Lynesse Hightower

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Title Lady of Bear Island (formerly)
Allegiances
Culture Reach
Born In roughly 271 AC or 272 AC[1]Oldtown[2]
Father Leyton Hightower
Spouse Jorah Mormont
Lover Tregar Ormollen
Books

Lynesse Hightower is the youngest daughter of Lord Leyton Hightower of Oldtown.[3] She was the second wife of Ser Jorah Mormont and is now the chief concubine of Tregar Ormollen in Lys.

Appearance

The beautiful Lynesse has golden hair, skin the color of cream, and soft hands.[4] She looks similar to Daenerys Targaryen.[3]

History

During the tourney at Lannisport, Lynesse allowed her favor to be worn by Ser Jorah Mormont, Lord of Bear Island, who was twice her age and widowed. He crowned her the queen of love and beauty after winning the tourney and asked for her hand in marriage, to which Lord Leyton Hightower consented. Lynesse and Jorah married shortly thereafter in Lannisport.[3]

Although they had married for love, the marriage did not remain happy for long. Having grown up in House Hightower in prosperous Oldtown, Lynesse was unprepared for life at poor Bear Island in the north, and she quickly became miserable. Jorah attempted to reproduce the luxurious lifestyle his wife was accustomed to by lavishing her with expensive gifts and voyages to Lannisport, Oldtown, and Braavos, but Jorah quickly drove himself into financial ruin. Lynesse was unimpressed with Jorah's defeats in other tourneys, and she refused to sell her jewelry.[3] During a visit to Winterfell, a drunken Lynesse confessed her unhappiness to Lady Catelyn Stark.[4]

In desperation, Jorah began looking to less savory ways of paying off his debts, attempting to raise money by selling some convicted poachers to a Tyroshi slaver.[3] Learning that one of his bannermen had engaged in the slave trade, Lord Eddard Stark declared Jorah's life forfeit.[3] Rather than face the Warden of the North, Jorah fled with Lynesse to Essos in 293 AC.[5]

Jorah would have preferred to live in Braavos, but he instead chose the warmer Lys to make Lynesse happy. Jorah became a sellsword, but Lynesse outspent his earnings tenfold. While he was fighting Braavosi on the Rhoyne, Lynesse moved into the manse of Tregar Ormollen, a Lysene merchant prince.[3] Tregar threatened to enslave Jorah if he did not give up Lynesse, so the northman abandoned Lys for Volantis.[6] Lynesse is now Tregar's chief concubine; even his wife goes in fear of her.[3]

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

While in Vaes Tolorro Ser Jorah Mormont tells Daenerys Targaryen of his second wife, Lynesse, and his ill-fated marriage to her.[3]

A Storm of Swords

While traveling in the rain to the Twins, Lady Maege Mormont and her heir, Dacey, speak of Lynesse to Catelyn Stark.[4]

A Feast for Crows

When Ser Humfrey Hightower sails to Lys to hire sellsails to help fight off the ironborn attack on the Reach, it is a commonly-held hope that Lynesse will help him get the best possible fleet.[7] While talking with Samwell Tarly, the captain of the Huntress refers to Lynesse as Humfrey's "whore of a sister".[7]

A Dance with Dragons

While in Volantis, Jorah tells his prisoner, Tyrion Lannister, of Lynesse abandoning him for Tregar Ormollen.[6]

Quotes about Lynesse

Daenerys: Tell me the name of your ghost, Jorah. You know all of mine.
Jorah: Her name was Lynesse.[3]

The first time I beheld her, I thought she was a goddess come to earth, the Maid herself made flesh.[3]

Arstan had seen Ser Jorah fight at Lannisport, Dany knew, in the tourney Mormont had won with a lady's favor knotted round his arm. He had won the lady too; Lynesse of House Hightower, his second wife, highborn and beautiful ... but she had ruined him, and abandoned him, and the memory of her was bitter to him now.[8]

—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen

Dacey: She had hair like spun gold, that Lynesse. Skin like cream. But her soft hands were never made for axes.
Maege: Nor her teats for giving suck.[4]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
Hightower
 
Unknown
wife
 
Gerold
 
Unknown
Hightower
 
Unknown
Archmaester
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three
wives
 
Leyton
 
Rhea
Florent
 
 
 
 
 
Walys
Flowers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Baelor
 
Rhonda
Rowan
 
Malora
 
Garth
 
Alerie
 
Mace
Tyrell
 
Leyla
 
Jon
Cupps
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Willas
Tyrell
 
Garlan
Tyrell
 
Loras
Tyrell
 
Margaery
Tyrell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Denyse
 
Desmond
Redwyne
 
Alysanne
 
Arthur
Ambrose
 
Gunthor
 
Jeyne
Fossoway
 
Humfrey
 
Lynesse
 
Jorah
Mormont
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Denys
Redwyne
 
 
 
 
 
Alyn
Ambrose
 


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