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Mace is a handsome and once-powerful-looking man who has since turned to fat.{{ref|ACOK|65}} He has curly brown hair and cuts his beard, which has white and grey specks in it, into a triangular shape.{{ref|ASOS|19}}{{Ref|affc|7}} He is often red-faced.{{Ref|affc|7}}{{Ref|asos|28}} [[Cersei Lannister]] thinks of Mace as the same age as her father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], although Mace is closer in age to her than to Tywin.{{ref|AFFC|7}}  
 
Mace is a handsome and once-powerful-looking man who has since turned to fat.{{ref|ACOK|65}} He has curly brown hair and cuts his beard, which has white and grey specks in it, into a triangular shape.{{ref|ASOS|19}}{{Ref|affc|7}} He is often red-faced.{{Ref|affc|7}}{{Ref|asos|28}} [[Cersei Lannister]] thinks of Mace as the same age as her father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], although Mace is closer in age to her than to Tywin.{{ref|AFFC|7}}  
  
Mace thinks himself a great warrior,{{Ref|affc|8}} although his reputation rests solely on the victory over [[Robert I Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of Ashford]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]], which had largely been won by Mace's bannerman, Lord [[Randyll Tarly]], before Mace even arrived at the battlefield,{{Ref|asos|19}}{{Ref|asos|78}} and the command Mace held during the [[Siege of Storm's End]] later that war, which ended when Mace dipped his banners to Lord [[Eddard Stark]].{{ref|asos|19}} Mace is ambitious, and wishes to see a grandchild of his on the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|asos|6}} Despite that, his mother, Lady [[Olenna Tyrell]], can easily hector him, and so influence his decisions.{{Ref|asos|32}} Mace is considered an oaf by his mother{{ref|ASOS|6}} and by Cersei Lannister,{{ref|AFFC|32}} and a fool by Prince [[Oberyn Martell]]{{ref|ASOS|38}} and Cersei.{{Ref|AFFC|7}} His favorite son is [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], the youngest,{{Ref|acok|36}} and his closest friend is Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]],{{ref|ACOK|36}} his brother-in-law. Mace has a great dislike for [[Dornishmen]], especially Prince Oberyn Martell, who accidentally crippled Mace's heir, [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]].{{Ref|asos|19}}
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Mace has a generally jovial personality.{{ref|ASOS|19}} He thinks himself a great warrior,{{Ref|affc|8}} although his reputation rests solely on the victory over [[Robert I Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of Ashford]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]], which had largely been won by Mace's bannerman, Lord [[Randyll Tarly]], before Mace even arrived at the battlefield,{{Ref|asos|19}}{{Ref|asos|78}} and the command Mace held during the [[siege of Storm's End]] later that war, which ended when Mace dipped his banners to Lord [[Eddard Stark]].{{ref|asos|19}} Mace is ambitious, wishing to see a grandchild of his on the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|asos|6}} Despite that, his mother, Lady [[Olenna Tyrell]], can easily hector him, and so influence his decisions.{{Ref|asos|32}} Mace is considered an oaf by his mother{{ref|ASOS|6}} and by Cersei Lannister,{{ref|AFFC|32}} and a fool by Prince [[Oberyn Martell]]{{ref|ASOS|38}} and Cersei.{{Ref|AFFC|7}} His favorite son is [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], the youngest,{{Ref|acok|36}} and his closest friend is Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]],{{ref|ACOK|36}} his brother-in-law. Mace has a great dislike for [[Dornishmen]], especially Prince Oberyn Martell, who accidentally crippled Mace's heir, [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]].{{Ref|asos|19}}
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Mace dresses in green velvet trimmed with sable,{{ref|ACOK|65}} as well as a gold mantle over green.{{ref|ASOS|66}}
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
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[[File:Mace Tyrell TheMico.jpg|thumb|Mace Tyrell by The Mico ©]]
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After the death of King [[Robert I Baratheon]], Mace and his brothers, uncles, and sons are ordered to come to [[King's Landing]] to swear fealty to the new king, [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]].{{ref|AGOT|57}} Instead, Mace and his sons crown Robert's youngest brother, [[Renly Baratheon]], at [[Highgarden]], where Renly also weds Mace's daughter, [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{ref|AGOT|69}}
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===''A Clash of Kings''===
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
Mace has always dreamed of his daughter being a queen. He supports [[Renly Baratheon]] and [[Loras Tyrell]] when they present a plan to crown Renly and have him wed [[Margaery Tyrell]], becoming [[Hand of the King]] to Renly. However, King Renly is [[siege of Storm's End (299)|slain at Storm's End]] before consummating the marriage. Mace responds by moving his army to [[Bitterbridge]] to plan his next move with his sons. They are joined by [[Petyr Baelish]], who offers an alliance between him, King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] and [[House Lannister]], including a marriage to King Joffrey and Renly's widow, [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]]. He joins [[Tywin Lannister]]'s army to march on and defeat [[Stannis Baratheon]] at the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]; there he commands the host's left.{{ref|ACOK|62}} His reward is a seat on the [[small council]] as [[master of ships]].{{ref|ACOK|65}}
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Mace serves Renly as [[Hand of the King]].{{ref|ACOK|Appendix}} While Renly slowly marches toward King's Landing with a huge host, Mace remains at Highgarden with ten thousand men.{{ref|ACOK|22}} Mace closes the [[roseroad]],{{ref|ASOS|60}} leading to famine and [[riot of King's Landing|rioting]] in the capital.{{ref|ACOK|41}}
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Renly is [[siege of Storm's End (299)|slain at Storm's End]] by a [[shadow assassin]] sent by [[Melisandre]];{{ref|ACOK|33}} Margaery claims the marriage was unconsummated.{{ref|AFFC|28}} Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] rides to [[Bitterbridge]] to meet Mace's angry son, Ser [[Loras Tyrell]],{{ref|ACOK|36}} and then to Highgarden to meet with Mace and his mother, Lady [[Olenna Tyrell]].{{ref|ASOS|68}} Littlefinger negotiates an alliance between Houses [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|Baratheon]], [[House Lannister|Lannister]], and [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]], including a marriage between King Joffrey and Margaery. Mace and his two younger sons, [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]] and Loras, wait with a huge host at [[Tumbler's Falls]], where they are joined by [[Tywin Lannister]], [[Mathis Rowan]], and [[Randyll Tarly]]. The combined army floats on Mace's fleet of barges along the [[Blackwater Rush]] toward the capital. They disembark half a day from King's landing, marching on to defeat [[Stannis Baratheon]].{{ref|ASOS|14}} Mace commands the host's left during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].{{ref|ACOK|62}} His reward is a seat on the [[small council]] as [[master of ships]].{{ref|ACOK|65}}
  
