Robert Rowan

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House Rowan.svg Ser
Robert Rowan
House Rowan.svg
Title Ser[1]
Allegiance House Rowan
Culture Reach
Born In 88119 AC[2]
Died In 134 AC[1], the Mountains of the Moon[1]
Father Thaddeus Rowan
Books

Robert Rowan was a knight from House Rowan and the heir to Goldengrove during the regency of King Aegon III Targaryen.[1]

History

Ser Robert was the eldest son of Lord Thaddeus Rowan of Goldengrove and his first wife. He had one full brother, and five younger half-brothers by his father's second wife.[1][3]

In 132 AC, Princess Baela Targaryen claimed to have bedded Robert and a brother of his when a marriage was proposed between her and Lord Thaddeus. However, Archmaester Gyldayn notes the princess was deliberately provocative at times. Robert's father instead married Lady Floris Baratheon.[3]

In 134 AC, a war of succession broke out in the Vale of Arryn after the death of Lady Jeyne Arryn, and the killing of the king's regent, Ser Corwyn Corbray, at Runestone. As the son of the Hand of the King, Robert was given command of an army of five thousand men. They set out on the kingsroad to the Bloody Gate to restore the King's Peace, as it was thought that the Mountains of the Moon would be passable with the coming of spring. Levies from Maidenpool, Darry, and Hayford joined them on the march, and six hundred Freys and a thousand Blackwoods joined them at the Trident, making them nine thousand strong entering the mountains. A naval attack was also launched at the command of Ser Gedmund Peake.[1]

The high road proved far less open than had been assumed. Robert's host found itself struggling through deep snows in the mountain passes, slowing their advance to a crawl, and the baggage train was often attacked by mountain clans. Once, whilst looking for shelter, they roused the dragon Sheepstealer and saw Nettles. Robert was crushed by a falling boulder when the clansmen toppled half a mountainside down upon the column. Lord Benjicot Blackwood took charge of his host, and a third of the men had died by the time they reached the Bloody Gate.[1]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Floris
Baratheon
 
 
Unknown
first wife
 
 
 
 
Thaddeus
[Note 1]
 
Unknown
second wife
 
Jeyne
 
Donald
Tarly
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Robert
 
Son
 
Five sons
 
 
 
 
 
House Tarly.svg
 
Notes:
  1. Lord Thaddeus is known to have had at least two nephews and three cousins.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.
  2. See the Robert Rowan calculation.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand.