr's tower in the Fingers and marries him there.
Catelyn's corpse is recovered from the Green Fork by a wolf,
During the siege of Riverrun, Brynden the Blackfish withstands daily threats from Ser Ryman Frey that Edmure will be hanged.
Thoros of Myr reveals that the corpse of Catelyn, now called Lady Stoneheart, received the last kiss from the outlaw lord Beric Dondarrion. She has gone on a campaign of vengeance, killing anyone she finds associated with the Red Wedding.
Lord Tytos Blackwood is the last of the river lords to still fly the banners of Houses Stark and Tully. Jaime negotiates the end of the siege of Raventree, and Tytos claims he has no knowledge of Brynden's whereabouts.
The known Tullys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
She would show these northerners how strong a Tully of Riverrun could be.
- thoughts of Catelyn Tully
Let the kings of winter have their cold crypt under the earth. The Tullys drew their strength from the river, and it was to the river they returned when their lives had run their course.
- thoughts of Catelyn Tully
Those Tullys are a sour, suspicious lot ...
House Tully guards are guardsmen in the service of House Tully of Riverrun. They wear helms with fish crests.
When Robb Stark and his mother Catelyn arrive at Riverrun after the Battle of the Camps, they are greeted by Cat's brother, Ser Edmure Tully, and Lord Tytos Blackwood. One of Edmure's guards splashes into the water when Grey Wind bounds from the boat.
Ser Robin Ryger, captain of the Tully guard, announces the prisoner Ser Cleos Frey in Riverrun's Great Hall. Robb, the new King in the North, sends Cleos to King's Landing as an envoy.
When Cleos returns to Riverrun with the Iron Throne's counteroffer, his escort of red cloaks includes four men—a mummer, a murderer, a poisoner, and a thief—tasked by Tyrion Lannister to rescue his brother, Ser Jaime, from Tully captivity when Edmure is away.
While the Battle of the Fords is being fought, Riverrun is left with a garrison of green boys.
Catelyn frees Jaime from the dungeon and sends him with Cleos to King's Landing to be exchanged for her daughters, Sansa and Arya. Ser Desmond Grell, the castellan while Edmure is in the field, sends Robin to recapture Jaime.
The guards Delp and Elwood are killed by Lord Rickard Karstark's men when Rickard has the captives Tion Frey and Willem Lannister murdered.
Robb names Ser Brynden Tully the castellan of Riverrun
During the siege of Riverrun by forces sworn to King Tommen I Baratheon, Jaime explains that the garrison will be allowed to take the black if Edmure yields the castle.
House Turnberry is a noble house from the westerlands. They blazon their arms with nine strawberries on a white saltire, on green and red vairy in point.
Ser Lambert Turnberry is present at the funeral of Lord Tywin Lannister. He promises to take the head of Queen Cersei Lannister's brother, Tyrion.
Lambert is among the group of household knights who spend time in the presence of Queen Margaery Tyrell.
Lambert is kept in the dungeons of the Red Keep in the care of Qyburn.
The known Turnberrys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Tyrell of Highgarden is one of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, being Lords Paramount of the Mander and the liege lords of the Reach. A large, wealthy house, its wealth is only surpassed among the Great Houses by House Lannister, and the Tyrells can field the greatest armies. Additionally, if they call the ships of the Redwyne fleet, the lords of the Shield Islands, and the coastal lords, they can command a navy that equals if not surpasses the royal fleet of King's Landing.
Highgarden is an ancient seat of rule and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms;
Unlike most other Great Houses, the Tyrells never ruled as kings. Instead, they trace their line of descent through the female line to the legendary Garth the Gardener, the mythical first King of the Reach reigning in the Age of Heroes, and the son of the equally mythic Garth Greenhand.
The Tyrells served as stewards to House Gardener.
During the minority of King Garland VI Gardener, a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as Regent.
When Lords Manderly and Peake instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King Garth X Gardener, succeed as Queen of the Reach, Ser Osmund Tyrell, the High Steward of Highgarden, led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden which had been sacked by a Dornish king and his raiders. Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X, who has been killed by the raiders, upon the new throne as King Mern VI Gardener.
Relying on the able counsel of Ser Osmund, and later Osmund's son Ser Robert Tyrell, and finally Robert's son Lorent Tyrell, King Mern ruled well, rebuilding Highgarden and doing much and more to restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener.
Highgarden Honor Guard by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
Following the defeat and death of King Mern IX Gardener and his other kin at the Field of Fire during Aegon's Conquest, Harlen Tyrell, hereditary high steward of the Reach, surrendered Highgarden to Aegon the Conqueror. As a reward, Harlen was granted the castle along with dominion of the Reach as Lord Paramount of the Mander. As Wardens of the South they frequently warred with the Dornishmen, who remained independent. Harlen disappeared in the Dornish sands during the First Dornish War.
During the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, the Tyrells hosted the famed Tourney of the Field of Roses.
As the Dance of the Dragons began, Lord Lyonel Tyrell was an infant, and his regent mother was judged likely to align the Reach with the House's "overmighty" bannermen, the Hightowers, and the greens.
When Daeron I Targaryen, the Young Dragon, attempted the conquest of Dorne, Lord Lyonel commanded the army that invaded via Prince's Pass. After the initial victory, Daeron appointed Lord Tyrell as governor of Dorne. Lord Tyrell liked Dornish women and one night he pulled the rope that would signal for a wench to come to his bed, and a hundred scorpions fell from the canopy instead. His death sparked new revolts, and the conquest was undone in a fortnight.
Lord Leo "Longthorn" Tyrell participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow, beginning the tourney as one of the champions. Both Prince Aegon Targaryen and Ser Duncan recognized him as a formidable opponent, one that Duncan would better avoid.