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Eeba-ism Olenna Redwynepufffish.jpg|"The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it?"{{ref|ASOS|6}} - art by Eeba-ism ©|thumb|300px|right]]
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[[File:Mace TyrellLukasz Jaskolski.png|thumb|Mace Tyrell by Lukasz Jaskolski © Fantasy Flight Games]]
After the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], the victorious great lords meet to divide the spoils, of which Mace is granted the lands of [[House Florent]] for his second son, [[Garlan Tyrell]].{{ref|ASOS|Appendix}}
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After the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], the victorious great lords meet to divide the spoils, of which Mace is granted the lands of [[House Florent]] for his second son, [[Garlan Tyrell]].{{ref|ASOS|Appendix}} Mace and his entourage are housed in the [[Maidenvault]].{{ref|ASOS|6}} As part of the alliance, Mace insists that his youngest son, Loras, join the Kingsguard to protect his sister, Margaery.{{ref|ASOS|68}} Mace refuses Tywin's offer to wed [[Willas Tyrell]] to the widowed Queen [[Cersei Lannister]].{{ref|ASOS|32}}
  
As a wedding gift, Mace gives King Joffrey a seven-sided chalice decorated with great houses: [[House Lannister|ruby lion]], [[House Tyrell|emerald rose]], [[House Baratheon|onyx stag]], [[House Tully|silver trout]], [[House Arryn|blue jade falcon]], [[House Martell|opal sun]], and [[House Stark|pearl direwolf]].{{ref|ASOS|59}}
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As a wedding gift, Mace gives King Joffrey a seven-sided chalice decorated with great houses: [[House Lannister|ruby lion]], [[House Tyrell|emerald rose]], [[House Baratheon|onyx stag]], [[House Tully|silver trout]], [[House Arryn|blue jade falcon]], [[House Martell|opal sun]], and [[House Stark|pearl direwolf]].{{ref|ASOS|59}} Mace removes Margaery's maiden cloak during her wedding to Joffrey. With the [[War of the Five Kings]] seemingly winding down, Mace complains there are no victories left for him.{{ref|ASOS|60}} Joffrey chokes to death during the [[Purple Wedding|wedding feast]].{{ref|ASOS|60}}
  
