The wedding tourney at Whitewalls[1] was a tourney held by Lord Ambrose Butterwell to celebrate his second marriage to the daughter of Lord Frey in 212 AC. It was held at Whitewalls in the riverlands and was the grounds for the Second Blackfyre Rebellion. Lord Tully, Ambrose's liege lord, was invited to the wedding tourney but declined to attend.[2]
The Joust
[edit]The format was a standard knock-out tournament. Two knights entered the lists under false names, Ser Duncan the Tall as the "Gallows Knight", a mystery knight, and Daemon II Blackfyre as "John the Fiddler", a hedge knight. The prize for the winner was supposed to have been Lord Butterwell's dragon egg, but it was stolen before it could be awarded.[2] Secondary prizes were to be thirty golden dragons for the runner-up and ten golden dragons for each knight defeated in the previous round.[2] The tourney ended prematurely when a royalist army led by Lord Bloodraven arrived to suppress the Second Blackfyre Rebellion.[2]
Ser John the Fiddler defeated Ser Kirby Pimm
Ser Franklyn Frey defeated Ser Harbert Paege (5 tilts)
Ser Glendon Flowers defeated Ser Argrave the Defiant (1 tilt)
Lord Joffrey Caswell defeated Ser Kyle the Cat of Misty Moor (1 tilt)
Ser Uthor Underleaf defeated the Gallows Knight (1 tilt)
The nephew of Lord Smallwood broke his wrist while facing an unnamed opponent[2]
Ser Eden Risley had his leg crushed beneath his horse while facing an unnamed opponent[2]- Ser Addam Frey defeated an unnamed rider[3]
- Ser Uthor Underleaf defeated Ser Addam Frey[3]
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Ser Glendon Flowers defeated Lord Alyn Cockshaw - Ser John the Fiddler defeated Ser Franklyn Frey
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Ser Glendon Flowers defeated Lord Costayne - Ser Glendon Flowers defeated Ser Mortimer Boggs
Ser Tommard Heddle defeated Ser Clarence Charlton-
Ser Uthor Underleaf defeated Ser Theomore Bulwer (5 tilts) -
Ser John the Fiddler defeated Ser Galtry the Green (10 tilts)
The tourney was then interrupted by claims that a thief had stolen the dragon egg. The next tilt would have been:
- Ser Tommard Heddle versus Ser Uthor Underleaf
A trial by combat was then held to determine the guilt or innocence of Ser Glendon Flowers in the theft of the dragon egg:
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Ser Glendon Flowers defeated the accuser, Daemon II Blackfyre (1 tilt)
Other Participants
[edit]- Ser Lucas Nayland
Known Attendees
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Lord Ambrose Butterwell- Lady Butterwell
- Lady Costayne
- Lord Costayne
- Lord Frey
- Walder Frey
- Daughters of Lord Frey
Lord Gormon Peake
Ser Maynard Plumm- Lady Risley
- Lord Risley
Lord Shawney- Lady Smallwood
- Lord Smallwood
Lord Sunderland
Prince Aegon Targaryen
Lady Vyrwel- Lord Vyrwel
Member of House Cuy (possibly)
Member of House Hasty (possibly)
Quote
[edit]Duncan: Will there be a melee here?
Kyle: A melee? At a marriage? That would be unseemly.
Uthor: There's just the joust, I fear, but besides the dragon's egg, Lord Butterwell has promised thirty golden dragons for the loser of the final tilt, and ten each for the knights defeated in the round before.[2]
Maynard: A marriage is a melee, as any married man could tell you.
Uthor: This is only a bit of jousting to celebrate His Lordship's nuptials. A tilt in the yard to mark the tilt between the sheets. Hardly worth the bother for the likes of Otho Bracken.
Kyle: I'll wager my lord of Butterwell does not take the field either. He will cheer on his champions from his lord's box in the shade.
Glendon: Then he'll see his champions fall, and in the end, he'll hand his egg to me.[2]
Some words are wind. Some words are treason. This is a traitor's tourney, ser.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Addam Frey.