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.
Contents
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:
- Lord Tremond Gargalen, the Lord of Salt Shore.
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
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 38, Tyrion
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses from Dorne
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