Mace serves as one of the three judges at the trial of [[Tyrion Lannister]] for the [[Purple Wedding|murder of Joffrey]]. He wants Tyrion dead because his daughter was drinking from the chalice that contained [[Strangler|the poison]] that killed Joffrey. Unbeknownst to Mace it was his mother [[Olenna Tyrell]] who poisoned Joffrey.
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Mace is meeting with Tywin and Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] when Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] returns to the capital.{{ref|ASOS|62}} Mace, Tywin, and Oberyn serve as judges at the trial of [[Tyrion Lannister]] for the murder of Joffrey.{{ref|ASOS|70}} Mace wants Tyrion dead because his daughter was drinking from the chalice that contained [[Strangler|the poison]] that killed Joffrey.{{ref|ASOS|66}} However, Littlefinger reveals to [[Sansa Stark]] that Mace's mother, [[Olenna Tyrell]], poisoned Joffrey.{{ref|ASOS|68}}
  
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Mace is charged by Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] with the [[Siege of Storm's End (300)|capture]] of [[Storm's End]] in order to remove him from [[King's Landing]]. He sets out with half the Tyrell strength.{{ref|affc|12}} With Mace gone Cersei plots against his daughter, [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]]. Reciprocal accusations of immorality lead to the imprisonment of both Margaery and Cersei by the [[Faith of the Seven]]. When Mace receives news of this he leaves the siege and marches his army back to King's Landing, leaving Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] to continue the siege with fewer men.
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Cersei, the [[regent]] for her second son, the boy king [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]], does not trust Mace and his friends from the [[Reach]].{{ref|AFFC|3}} Tywin Lannister had wanted Mace's uncle, [[Garth Tyrell]], to become [[master of coin]], but Cersei countermands her late father's decision and instead names Lord [[Gyles Rosby]].{{ref|AFFC|3}} Cersei refuses to name Mace as [[Hand of the King]], fearing he conspired with Tyrion to murder Tywin.{{ref|AFFC|7}} Cersei names [[Aurane Waters]] as [[lord admiral]].{{ref|AFFC|17}}
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Cersei follows Jaime's suggestion{{ref|AFFC|8}} to task Mace with capturing [[Storm's End]], which is held by Ser [[Gilbert Farring]] for Stannis.{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}} After Margaery weds Tommen in the royal sept of the [[Red Keep]], Mace sets out for Storm's End with Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] and half the Tyrell strength.{{ref|affc|12}}{{ref|AFFC|16}}
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With Lord Tyrell gone from the capital, Cersei plots against his daughter, Queen Margaery.{{ref|AFFC|17}} Accusations of immorality lead to the imprisonment of Margaery by the [[Faith of the Seven]]. When Mace receives news of this he leaves the [[siege of Storm's End (300)|siege of Storm's End]] and marches his army back to King's Landing, leaving Lord Rowan to continue the siege with fewer men. Cersei allows Aurane to launch their [[Cersei's dromonds|new dromonds]] on the Blackwater to deter Mace, but Aurane absconds for open waters with the ships.{{ref|AFFC|43}} The [[High Sparrow]] has Cersei arrested within the [[Great Sept of Baelor]].{{ref|AFFC|43}}
  
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Mace arrives at King's Landing to find that [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and her cousins have already been released. Given the weak evidence against them they were turned over to the custody of his bannerman [[Randyll Tarly]], whose army reached the city first. Their release was conditional on Tarly's holy oath to return them for trial. [[Cersei Lannister]] is stripped of the regency. Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] arrives in the city and is made [[Regent]] to King [[Tommen Baratheon]].  
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At [[Volon Therys]], [[Laswell Peake]] hints to [[Harry Strickland]] that the [[Golden Company]] still has friends in the [[Reach]], and that Mace overestimates his strength.{{ref|ADWD|24}}
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Mace arrives at King's Landing to find that [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and her cousins have already been released by the High Sparrow, given the weak evidence against them. They are turned over to the custody of Mace's bannerman, Lord [[Randyll Tarly]], whose army reached the city first from [[Maidenpool]]. The girls' release is conditional on Randyll's holy oath to return them for trial. Cersei is stripped of the regency. Her uncle, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]], arrives in the city and is made [[regent]] to King Tommen. To placate House Tyrell following Cersei's accusations, Kevan names Mace as [[Hand of the King]], Randyll Tarly as [[justiciar]], and [[Paxter Redwyne]] as [[lord admiral]].{{ref|ADWD|54}}
  
