Tytos Lannister's second mistress

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Tytos Lannister's second mistress was a lowborn woman, the daughter of a candlemaker.[1] Her name is unknown.

History

Lady Jeyne Marbrand, the wife of Tytos Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, died not long after giving birth to Gerion in 255 AC. Tytos took as his first mistress the wet nurse for young Gerion. The wet nurse was eventually replaced with the comely daughter of a candlemaker, however.

Tytos began seating his second mistress, the chandler's daughter, beside him in the hall and showering her with gifts and honors, even asking her views on matters of rule in the westerlands. She helped herself to the jewels and clothes of Tytos's deceased wife, Jeyne. She also began ordering about household knights, dismissed servants, and sat in attendance when Tytos was absent.[2]

In 267 AC, Lord Tytos died of a heart attack while climbing stairs to see his mistress.[3] Abandoned by her allies at court, the mistress lost all of her gifts from Tytos. Lord Tywin Lannister had her stripped naked and sent on a walk of atonement through the streets of Lannisport into exile from the docks.[4][2]

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Just prior to making her own walk of atonement, Cersei Lannister recalls hearing stories from the mouths of washerwomen and guardsmen who had witnessed the walk of her grandfather Tytos's mistress. They spoke of how the woman wept and begged, of how she desperately clung to all her garments when she was commanded to disrobe, her futile efforts to cover her breasts and her sex with her hands as she hobbled barefoot and naked through the streets to exile. Cersei thinks her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, and the High Sparrow are mistaken if they believe it will be the same with her.[4]

Recalling his father's mistress, Kevan tells himself he has no reason to feel guilty as he acted for the good of House Lannister.[2]

Quotes

Our own father was gentle and amiable, but so weak his bannermen mocked him in their cups. Some saw fit to defy him openly. Other lords borrowed our gold and never troubled to repay it. At court they japed of toothless lions. Even his mistress stole from him. A woman scarcely one step above a whore, and she helped herself to my mother's jewels![5]

Kevan Lannister to Tyrion Lannister


Cersei had been a year old when her grandfather died. The first thing her father had done on his ascension was to expel his own father's grasping, lowborn mistress from Casterly Rock. The silks and velvets Lord Tytos had lavished on her and the jewelry she had taken for herself had been stripped from her, and she had been sent forth naked to walk through the streets of Lannisport, so the west could see her for what she was.[4]

– thoughts of Cersei Lannister


Vain and proud she was, before ... so haughty you'd think she'd forgot she came from dirt. Once we got her clothes off her, though, she was just another whore.[4]

– a House Lannister guard


She grew so influential that it was said about Lannisport that any man who wished for his petition to be heard should kneel before her and speak loudly to her lap ... for Tytos Lannister's ear was between his lady's legs.[2]

– thoughts of Kevan Lannister


All the self-seekers who had named themselves her friends and cultivated her favor had abandoned her quickly enough when Tywin had her stripped naked and paraded through Lannisport to the docks, like a common whore. Though no man laid a hand on her, that walk spelled the end of her power. Surely Tywin would never have dreamed that same fate awaited his own golden daughter.[2]

– thoughts of Kevan Lannister

References

  1. The World of Ice & Fire, The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 A Dance with Dragons, Epilogue.
  3. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 3, Cersei I.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 65, Cersei II.
  5. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 66, Tyrion IX.