House Gargalen

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House Gargalen of Salt Shore
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Coat of arms Or, a cockatrice segreant gules, in its beak a sepent sable
Seat Salt Shore
Head Lord Tremond Gargalen
Region Dorne
Title Lord of Salt Shore
Overlord House Martell

House Gargalen of Salt Shore is a major Dornish noble house. Their seat is placed on the southern coast of Dorne.

Their blazon is a red cockatrice with black snake in beak on gold.[1][2] Their words have not appeared on the books.

The Gargalen House at the end of the third century

The known Gargalens during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:

References in the books

A Song of Ice and Fire

  • Lord Tremond Gargalen were among the Dornish nobles that accompanied Oberyn Martell to King's Landing.
  • Oberyn explains to Tyrion that Lord Gargalen once said that he hoped to die with sword in hand, and he replied he would sooner prefer to die with a breast in his.
  • During the Dornish visit to King's Landing, a fight at a Flea Bottom pot-shop left one Tyrell man-at-arms dead and two Gargalens scalded.
  • Doran Martell squired for Lord Gargalen in his youth. When he was nine, he was at Salt Shore where Lord Gargalen gave him the news that he had a sister.

References and Notes

  1. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 38, Tyrion
  2. The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses from Dorne