To placate House Tyrell following Cersei's accusations, Kevan makes multiple concessions to Mace. He names Mace the [[Hand of the King]], a title Mace had desired since [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin's]] death. Kevan also appoints two of Mace's bannermen, Randyll Tarly and [[Paxter Redwyne]], to the [[small council]]. Despite numerous threats facing the Iron Throne, Mace refuses to march his army from the city before his daughter is acquitted. Kevan grows increasingly resentful of Mace's apparent insatiability. Mace adds a hundred men of the Reach to the City Watch and plans a new [[Tower of the Hand]] double the size of its predecessor.
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Despite numerous threats facing the [[Iron Throne]], including [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]] and the Golden Company, Mace refuses to march his army from the city before Margaery's trial. Kevan grows increasingly resentful of Mace's apparent insatiability. Mace adds a hundred of [[House Tyrell guards|his own men]] to the [[City Watch of King's Landing]] and plans a new [[Tower of the Hand]] double the size of its predecessor,{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}} which Cersei had burned with [[wildfire]].{{ref|AFFC|12}} Mace seats himself on an oaken throne carved in the shape of a hand, and he intends to name his uncle Garth as [[lord treasurer]].{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}} Mace is unaware that [[Nymeria Sand]] is traveling from [[Dorne]] to the capital to join the [[small council]].{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}
  
 
==Quotes by Mace==
 
==Quotes by Mace==
{{quote|There is no greater pleasure than to serve the King's Grace. If I was deemed worthy to join your [[small council|royal council]], you would find none more loyal or true.{{ref|ACOK|65}}}} - Mace to [[Joffrey Baratheon]]
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{{quote|There is no greater pleasure than to serve the King's Grace. If I was deemed worthy to join your [[small council|royal council]], you would find none more loyal or true.{{ref|ACOK|65}}}} - Mace to [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]
  
  
{{Quote|Is there anything as pointless as a king without a kingdom? No, it’s plain, [[Robb Stark|the boy]] must abandon the [[riverlands]], join his forces to [[Roose Bolton]]’s once more, and throw all his strength against [[Moat Cailin]]. That is what I would do.{{ref|asos|19}}}} - Mace to [[Joffrey Baratheon]]'s small council
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{{Quote|Is there anything as pointless as a king without a kingdom? No, it's plain, [[Robb Stark|the boy]] must abandon the [[riverlands]], join his forces to [[Roose Bolton]]'s once more, and throw all his strength against [[Moat Cailin]]. That is what I would do.{{ref|asos|19}}}} - Mace to [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon's]] small council
  
  
{{Quote|What victories has he ever won that we should fear him? He could have ended [[Robert's Rebellion]] at [[Battle of the Bells|Stoney Sept]]. He failed. Just as the [[Golden Company]] has always failed. Some may rush to join them, aye. The realm is well rid of such fools.{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}}} - Mace to [[Tommen Baratheon]]'s small council regarding [[Jon Connington]]
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{{Quote|'''Mace''': Once [[Paxter Redwyne]] sweeps the [[ironmen]] from the seas, my sons will retake the [[Shield Islands|Shields]]. [[March on Winterfell|The snows]] will do for [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]], or [[Roose Bolton|Bolton]] will. As for [[Jon Connington|Connington]] ...<br>
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'''Randyll''': If it is him.<br>
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'''Mace''' ... as for Connington, what victories has he ever won that we should fear him? He could have ended [[Robert's Rebellion]] at [[Battle of the Bells|Stoney Sept]]. He failed. Just as the [[Golden Company]] has always failed. Some may rush to join them, aye. The realm is well rid of such fools.{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}}} - Mace and [[Randyll Tarly]]
  
 
==Quotes about Mace==
 
==Quotes about Mace==
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[[File:Eeba-ism Olenna Redwynepufffish.jpg|"The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it?"{{ref|ASOS|6}} - art by Eeba-ism ©|thumb|300px|right]]
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{{quote|'''Olenna''': The thought that one day he may see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the [[Summer Isles]] that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.<br>
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'''Margaery''': They call them puff fish, Grandmother.{{ref|ASOS|6}}}} - [[Olenna Tyrell]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]]
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{{Quote|He has a prodigious appetite, this one.{{ref|asos|19}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts  
 