During Robert's Rebellion, House Tyrell stayed loyal to King Aerys II Targaryen. Lord Mace Tyrell's forces achieved victory against Lord Robert Baratheon at the Battle of Ashford. Mace likes to take credit for the success, accepted the Tyrells back into the king's peace.
Highgarden by Zippo514 ©
House Tyrell is among the houses that Viserys Targaryen believes will rise for him if he lands in Westeros.
Ser Loras Tyrell resides at King's Landing with his own retinue.
When King Robert I Baratheon lays dying, Loras flees King's Landing with Lord Renly Baratheon after Eddard rebuffs Renly's request for his aid in taking Robert's children into custody.
Strength of Highgarden by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games
Ser Loras Tyrell is named the Lord Commander of Renly Baratheon's own bodyguards, the Rainbow Guard, while Lord Mace Tyrell is named Renly's Hand of the King..
Mace Tyrell closes off the roseroad, resulting in famine in King's Landing.
Renly is murdered at Storm's End. When he sees his lover's body, an enraged Loras kills three of Renly's guards, including Emmon Cuy and Robar Royce, two knights of the Rainbow Guard.
The new alliance between House Tyrell and House Lannister joins forces to battle Stannis Baratheon in the Battle of the Blackwater at King's Landing. Mace and two sons, Garlan and Loras, await Lord Tywin Lannister and his army at Tumbler's Falls. From there, they float down the Blackwater Rush upon a fleet of barges, disembarking half a day's ride from King's Landing.
Mace is granted a seat on the small council as a reward for his participation in the battle.
Servants of House Tyrell distribute food to the poor of King's Landing, by Dimitri Bielak © Fantasy Flight Games
Prior to Margaery's arrival in King's Landing, wagons of food are sent to the capital for the starving population in her name. When she arrives in the city, she is greeting by cheering crowds. Margaery and her grandmother, Lady Olenna, inquire with Sansa Stark about King Joffrey I Baratheon's nature, and learn how both Joffrey and his mother Cersei have been treating the Stark girl. When Sansa expresses fear that Margaery will refuse the marriage due to the revelation, Margaery and Olenna confide in Sansa that Mace is determined to see Margaery become a queen, while simply calling Joffrey's nature "a pity".
Ser Garlan Tyrell is granted the titles, lands and incomes of House Florent, including lordship of Brightwater Keep.
On the first day of 300 AC, Margaery marries King Joffrey at the Great Sept of Baelor in King's Landing.
Loras attempts to attack Brienne of Tarth, whom he holds responsible for Renly Baratheon's death, when she arrives in King's Landing.
After Joffrey's death, the Tyrells insist that Margaery is wed to his younger brother Tommen I, the new king.
House Tyrell Bannermen – by Tomasz Jedruszek]. © Fantasy Flight Games
After the death of Lord Tywin Lannister, Tommen's Hand of the King, Dowager Queen Cersei Lannister takes over the regency. Cersei is mistrustful of the Tyrells, feeling they overreach themselves.
Mace refuses to leave King's Landing until Margaery and Tommen are wed.
Taena of Myr claims to the queen regent that Margaery is paying Cersei's maid Senelle to spy on Cersei for her.
Margaery begins to instruct Tommen on his kingship, telling him he should sit on the Iron Throne and attend the small council meetings,
After the taking of the Shields by the ironborn, Margaery insists that her father and his forces be allowed to return to the Reach, thereby abandoning the siege of Storm's End, and is shocked when Cersei seems to lack understanding for the threat posed by the ironborn. Ser Loras asks permission to take command of the siege of Dragonstone from Lord Redwyne, so the Redwyne fleet is no longer needed at the island and can return to the Reach to face the ironborn.
In order to get rid of Margaery, Cersei attempts to frame her for adultery and treason.
When he learns about his daughter's arrest, Lord Mace abandons the siege of Storm's End and marches most of his force back to King's Landing. His bannerman, Lord Randyll Tarly, leaves Maidenpool with his own army to give Margaery his aid.
The evidence against Margaery and her cousins is weak. As such, the High Sparrow agrees to hand them over into the custody of Lord Randyll Tarly, who has arrived in King's Landing.
Kevan wonders why Mace insists on having his army present when Margaery faces her accusers, if she is as innocent as Mace would have them all believe.
Back row, left to right: Willas, Garlan, Loras, Margaery.
Front: Olenna, Mace, Alerie Hightower.Art by Cabepfir©
Growing Strong, © Fantasy Flight Games
The known Tyrells during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
Distant relations of the main branch are:
My Most leal servants.
- King Gyles III Gardener.
If truth be told, even our claim to Highgarden is a bit dodgy, just as those dreadful Florents are always whining
- Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark
Tyrell swords will make me king.
- Renly Baratheon to Stannis Baratheon
The Tyrells were only stewards that the dragon-kings had upjumped far above their station. Their vanity was exceeded only by their ambition.
– thoughts of Cersei Lannister
The more we give these Tyrells, the more they demand of us.
– thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Kevan Lannister was beginning to understand why Cersei had grown so resentful of the Tyrells.
- thoughts of Kevan Lannister
Lady Olenna's Guard - illustrated by Rafal Hrynkiewicz. © Fantasy Flight Games.
House Tyrell guards are guardsmen in the service of House Tyrell of Highgarden.
Igon Vyrwel is the captain of the guard for Mace Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden.
Lady Olenna Tyrell is protected by Arryk and Erryk, tall guards in gilded halfhelms and green cloaks edged in gold satin.
Ser Willam Wythers serves as the captain of the guard in King's Landing for the new queen, Margaery Tyrell.
Green-cloaked spearmen protect Mace, the new Hand of the King to Tommen I Baratheon, in the Red Keep.
House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep is a new noble house in the Reach, and a cadet branch of House Tyrell of Highgarden.
The new house is created after House Florent, the rulers of Brightwater Keep, are stripped of lands and titles for rebelling against the Iron Throne. The lands are bestowed on Ser Garlan Tyrell, the second son of Lord Mace Tyrell, for his participation in the Battle of the Blackwater. Brightwater, however, remains in the hands of a Florent garrison.
