House Corbray
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| Coat of Arms | Three black ravens in flight holding three red hearts, on white |
|---|---|
| Seat | Heart's Home |
| Current Lord | Lyonnel Corbray |
| Heir | Ser Lyn Corbray |
| Overlord | House Arryn |
| Ancestral weapon | Lady Forlon |
House Corbray of Heart's Home is one of the main noble houses from the Vale.
The ancestral Valyrian sword from house Corbray is called Lady Forlon.
Their arms are three black ravens in flight holding three red hearts, on white. Their words do not appear in the books.
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[edit] The Corbray House at the end of the third century
The known Corbrays during the timespan of the events described on A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Lord Lyonnel Corbray: Lord of Heart's Home. A childless man of forty-odd years.
- Ser Lyn Corbray: His brother. A quarrelsome knight.
- Ser Lucas Corbray: His brother.
[edit] References in the books
[edit] Dunk and Egg
- Ser Gwayne Corbray of the Kingsguard was part of the loyalist forces that fought Daemon Blackfyre on the Redgrass Field. Both men duele for nearly an hour, their Valyrian swords Blackfyre and Lady Forlon clashing loud. At last, Blackfyre stroke Gawayne's helm and left him blind and bleeding. Daemon dismounted to tend his foe and ordered Redtusk to caryy Gwayne back to the maesters for healing, an action that afterwards some considered decisive, since it gave the Raven's Teeth enough timb to find a good position to fire the arrows that killed him.
[edit] A Song of Ice and Fire
- Mya Stone confesses to Catelyn being infatuated with Mychel Redford, Ser Lyn Corbray's squire.
- Ser Lyn Corbray was one of Lady Lysa suitors, and stayed with her at the Eyre for half a year after Jon's death.
- Ser Lyn offered himself as a champion for Lady Lysa on Tyrion's trial by battle, stating that he was the surest sword there.
- When discussing Robb's succesion, Catelyn recalls that Eddard Stark's grandfather had a sister who married Lord Raymar Royce and had three daughters, one of whose married a Corbray.
- Petys Baelish great-grandfather was born in Braavos, and came to the Vale as a sellsword hired by Lord Corbray.
- Lysa was angered at Lord Corbray for asking for his son Robert to be sent to them as a ward, and did not believe that they truly loved her.
- Leaving her new wife Lysa and Sansa at the Eyrie, Littlefinger spent four days meeting with the Corbrays.
- Although Lyonnel Corbray was content enough with Littlefinger's rule, Lyn Corbray joins the Lords Declarant.
- Jaime Lannister refers to Gwayane Corbray as one of the outstanding members of the kingsguard.
- Littlefinger explains how Lyn Corbray fought Jon Arryn at the Gates of Gulltown, and later joined him at the Battle of the Trident.
- There he took Lady Forlon after his father was cut down and avenged him. His father gave him Lady Forlorn to him upon his death, something his older brother ressented.
- Ser Lyn Corbray is seen by Sansa as a handsome mature man "with a wary glance at his hard mouth and restless eyes". He wears his brown hair at shoulder lenght, one stray lock curled down across his forehead.
- Even though being Littlefinger's guest, Ser Lyn draws a sword and menaces him during the parley with the Lords Declarant.
- Sansa discovered that Ser Lyn had been bought by Littlefinger from the begining, in order to undermine the Lords Declarant.
- Littlefinger confesses that he rewards Ser Lyn for his services with "gold and boys and promises", defining him as a man of simple tastes.
- Littlefinger arranged the wedding between childless Lyonel Corbray and the daughter of a rich Gulltown merchant who provided an enormous dowyer.
- The Lords Declarant were supposed to shun Lyonel Corbray's wedding. At the end, Lord Belmore, Lady Waynwood and the Knight of Ninestars attended, as well as the Lords Waxley, Grafton and Lynderly.
- By the end of AFFC, Mychel Redfort is no longer Lyn Corbray's squire. The new squire is a loutish lad that he took only for coin, presumedly with Littlefinger's intervention (who had promised him boys and gold).
| Houses from the Vale | |
| Overlords: | Arryn |
|---|---|
| Noble houses: | Belmore | Borrell | Coldwater | Corbray | Grafton | Hunter Lynderly | Redfort | Royce | Royce (Gates of the Moon) Sunderland | Tollet | Waynwood |
| Knightly Houses: | Templeton | Waxley |