{{Quote|He has a prodigious appetite, this one.{{ref|asos|19}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts  
  
  
 
{{Quote|[[Robb Stark]] had won more battles in a year than the Lord of [[Highgarden]] had in twenty.{{ref|asos|19}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts  
 
{{Quote|[[Robb Stark]] had won more battles in a year than the Lord of [[Highgarden]] had in twenty.{{ref|asos|19}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts  
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{{quote|The mob loved [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] so much they were even willing to love [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] again. She had belonged to [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]], the handsome young prince who had loved them so well he had come back from beyond the grave to save them. And the bounty of [[Highgarden]] had come with her, flowing up the [[roseroad]] from the south. The fools didn't seem to remember that it had been Mace Tyrell who closed the roseroad to begin with, and made the bloody famine.{{ref|ASOS|60}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts
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{{quote|You would be a fool to make Mace Tyrell your [[Hand of the King|Hand]], but a bigger fool to make him your foe.{{ref|AFFC|7}}}} - [[Kevan Lannister]] to [[Cersei Lannister]]
  
  
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Mace Tyrell
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Mace Tyrell by Amok©
Mace Tyrell by Amok©

Aliases
  • Lord Oaf
  • The Fat Flower
  • Lord Puff Fish
Titles
Allegiance House Tyrell
Born ~256 AC[1]
Spouse Alerie Hightower
Books

Played by Roger Ashton-Griffiths
TV series Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6

Mace Tyrell is head of House Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden, Defender of the Marches, High Marshal of the Reach, and Warden of the South. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones he is portrayed by Roger Ashton-Griffiths.

Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Mace Tyrell

Mace is a handsome and once-powerful-looking man who has since turned to fat.[2] He has curly brown hair and cuts his beard, which has white and grey specks in it, into a triangular shape.[3][4] He is often red-faced.[4][5] Cersei Lannister thinks of Mace as the same age as her father, Lord Tywin Lannister, although Mace is closer in age to her than to Tywin.[4]

Mace has a generally jovial personality.[3] He thinks himself a great warrior,[6] although his reputation rests solely on the victory over Robert I Baratheon in the Battle of Ashford during Robert's Rebellion, which had largely been won by Mace's bannerman, Lord Randyll Tarly, before Mace even arrived at the battlefield,[3][7] and the command Mace held during the siege of Storm's End later that war, which ended when Mace dipped his banners to Lord Eddard Stark.[3] Mace is ambitious, wishing to see a grandchild of his on the Iron Throne.[8] Despite that, his mother, Lady Olenna Tyrell, can easily hector him, and so influence his decisions.[9] Mace is considered an oaf by his mother[8] and by Cersei Lannister,[10] and a fool by Prince Oberyn Martell[11] and Cersei.[4] His favorite son is Loras, the youngest,[12] and his closest friend is Lord Paxter Redwyne,[12] his brother-in-law. Mace has a great dislike for Dornishmen, especially Prince Oberyn Martell, who accidentally crippled Mace's heir, Willas.[3]

Mace dresses in green velvet trimmed with sable,[2] as well as a gold mantle over green.[13]

History

Mace became Lord of Highgarden once his father, Lord Luthor Tyrell, rode off a cliff while hawking.[8]

During Robert's Rebellion, Mace was in command of troops from the Reach who marched against Lord Robert Baratheon of Storm's End. Mace is credited with defeating Robert in the Battle of Ashford, although the van under Lord Randyll Tarly achieved most of the victory before Mace's arrival at Ashford.[3] He then led the siege of Storm's End, which was successfully held by Robert's brother, Stannis Baratheon.[14] Mace and his closest bannerman, Lord Paxter Redwyne, surrendered to Robert's ally, Lord Eddard Stark, after the Sack of King's Landing.[15]

According to Oberyn Martell, Mace encouraged his heir, Willas Tyrell, to participate in tourneys before he was ready, leading to the accidental crippling of Willas by Oberyn.[11] Some of the Iron Throne's debts under the new king, Robert I Baratheon, are owed to Lord Mace.[16]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Mace Tyrell by The Mico ©