From King's Landing, Lord Garlan brings half of the Tyrell strength back to the Reach to press his claim on Brightwater Keep, still held by Ser Colin Florent.
The known Tyrells of Brightwater Keep during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Uffering is a noble house from the Reach. Neither their arms nor motto appear in the books. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with oak and iron paly, beneath a white chief with seven green hands.
The Ufferings trace their ancestry back to Andal adventurers given lands and wives by the Three Sage Kings of House Gardener during the Andal Invasion.
Ser Rolland Uffering, the fourth husband of Lady Rohanne Webber, died in the Great Spring Sickness. His sister was the simple and pious Lady Helicent Uffering.
The known Ufferings during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
Hellholt castle by - Alfred Khamidullin. © FFG
House Uller of Hellholt is one of the great noble houses in Dorne. Their keep, the Hellholt, is in the middle of the Dornish desert, and they are reputed to be impulsive and unpredictable. A Dornish saying is "Half of the Ullers are half-mad, and the other half are worse."
Their arms are rayonne yellow over crimson. The motto of the house does not appear in the books.
The Ullers were Andal adventurers who settled along the Brimstone.
The Ullers supported House Nymeros Martell against House Yronwood during Nymeria's War. After the death of her first husband, Nymeria was married to Lord Uller and then to Ser Davos Dayne, her final husband.
At the start of the First Dornish War, Lord Harlen Tyrell's army found the Ullers had fled the Hellholt rather than give battle. When the Dornishmen rebelled later in the war, Harlen and his garrison disappeared in the sands after leaving the Hellholt to retake Vaith and Sunspear. Qheen Rhaenys Targaryen and Meraxes were both lost at the Hellholt in 10 AC. The queen's body was never recovered by the Targaryens, however, and some said she was tortured by the Ullers.
Lord Harmen Uller, his brother Ser Ulwyck Uller, and his natural daughter Ellaria Sand are among the Dornish lords that accompany Prince Oberyn Martell to King's Landing.
Arianne Martell plans to crown Myrcella Baratheon at the Hellholt when conceiving her conspiracy, trusting the Ullers to join her cause due to their relation with Oberyn, the Red Viper.
While locked in the tower of Sunspear after the collapse of her conspiracy, Arianne ponders trying to ask for help from the Ullers, but rules it out as being too dangerous.
The Ullers are present at the feast when Ser Balon Swann arrives in Sunspear to deliver the head of Ser Gregor Clegane. They didn't drink when Ricasso raises a toast to King Tommen Baratheon.
The known Ullers during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Umber of the Last Hearth is a noble house from the Last Hearth in the north. Lord Jon Umber, called "the Greatjon", is sworn to House Stark of Winterfell. The Umber sigil is a roaring giant, brown-haired and wearing a skin, with broken silver chains, on flame-red.
The Umbers are hardy people, tempered by the rough northern climate. They control the harsh land along the Bay of Seals, south of the New Gift and extending west to the kingsroad - a place of wild hills and ancient forests of oak and pine. Their lands include the northern Last River and the Lonely Hills. The kingsroad runs along the western marches of Umber territory for a hundred leagues.
House Umber is an ancient house who once ruled as First Men kings. After many struggles, the Umbers were reduced from royals to vassals of House Stark, the Kings of Winter.
The Umbers' proximity to the Wall puts them at risk of wildling raids and they have often been called upon to help defend the north against wildling raiders.
During Robert's Rebellion, the Umbers followed Lord Eddard Stark to war, with Mors's sons dying at the Battle of the Trident.
Although they deny it, Umber lords are rumored to still practice the tradition of the lord's right to the first night, which was banned during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.
House Umber champion by Diego de Almeida © Fantasy Flight GGames
After Lord Eddard Stark's arrest in King's Landing, House Umber answers Robb Stark's call to arms, with Umber men led by the Greatjon following him south, leaving his uncles Mors Crowfood and Hother Whoresbane in command at the Last Hearth. Despite an initial row at Winterfell, the Greatjon becomes one of Robb's strongest supporters and fiercest battle commanders.
When the Stark host quarters at Moat Cailin on their march south, the Last Hearth men garrison in the Children's Tower.
House Umber Berserkers by Felicia Cano © Fantasy Flight Games
The Umber men in the south accompany King Robb on his campaign in the westerlands. The Greatjon captures several gold mines after the Battle of Oxcross,
Lord Umber's uncles attend the harvest feast at Winterfell. Hother requests ships to fight wildlings in the Bay of Seals, and is told to work with Lord Wyman Manderly to build a fleet. Mors puts himself forward as a match for the widowed Lady Donella Hornwood, but is rejected.
After Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell, he tells his sister Asha that the Umbers are gathering beyond the Last River to help liberate the Stark seat.
The Greatjon and the Smalljon return with Robb's army to the riverlands from the westerlands. The Greatjon and his men subdue Lord Rickard Karstark after he murders two Lannister squires, Willem Lannister and Tion Frey, at Riverrun, with two Umber men being wounded in the process. The Greatjon punches Rickard when the other bannerman calls Robb "boy", and hangs the other seven Karhold men who took part.
The Greatjon leads Robb's van during the journey from Riverrun to the Twins for the weddding of Lord Edmure Tully to Roslin Frey. It is unknown who the current heir is.
Maester Aemon sends a raven to the Last Hearth in a plea for help to defend Castle Black from wildlings.
With the Greatjon imprisoned, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister claims the Umbers have grudgingly joined with Lord Roose Bolton, whom the Lannisters have raised as Warden of the North in House Stark's stead. This is only partly true: Hother Whoresbane leads half the remaining Umber men under the Bolton banner, although Roose considers them untrustworthy,
Hother leads three hundred spears and a hundred archers south to Moat Cailin.
