House Sparr

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House name House Sparr
Coat of ArmsAn oak saltire on blue
SeatGreat Wyk
Current LordThe Sparr
RegionIron Islands
Great Wyk
OverlordHouse Greyjoy

House Sparr of Great Wyk rules over a part of this island. Their lands are about six leagues from Hammerhorn.

Neither their arms or their motto appear in the books. In correspondence with fans George R.R. Martin has blazoned the arms as oak saltire on blue

[edit] The Sparr House at the end of the third century

The known Sparrs during the timespan of the events described on A Song of Ice and Fire are:

  • Lord Sparr: a hatchet-faced old man with watery eyes. Called The Sparr.
    • Ser Steffarion: his son.


[edit] References in the books

[edit] A Song of Ice and Fire

  • The Sparrs were one of the bannermen of Balon Greyjoy that Theon saw on the halls of Pyke prepared for war.
  • Lord Sparr and his son brought the news of the death of Balon Greyjoy to his brother Aeron.


Houses from the Iron Islands
Overlords: Greyjoy
Noble houses: Blacktyde | Botley | Drumm | Farwynd | Goodbrother | Harlaw
Orkwood | Saltcliffe | Sparr | Sunderly | Tawney | Volmark | Wynch
Extinct houses: Greyiron | Hoare
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