After the death of King Robert I Baratheon, Mace and his brothers, uncles, and sons are ordered to come to King's Landing to swear fealty to the new king, Joffrey I Baratheon.[17] Instead, Mace and his sons crown Robert's youngest brother, Renly Baratheon, at Highgarden, where Renly also weds Mace's daughter, Margaery Tyrell.[18]

A Clash of Kings

Mace serves Renly as Hand of the King.[19] While Renly slowly marches toward King's Landing with a huge host, Mace remains at Highgarden with ten thousand men.[20] Mace closes the roseroad,[21] leading to famine and rioting in the capital.[22]

Renly is slain at Storm's End by a shadow assassin sent by Melisandre;[23] Margaery claims the marriage was unconsummated.[24] Lord Petyr Baelish rides to Bitterbridge to meet Mace's angry son, Ser Loras Tyrell,[12] and then to Highgarden to meet with Mace and his mother, Lady Olenna Tyrell.[25] Littlefinger negotiates an alliance between Houses Baratheon, Lannister, and Tyrell, including a marriage between King Joffrey and Margaery. Mace and his two younger sons, Garlan and Loras, wait with a huge host at Tumbler's Falls, where they are joined by Tywin Lannister, Mathis Rowan, and Randyll Tarly. The combined army floats on Mace's fleet of barges along the Blackwater Rush toward the capital. They disembark half a day from King's landing, marching on to defeat Stannis Baratheon.[26] Mace commands the host's left during the Battle of the Blackwater.[27] His reward is a seat on the small council as master of ships.[2]

A Storm of Swords

Mace Tyrell by Lukasz Jaskolski © Fantasy Flight Games

After the Battle of the Blackwater, the victorious great lords meet to divide the spoils, of which Mace is granted the lands of House Florent for his second son, Garlan Tyrell.[28] Mace and his entourage are housed in the Maidenvault.[8] As part of the alliance, Mace insists that his youngest son, Loras, join the Kingsguard to protect his sister, Margaery.[25] Mace refuses Tywin's offer to wed Willas Tyrell to the widowed Queen Cersei Lannister.[9]

As a wedding gift, Mace gives King Joffrey a seven-sided chalice decorated with great houses: ruby lion, emerald rose, onyx stag, silver trout, blue jade falcon, opal sun, and pearl direwolf.[29] Mace removes Margaery's maiden cloak during her wedding to Joffrey. With the War of the Five Kings seemingly winding down, Mace complains there are no victories left for him.[21] Joffrey chokes to death during the wedding feast.[21]

Mace is meeting with Tywin and Prince Oberyn Martell when Ser Jaime Lannister returns to the capital.[30] Mace, Tywin, and Oberyn serve as judges at the trial of Tyrion Lannister for the murder of Joffrey.[31] Mace wants Tyrion dead because his daughter was drinking from the chalice that contained the poison that killed Joffrey.[13] However, Littlefinger reveals to Sansa Stark that Mace's mother, Olenna Tyrell, poisoned Joffrey.[25]

A Feast for Crows

Cersei, the regent for her second son, the boy king Tommen I Baratheon, does not trust Mace and his friends from the Reach.[32] Tywin Lannister had wanted Mace's uncle, Garth Tyrell, to become master of coin, but Cersei countermands her late father's decision and instead names Lord Gyles Rosby.[32] Cersei refuses to name Mace as Hand of the King, fearing he conspired with Tyrion to murder Tywin.[4] Cersei names Aurane Waters as lord admiral.[33]

Cersei follows Jaime's suggestion[6] to task Mace with capturing Storm's End, which is held by Ser Gilbert Farring for Stannis.[34] After Margaery weds Tommen in the royal sept of the Red Keep, Mace sets out for Storm's End with Lord Mathis Rowan and half the Tyrell strength.[35][36]

With Lord Tyrell gone from the capital, Cersei plots against his daughter, Queen Margaery.[33] Accusations of immorality lead to the imprisonment of Margaery by the Faith of the Seven. When Mace receives news of this he leaves the siege of Storm's End and marches his army back to King's Landing, leaving Lord Rowan to continue the siege with fewer men. Cersei allows Aurane to launch their new dromonds on the Blackwater to deter Mace, but Aurane absconds for open waters with the ships.[37] The High Sparrow has Cersei arrested within the Great Sept of Baelor.[37]

A Dance with Dragons

At Volon Therys, Laswell Peake hints to Harry Strickland that the Golden Company still has friends in the Reach, and that Mace overestimates his strength.[38]