Theon reveals to Stannis that Ser Aenys Frey was killed when Frey forces rode into pits dug by Mors Crowfood's men. The troops with Mors are green boys while those with Hother are greybeards.
The known Umbers during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
The Umbers may seem simple, but they are not without a certain low cunning.
House Upcliff is a noble house from the Vale that goes back to the Age of Heroes. Their seat is located at Witch Isle. According to semi-canon sources it blazon its arms with a cresting wave, sea green on black. Its words are not known.
They have a sinister reputation.
The known Upcliffs during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Vaith of the Red Dunes is a Dornish noble house. Their seat, also named Vaith, is placed on the river with the same name. West of Vaith are the deep sands of Dorne;
Neither their arms nor words appear in the books, but according to a semi-canon source they blazon their shield with three black leopards standing on a yellow pile on orange.
The Vaiths were adventuring Andals who settled in the hills east of the deep dunes and sands of Dorne. The nearby river soon took their name.
During the War of Conquest, Queen Rhaenys Targaryen flew upon Meraxes to Vaith but found the castle abandoned.
Cassella Vaith was the third mistress of King Aegon IV Targaryen.
Arianne Martell plans to cross the Dornish desert with Myrcella Baratheon via Vaith, the Hellholt and Sandstone, but they are intercepted on the Greenblood by Areo Hotah.
The known Vaiths during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Vance of Atranta is one of the two great branches of House Vance in the riverlands, the other being House Vance of Wayfarer's Rest.
Neither their arms or their motto appear on the books. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms as quartered, a green dragon on white and a white tower on black.
Armistead Vance was the mightiest of the Andal conquerors who defeated King Tristifer IV Mudd.
In the century after the downfall of House Justman, the Vances were among the petty kings who disputed the riverlands. The Vances of Atranta joined the Blackwoods and the Tullys in rebellion against King Humfrey I Teague. Both Lords Vance were slain in the ensuing war.
The Vances joined the rebellion of river lords against Harren the Black during Aegon's Conquest.
Lord Norbert Vance squired for Lord Darry with Brynden Tully.
The Vances support Robb Stark, King of the Trident, during the War of the Five Kings. After Catelyn Stark scolds her brother, Lord Edmure Tully, for complaining about Roslin Frey's expected lack of beauty, she sees how he avoids her, preferring the company of, among others, the young Vances.
Catelyn sees an unspecified Vance being hamstrung by Black Walder Frey during the Red Wedding,
King Tommen I Baratheon signs the pardon of Lord Vance after the war.
Ser Hugo Vance survived the Red Wedding, and presumably traveled to King's Landing to swear his house's fealty to the Iron Throne. He joins Ser Jaime Lannister in his expedition to besiege Riverrun.
Both branches of House Vance are present at the siege of Riverrun,
The known Vances of Atranta during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:
House Vance is a reference by George R. R. Martin to the author Jack Vance, who was one of Martin's favorite authors. The dragons in their sigil refer to Vance's *The Dragon Masters* and the towers to his *The Last Castle. Atranta is a reference by Martin to a land in Vance's *Bad Ronald.
House Vance of Wayfarer's Rest is one of the two great branches of House Vance in the riverlands, the other being House Vance of Atranta.
Neither their arms or their motto appear on the books. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms as quartered, a black dragon on white, two golden eyes in a golden ring on black.
House Smallwood is sworn to Wayfarer's Rest.
Armistead Vance was the mightiest of the Andal conquerors who defeated King Tristifer IV Mudd.
In the century after the downfall of House Justman, the Vances were among the petty kings which disputed the riverlands. Lord Vance was slain in the war between the Teagues and the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon. Lord Robert Vance was a would-be river king during the rule of the Storm Kings; it is unknown which branch of the Vances he was from.
The Vances joined the rebellion of river lords against Harren the Black during Aegon's Conquest.
When the Lannisters start massing men at the Golden Tooth, Ser Edmure Tully commands Lord Piper and Lord Vance of Wayfarer's Rest to guard the pass.
Lord Vance is slain when the Lannisters attack from the Golden Tooth.
Robb allows the rivermen to return to their homes, so Karyl leaves Riverrun to defend Wayfarer's Rest.
At the Battle of the Fords, Lord Karyl is commanded with the defense of the fords north of Riverrun.
Lord Vance is among the seven nobles who launch the funeral boat of Lord Hoster Tully.
King Tommen I Baratheon signs the pardon of Lord Vance in the aftermath of the Red Wedding.
Both branches of House Vance are present at the siege of Riverrun,
The known Vances of Wayfarer's Rest during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:
House Smallwood of Acorn Hall.
House Vance is a reference by George R. R. Martin to the author Jack Vance, who was one of Martin's favorite authors. The dragons in their sigil refer to Vance's *The Dragon Masters* and the eyes to his *The Eyes of the Overworld. Wayfarer's Rest refers to Vance's *Liane the Wayfarer.
House Varner is a noble house from the Reach. Its current lord is Steffon Varner.
According to semi-canon sources they blazon their shields with a white weasel on ermines.
The Varners trace their ancestry back to Andal adventurers given lands and wives by the Three Sage Kings of House Gardener during the Andal Invasion.
Lord Steffon Varner is part of Renly Baratheon's army camped beneath the walls of Bitterbridge.
Steffon fights at the Battle of the Blackwater, severely injures his knee, and is captured. He bends the knee to King Joffrey I.
The known Varners during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Velaryon of Driftmark rules the island of Driftmark, the largest island of Blackwater Bay in the crownlands. Their castles include Driftmark and High Tide.
House Velaryon is of Valyrian descent, and its members often have Valyrian features, such as silver hair, purple eyes, and pale skin.
House Velaryon is an ancient and proud house, with the blood of old Valyria in its veins.
Their close proximity to the Gullet enabled the Velaryons to fill their coffers from trade in the narrow sea and Blackwater Bay. They allied with House Targaryen from Dragonstone and House Celtigar from Claw Isle, both houses of Valyrian descent; While the Velaryons and Celtigars dominated the middle reaches of the narrow sea with their ships, the Targaryens ruled the skies with their dragons.
The close relations between Houses Velaryon and Targaryen resulted in multiple marriages between the houses, both before and after the Wars of Conquest. From one such marriage was born Valaena Velaryon.
House Velaryon allied with the Targaryens at the start of Aegon's Conquest. Lord Daemon Velaryon was made master of ships by Aegon the Conqueror after the mouth of the Blackwater Rush had been secured. Daemon died fighting for Aegon I in the battle in the waters off Gulltown, however.
A Velaryon bannerman serving at Dragonstone. Illustrated by Even Mehl Amundsen. © Fantasy Flight Games.
House Velaryon kept an influential position at the court of the Targaryen kings during the first two centuries of the Targaryen reign. In 10 AC Ser Corlys Velaryon became the first Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.
Aethan's daughter, Alyssa, was married to Prince Aenys Targaryen, heir to the throne, in 22 AC, with whom she had six children (Rhaena, Aegon, Viserys, Jaehaerys, Alysanne, and Vaella.
Alyssa's son Jaehaerys became king at the age of fourteen, and Alyssa ruled as his regent, aided by Lord Robar Baratheon.
Rule of Driftmark was eventually inherited by Lord Corlys Velaryon, also known as the Sea Snake, who rose to fame with his many voyages across the seas of the world. He accumulated so much wealth that House Velaryon became the richest house in the realm, and himself the wealthiest man in the Seven Kingdoms. Because their ancestral castle, Driftmark, was damp and crowded, Corlys constructed a new seat for the Velaryons, High Tide.
Alyssa's daughter Jocelyn was eventually wed to Alyssa's grandson, Prince Aemon Targaryen, at the time the heir to the throne. Their child, Princess Rhaenys, was in turn wed to Lord Corlys, and gave birth to two children by him: Laena and Laenor, both of whom became dragonriders. During the Great Council of 101 AC, Laenor's claim to the throne was presented before the lords of the Seven Kingdoms. Although primogeniture favored him, and his father's wealth, fame and reputation resulted is much support for Laenor, but in the end, he lost to Prince Viserys Targaryen,
Corlys eventually befriended Prince Daemon Targaryen, with whom he invaded the Stepstones in 106 AC. When Daemon's wife, Rhea Royce, died in 115 AC, Corlys happily agreed to wed Laena to Daemon, following the death of Laena's betrothed. Laena's brother, Laenor, had married Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Princess of Dragonstone, the year before. Although that marriage resulted in three sons, it was rumored that all three boys were bastards of Ser Harwin Strong, as they looked nothing like Rhaenyra and Laenor.
Rhaenyra Targaryen added the Velaryon seahorse and the Arryn falcon to the Targaryen dragon.
Rhaenyra Targaryen and her family receive the news of Prince Lucerys Velaryon's death at the hands of Prince Aemond Targaryen. Screencap from *Game of Thrones*, Complete Guide to Westeros
Corlys and his wife, Rhaenys, were major supporters of Rhaenyra Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons, in which Rhaenyra's half-brother Aegon II Targaryen claimed the Iron Throne, despite Rhaenyra having been the proclaimed heir of the late King Viserys I. Prince Jacaerys Velaryon flew to Winterfell and negotiated the Pact of Ice and Fire.
When Prince Jacaerys offered the people of Dragonstone to attempt and claim a dragon, to increase the number of dragonriders, Addam of Hull and his brother Alyn made their attempt. Addam succeeded in claiming the dragon Seasmoke, who had previously been ridden by Ser Laenor Velaryon. According to their mother, Marilda, Laenor had fathered the two boys, which many found a dubious claim, as Laenor had preferred men. The court fool Mushroom suggests that Addam and Alyn had actually been fathered by Corlys, who had kept them far away from his fiery-tempered wife. With his wife now dead, and the paternity of his son Laenor's children in question, Corlys agreed to adopt both boys into House Velaryon, petitioning Rhaenyra to remove the taint of bastardy from them, enabling him to name them his heirs.
Corlys used his fleets to blockade Blackwater Bay. However, Jacaerys was killed and the blockade was broken in the Battle of the Gullet. The Velaryons lost nearly a third of their ships and the Triarchy sacked Spicetown and High Tide, with Spicetown never rebuilt.
When Rhaenyra became paranoid following the betrayal of the new dragonriders later on in the war, she ordered Addam's arrest. Corlys objected, and when ignored, warned Addam, allowing him to flee King's Landing. Addam later fought at the Second Battle of Tumbleton, proving his loyalty to Rhaenyra by defeating her foes at the cost of his own life. Meanwhile, Corlys was thrown in the dungeon, and so the Velaryon fleet abandoned Rhaenyra's cause.
Corlys was freed when Aegon II took King's Landing after the Moon of the Three Kings.
Following the death of his first wife, Jaehaera Targaryen, King Aegon III Targaryen married Lady Daenaera Velaryon, the daughter of Daeron Velaryon, a cousin to Lord Alyn Velaryon. Daenaera gave birth to five children: Daeron, Baelor, Daena, Rhaena, and Elaena. Although both of her sons would rule as kings, both died childless. Through her daughter Daena, however, Daenaera is an ancestor of House Blackfyre.
Alyn Velaryon, formerly Alyn of Hull, became of Lord of Driftmark upon the death of Corlys the Sea Snake. During the regency of Aegon III, Alyn was the greatest rival to Lord Unwin Peake, then Hand of the King. Alyn was refused his grandfather's place as regent for the young king, and then was made to sail against the Stepstones, where he won a great victory at sea and earned the name Oakenfist. Alyn was later dispatched to the westerlands to defeat Dalton Greyjoy, the Red Kraken. Lord Unwin had hoped that Alyn would fail, but instead, this expedition became the first of Alyn's six great voyages.