Mace arrives at King's Landing to find that Margaery and her cousins have already been released by the High Sparrow, given the weak evidence against them. They are turned over to the custody of Mace's bannerman, Lord Randyll Tarly, whose army reached the city first from Maidenpool. The girls' release is conditional on Randyll's holy oath to return them for trial. Cersei is stripped of the regency. Her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, arrives in the city and is made regent to King Tommen. To placate House Tyrell following Cersei's accusations, Kevan names Mace as Hand of the King, Randyll Tarly as justiciar, and Paxter Redwyne as lord admiral.[39]

Despite numerous threats facing the Iron Throne, including Aegon Targaryen and the Golden Company, Mace refuses to march his army from the city before Margaery's trial. Kevan grows increasingly resentful of Mace's apparent insatiability. Mace adds a hundred of his own men to the City Watch of King's Landing and plans a new Tower of the Hand double the size of its predecessor,[40] which Cersei had burned with wildfire.[35] Mace seats himself on an oaken throne carved in the shape of a hand, and he intends to name his uncle Garth as lord treasurer.[40] Mace is unaware that Nymeria Sand is traveling from Dorne to the capital to join the small council.[40]

Quotes by Mace

There is no greater pleasure than to serve the King's Grace. If I was deemed worthy to join your royal council, you would find none more loyal or true.[2]

- Mace to Joffrey I Baratheon


Is there anything as pointless as a king without a kingdom? No, it's plain, the boy must abandon the riverlands, join his forces to Roose Bolton's once more, and throw all his strength against Moat Cailin. That is what I would do.[3]

- Mace to Joffrey I Baratheon's small council


Mace: Once Paxter Redwyne sweeps the ironmen from the seas, my sons will retake the Shields. The snows will do for Stannis, or Bolton will. As for Connington ...

Randyll: If it is him.

Mace ... as for Connington, what victories has he ever won that we should fear him? He could have ended Robert's Rebellion at Stoney Sept. He failed. Just as the Golden Company has always failed. Some may rush to join them, aye. The realm is well rid of such fools.[40]

- Mace and Randyll Tarly

Quotes about Mace

"The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the Iron Throne makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it?"[8] - art by Eeba-ism ©

Olenna: The thought that one day he may see his grandson with his arse on the Iron Throne makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.
Margaery: They call them puff fish, Grandmother.[8]

- Olenna Tyrell and Margaery Tyrell


He has a prodigious appetite, this one.[3]

- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts


Robb Stark had won more battles in a year than the Lord of Highgarden had in twenty.[3]

- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts


The mob loved Margaery so much they were even willing to love Joffrey again. She had belonged to Renly, the handsome young prince who had loved them so well he had come back from beyond the grave to save them. And the bounty of Highgarden had come with her, flowing up the roseroad from the south. The fools didn't seem to remember that it had been Mace Tyrell who closed the roseroad to begin with, and made the bloody famine.[21]

- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts


You would be a fool to make Mace Tyrell your Hand, but a bigger fool to make him your foe.[4]

- Kevan Lannister to Cersei Lannister


His sigil ought to be a fat man sitting on his arse.[41]

- Cersei Lannister's thoughts


The more I give him, the more he wants.[40]

- Kevan Lannister's thoughts

Family

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References and Notes

  1. See the Mace Tyrell calculation.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
  5. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
  6. 6.0 6.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
  7. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 78, Samwell V.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
  9. 9.0 9.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 32, Tyrion IV.
  10. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 32, Cersei VII.
  11. 11.0 11.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 38, Tyrion V.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 36, Tyrion VIII.
  13. 13.0 13.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 66, Tyrion IX.
  14. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 27, Eddard VI.
  15. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 39, Eddard X.
  16. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 20, Eddard IV.
  17. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
  18. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 69, Tyrion IX.
  19. A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
  20. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
  22. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 41, Tyrion IX.
  23. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
  24. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 68, Sansa VI.
  26. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
  27. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 62, Sansa VII.
  28. A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
  29. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
  30. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 62, Jaime VII.
  31. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 70, Tyrion X.
  32. 32.0 32.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 3, Cersei I.
  33. 33.0 33.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
  34. A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
  35. 35.0 35.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.
  36. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 16, Jaime II.
  37. 37.0 37.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 43, Cersei X.
  38. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
  39. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 54, Cersei I.
  40. 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 40.4 A Dance with Dragons, Epilogue.
  41. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei V.