In 157 AC, Alyn Oakenfist took a decisive part in King Daeron I Targaryen's conquest of Dorne as master of ships.
Alyn had an unknown number of children with his wife, Lady Baela Targaryen, the eldest daughter of Prince Daemon Targaryen and Lady Laena Velaryon.
The Velaryons frequently served as master of ships—so often that at times the office had seemed hereditary—and provided much of the Iron Throne's royal fleet.
During Robert's Rebellion, Rhaegar and Aerys were killed in the Battle of the Trident and the Sack of King's Landing, respectively. The loyalist fleet anchored at Dragonstone was destroyed by the terrible summer storm which raged during the birth of Daenerys Targaryen.
Lord Monford Velaryon answers Stannis Baratheon's summons when he crowns himself king and calls his banners. Stannis expects Monford will threaten to take his levies home unless they attack at once.
When Stannis besieges Storm's End during the War of the Five Kings, Lord Monford urges him to storm the castle walls as soon as possible.
Monford is succeeded by his six-year-old son, Monterys.
The seahorse arms of House Velaryon are spotted by Jon Snow during the attack by Stannis on the wildling camp north of the Wall.
Aurane Waters wins the favor of Queen Cersei Lannister, who finds that Aurane reminds her of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen due to his Valyrian appearance.
When Queen Margaery Tyrell is accused of adultery, Aurane suggests setting the new ships on the Blackwater Rush to impose order and be an unspoken threat against Margaery's father, Lord Mace Tyrell.
The known Velaryons during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
He was a scion of House Velaryon: a family of old and storied Valyrian heritage who had come to Westeros before the Targaryens, as the histories agree, and who often provided the bulk of the royal fleet.
- writings of Yandel
Tonight I am to sup with my lords bannermen, such as they are. Celtigar, Velaryon, Bar Emmon, the whole paltry lot of them. A poor crop, if truth be told, but they are what my brothers have left me.
- Stannis Baratheon to Cressen
House Vikary is a house of landed knights sworn to Casterly Rock.
Their arms, according to semi-canon sources, are quarterly: a red boar's head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red. The reversing in the second and third quarters of the red and silver of the Reyne arms beneath a bend sinister may indicate that the founder of the house was either a Reyne bastard or a descendant of a Reyne bastard.
The news of the Battle of Oxcross that reaches King's Landing reports that Ser Lymond Vikary had been slain.
Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at Wayfarer's Rest.
The known Vikarys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Vikary is a reference by George R. R. Martin to Jaan Vikary, a character in his first novel, *Dying of the Light*.
House Volmark of Volmark is a noble house from the Iron Islands. Their seat of Volmark is on the island of Harlaw, and they are sworn to the house of the same name. They have large holdings on the island and have a decorated history.
They blazon their arms with a black leviathan on a grey sea. Their words are not known.
Lord Qhorin Volmark claimed the title of King of the Iron Islands, as his grandmother was the younger sister of King Harwyn Hardhand. He was slain by King Aegon I Targaryen in 2 AC, however. Lord Goren Greyjoy defeated a conspiracy to crown Qhorin's son in 33 AC.
When the kingsmoot is summoned, Lord Rodrik Harlaw calls his bannermen in Asha Greyjoy's name. Among others, the Volmarks gather in Harlaw. While standing ashore on Old Wyk a Volmark greets Victarion Greyjoy. Tarle the Thrice-Drowned claims that Lord Maron Volmark has the best claim on the Seastone Chair. Aeron Greyjoy spots the banners of House Volmark among those gathered for the kingsmoot on Old Wyk. During the kingsmoot, however, all the lords and captains are free to choose their candidate, and Maron supports Victarion.
When the Shield Islands are conquered by the ironmen, King Euron Greyjoy names Maron Lord of Greenshield. Victarion interprets it as a way to reinforce Euron's prestige by gaining the support of the young lord, who descends from Black Harren's line through his mother.
The known Volmarks during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Vypren is a noble house of the riverlands. Neither their arms nor their motto has appeared in the books. According to semi-canon sources, they blazon their arms with a black toad on white lily pad, on green.
During the Andal invasion of the riverlands, the Andal warlord Vorian Vypren and his knights were held at bay at the Widow's Ford for a day and a night by three sons of Lord Darry before finally slaying the Darrys.
The Vyprens supported Harwyn Hardhand, King of the Iron Islands, when he warred against the Storm King Arrec Durrandon.
Lady Sabitha Vypren was married to the gallant Lord Forrest Frey.
Lord Lucias Vypren is married to Lythene Frey, the daughter of Lord Walder Frey and his third wife, Amarei Crakehall. Lucias and his son, Ser Damon, attend the wedding at the Twins of Lord Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey,
Lucias tracks a band of outlaws who may have been part of the group that hanged Merrett Frey all the way to Fairmarket before losing them.
The known Vyprens during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Vyrwel of Darkdell is a noble house from Darkdell in the Reach. It is one of the principal houses sworn to House Tyrell.
According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a silver wyvern within a red double tressure on sable. Their motto has not appeared yet.
Lord Vyrwel and his lady wife attended the Whitewalls Tourney. After the Second Blackfyre Rebellion was put down, a man in service to Lord Vyrwel claimed to have been one of the spies of Brynden Rivers. He was promptly killed by a man in service to Lord Costayne.
The known Vywels during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Wade is an extinct noble house from Dorne. Their arms are not yet given.
The Wades were among the dozen First Men houses of the Greenblood who chose a High King of Dorne from amongst their number.
House Wagstaff is a noble house from the Stormlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with five yellow mascles on green. Their words are not known.
Ser Humfrey Wagstaff was the third and final betrothed of Brienne of Tarth. She agreed to marry him only if he could beat her in a fight, which he could not do.
The known Wagstaffs during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Waterman is a noble house from the north. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with brown crossed oars on white, between a pair of blue flaunches.
The known Watermans during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Waxley of Wickenden is a noble house from Wickenden in the south of the Vale. They are sworn to House Arryn of the Eyrie.
*A Feast for Crows* mentions the House's arms as six white candles.
Lord Waxley gave Lady Lysa Arryn scented beeswax candles as a present in hopes of marrying the widow.
A knight whose doublet is decorated with the six candles of House Waxley accompanies Lord Nestor Royce to interrogate Alayne Stone after Lysa's death.
Lord Waxley attends Lord Lyonel Corbray's wedding in Gulltown, which the Lords Declarant shun.
Lady Waxley arrives at the Gates of the Moon before the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights. Lord Nestor Royce shows her hunting tapestries which once belonged to King Robert I Baratheon.
The known Waxleys during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Wayn is a noble house from the riverlands. According to semi-canon sources, they blazon their arms with four wheels counterchanged on quartered field blue and white.
Ser Tristifer Wayn participated in the battle at the Great Fork during the Faith Militant uprising.
Utherydes Wayn is the steward of Riverrun and is of an age with Lord Hoster Tully.
The known Wayns during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Waynwood of Ironoaks is a noble house from Ironoaks in the Vale. They are one of the great noble families sworn to House Arryn. They are known for their insistence on ceremony.
They blazon their arms with a black broken wheel on green. Their words do not appear in the books.
Wild Wyl Waynwood was a part of Lord Arryn's van during the Battle of the Redgrass Field, and was cut down by Daemon Blackfyre himself.
Elys Waynwood married Alys Arryn, sister of Lord Jon Arryn, and had nine children. One of their daughters married a knight of House Hardyng, and had a son named Harrold Hardyng, who is heir presumptive to House Arryn and a ward of House Waynwood.
When Catelyn Stark reaches the Bloody Gate with Tyrion Lannister and is attacked by Vale mountain clansmen, their group is saved by a sortie led by Ser Donnel Waynwood. While riding up to the Gate, Donnel ceremonially asks permission to enter the Vale.
Lady Anya Waynwood is at the Eyrie during Tyrion's trial by battle with her sons.
Ser Donnel becomes Knight of the Gate after Ser Brynden Tully left the post vacant.
When discussing King Robb Stark's succession, his mother Catelyn Stark recalls that Lord Eddard Stark's grandfather had a sister who married a younger son of Lord Raymar Royce and had three daughters, one of whom married a Waynwood.
The Waynwoods support Lord Yohn Royce when he pressures Lady Lysa to enter the War of the Five Kings.
Lady Anya Waynwood is one of the Lords Declarant who try to depose Lord Petyr Baelish, the Lord Protector of the Vale.
Lady Anya, her son Wallace and grandson Roland, and her ward Harrold Hardyng, attend the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights at the Gates of the Moon. Alayne Stone greets them when they arrive.
The known Waynwoods during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there is also:
House Weaver is a noble house from the Iron Islands. Neither its arms nor its words have appeared yet. It is a young house and low in prestige.
Members of House Weaver are spotted at the kingsmoot by Victarion Greyjoy. Romny Weaver, one of Victarion's supporters, sings old reaving songs.
The known Weavers during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Webber of Coldmoat is a noble house from Coldmoat in the Reach. It is sworn to House Rowan. Their lands used to border those of House Osgrey.
Their blazon is a black field with a spotted spider on a silver web.
Lord Reynard Webber once ruled Coldmoat.
Lord Wyman Webber fought at the Battle of the Redgrass Field, where his squire, the first husband of Wyman's daughter Lady Rohanne Webber, died. Rohanne's third husband was Ser Simon Staunton and her fourth was Ser Rolland Uffering.
Rohanne, Lady of Coldmoat, married Ser Eustace Osgrey in order to keep Coldmoat from going to her cousin, Wendell Webber, who was married to Lord Rowan's sister.
Webber, a sellsword with the Windblown who is decorated with spider tattoos, is said to nurse a claim to lost lands in Westeros.
House Wells is a noble house from Dorne. Their arms are not yet given..
Ser Theodan Wells joins the Warrior's Sons in King's Landing.
Ser Willam Wells is among the party that escorts Prince Quentyn Martell to the Free Cities. While en route to Volantis their ship, the *Meadowlark*, is attacked and Willam is among those slain.
Ser Theodan accompanies Cersei on her walk of shame.
The known Wells during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Wells is a noble house from the north. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with per fess: five black roundels on grey over green and white lozengy..
Ser Theodan Wells joins the Warrior's Sons in King's Landing. It is uncertain which House Wells Ser Theodan belongs to.
The known Wells during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Wendwater is a noble house from the Crownlands. According to semi-canon sources their seat is along the Wendwater in the kingswood south of King's Landing. They blazon their arms with a green engrailed pall, inverted on white, dividing three trees, green, red and bare.
The known Wendwaters during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Wensington is a noble house from the stormlands. According to semi-canon sources, their arms are two golden trumpets crossed on blue, a gold chief with three black stags.
As the upper part of the Wensington coat of arms shows the stag of House Baratheon and House Durrandon, the house may have been founded by a Baratheon or Durrandon.
The Wensington banners are seen at the Wall during Stannis Baratheon's expedition to help the Night's Watch..
The known Wensingtons during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Westbrook is a noble house from the Reach. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with two green bars gemmel on gold. Their words are not known.
The known Westbrooks during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
House Westerling of the Crag is a noble house from the Crag in the northwestern westerlands. They are sworn to House Lannister of Casterly Rock, and are considered among their principal bannermen.
The Westerlings are an ancient and proud house descended from the First Men of the Age of Heroes.
After the death of her husband, Lord Alyn Tarbeck, Jeyne Westerling married King Maegor I of House Targaryen.
Ser Harrold Westerling was asked to join the Kingsguard under Viserys I Targaryen and he rose to the position of Lord Commander.
Ser Ormond Westerling participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC. Their arms were spotted by Ser Duncan the Tall among the gathered heraldry.
According to a semi-canon source,.
During Robert's Rebellion, Ser Elys Westerling participated in the Sack of King's Landing. Elys witnessed the aftermath of King Aerys II Targaryen's death at the hands of Ser Jaime Lannister.
The Westerlings' fortunes have faltered over the years, with lands and mines being sold until the Westerlings were reduced to little wealth and influence. They now scarcely have the funds to maintain the Crag, which is now more ruin than stronghold, and they are regarded as having more pride than power.
Lord Gawen Westerling is captured by Lord Jason Mallister in the battle in the Whispering Wood.
Gawen is held at Seagard during his imprisonment.
Around the time of the Battle of the Fords, Robb Stark, King in the North, and his forces in the westerlands march on the Crag.
Ser Rolph Spicer yields to Robb during the storming of the Crag. Rolph and his sister, Lord Gawen's wife Sybell, discretely negotiate with their liege, Lord Tywin Lannister, in return for promises of worthy marriages for Sybell's daughters, Jeyne and Eleyna.
Robb's marriage with Jeyne breaks his alliance with House Frey, as he had promised to marry a daughter of Lord Walder Frey. and is presumed dead.
The Westerlings are pardoned by King Tommen I Baratheon and welcomed back into the king's peace after the Red Wedding. Rolph Spicer is named Lord of Castamere.
During the siege of Riverrun, Gawen expresses to Ser Daven Lannister his concern for his family within the castle.
The known Westerlings during the timespan of the events described on A Song of Ice and Fire are:
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:
The Westerlings were old blood, but they had more pride than power.
– thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion: Could the Westerlings and Spicers be such great fools as to believe the wolf can defeat the lion?
Tywin: The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
House Westford is a minor house of landed knights from the westerlands.*.
The known Westfords during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
The known Westfords appearing in *Game of Thrones* are:
House Whent of Harrenhal is a noble house from the riverlands. Their seat is the huge castle of Harrenhal, built three hundred years ago by Harren the Black.
They blazon their arms depict nine black bats displayed over a yellow field. Their words do not appear in the books.
The Whents may have high cheekbones. Sansa Stark and her mother, Catelyn Stark, are known for their fine high cheekbones,
The Whents are the seventh noble house to rule Harrenhal, after Houses Hoare, Qoherys, Harroway, Towers, Strong, and Lothston. The Whents were originally knights in the service of the Lothstons. When Lady Danelle Lothston went mad during the reign of King Maekar I Targaryen, the Whents received Harrenhal for their role in defeating the Lothstons.
Hoster Tully, Lord Paramount of the Trident, and Lady Minisa Whent had three children, Catelyn, Lysa, and Edmure. Minisa later died in childbirth.
Lord Walter Whent hosted the tourney at Harrenhal in 281 AC.
Ser Oswell Whent served in the Kingsguard of King Aerys II Targaryen and was slain during the War of the Usurper.
Knight of Harrenhal by Lucas Soriana. © Fantasy Flight Games.
When thinking about her father Hoster Tully's most important bannermen, Catelyn Stark reflects that Lady Shella Whent, the last of her line, is dwelling with her ghosts in the cavernous vaults of Harrenhal.
When Lord Tywin Lannister approaches with his army, Lady Whent yields Harrenhal and flees, lacking enough men to defend the massive castle.
Ser Oswell Whent appears in Lord Eddard Stark's fevered dream about the tower of joy, wearing the black bat of his house over his white-enameled helm.
Yoren states that Lady Whent has always been a friend of the Night's Watch.
The acting Hand of the King, Tyrion Lannister, strips Lord Slynt of Harrenhal. Petyr Baelish is given the castle of Harrenhal and the title of Lord Paramount of the Trident for his services to King Joffrey during the War of the Five Kings.
The tourney at Harrenhal organized by Lord Walter Whent is remembered both in Meera Reed's story about the Knight of the Laughing Tree
Ser Danwell Frey, the husband of the childless Wynafrei Whent, participates in the Red Wedding.
Petyr Baelish uses the reported death of Shella Whent as a warning of the fate of all those who claim Harrenhal.
The known Whents during the timespan of the events described in *A Song of Ice and Fire* are:
With unknown relations to the main line are:
The fertility of the Whent women is questionable. Wynafrei and Sarya are both childless. Minisa and her line proved fertile, although Minisa died in childbirth.
There is some confusion as to Lady Shella Whent. George R. R. Martin has confirmed that she is the mother of the "fair maid" during the tourney at Harrenhal in 281 AC. As Oswell Whent is described as the uncle of the "fair maid", this would thus suggest that Shella was not a Whent by birth, but only by marriage, as her husband, Lord Walter Whent, would thus be Oswell's brother.
Lady Shella Whent was the mother of the "fair maid" at the Harrenhal tournament. Ser Oswell Whent would have been her husband's brother, and therefore uncle to the "fair maid."
However, in *A Clash of Kings*, it is stated that it was Shella's father who had been the Lord of Harrenhal.
You know old Ben Blackthumb? He came here as a boy. Smithed for Lady Whent and her father before her and his father before him, and even for Lord Lothston who held Harrenhal before the Whents.
This suggests that Lady Shella is a Whent by birth.
One possible explanation is that Shella and her late husband Walter were cousins, and thus both Whents by birth. It would, in that case, have been Shella who would have inherited Harrenhal from her father, as a daughter comes before an uncle (and thus also before a male cousin). As a marriage might lead to House Whent losing Harrenhal (by name at least), it is possible that Shella married her cousin, who, upon Shella inheriting Harrenhal, would become Lord Whent. This way, Harrenhal would remain in the House.
Since it is not uncommon for cousins to get married in Westeros, this seems to be an option.