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House Durrandon

2019-10-17T14:39:07Z

Robin Waters:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Durrandon
| image = [[File:House Baratheon.svg|250px|center]]
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| Coat_of_arms = A black crowned stag, on a gold field (''Or, a stag salient, crowned, sable'')
| Words = ''Ours is the Fury''
| Seat = [[Storm's End]]
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[Stormlands]] [[Riverlands]] (~400BC - ~100 BC)
| Title = [[Storm King]]
| Heir = Extinct
| Overlord =
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch = [[House Baratheon]] (female line) [[House Bolling]] (possibly) [[House Wensington]] (possibly)
| Founded = [[Age of Heroes]]
| Founder = [[Durran Godsgrief]]
| Died_out = [[Years before Aegon's Conquest|~2 BC/1 BC]]
}}

'''House Durrandon''' was the house of the [[Storm King]]s from the [[stormlands]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Their seat was [[Storm's End]]; an ancient castle raised by [[Durran Godsgrief]], the founder of their line. The Durrandon sigil was a crowned black stag on a field of gold.{{Ref|AGOT|4}} Their words were ''Ours is the Fury''. Both sigil and words were adopted by [[House Baratheon]], who descend from House Durrandon through the female line, in [[Aegon's Conquest]].

==History==
The line of the Storm Kings dates back to the [[Age of Heroes]] when their kingdom was founded by King [[Durran Godsgrief]], a legendary hero. The Storm Kings once ruled much of the eastern half of [[Westeros]], an area reaching from [[Cape Wrath]] to the [[Bay of Crabs]]. Their dominion was protected from [[Dorne]] and the [[Kingdom of the Reach]] by the [[Dornish Marches]], and they conquered the [[riverlands]] from [[House Teague]].

For several centuries before [[Aegon's Conquest]], however, their power had dwindled. They had the [[House Gardener|Kings of the Reach]] at their west, who nibbled at their domains, and [[Dornishmen]] at their south. [[Harren the Black]] had taken over the [[Trident]], and those lands above the [[Blackwater Rush]]. King [[Argilac Durrandon]] had managed to stop this decline of land for a while. By the time of the Conquest, however, Argilac had grown old and his prowess at arms had faded.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

During [[Aegon's Conquest|the Conquest]], [[Orys Baratheon]], one of [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]]'s fiercest generals, and rumored to be his bastard brother, slew Argilac the Arrogant, last of the Storm Kings, and married his daughter, [[Argella Durrandon|Argella]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Orys adopted the sigil and words of his wife's ancestral line, so creating [[House Baratheon]] of [[Storm's End]], with his descendants having the blood of the Durrandons flowing in their veins.{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}

==Historical Members==
* King [[Durran]], called "''Godsgrief''", a legendary hero of the Dawn Age, who built [[Storm's End]] and founded House Durrandon.
** King [[Durran II Durrandon]], called "''the Devout''", his son who gave the [[Rainwood]] back to the [[Children of the Forest]] after his father had taken it.
* King [[Durran Durrandon (Bronze-Axe)|Durran Durrandon]], called "''Bronze-Axe''", who finally seized the Rainwood for good and all.
* King [[Durran Durrandon (the Dour)|Durran Durrandon]], called "''the Dour''", who, as either Durran V of VI, slew [[Lun the Last]], King of the Giants.
* King [[Durran Durrandon (the Ravenfriend)|Durran Durrandon]], called "''the Ravenfriend''", who saw the founding of the castle [[Stonedance]] by [[Maldon Massey]].
* King [[Durran Durrandon (the Young)|Durran Durrandon]], called "''the Young''", also called "''the Butcher Boy''", who turned back a Dornish invasion.
** [[Erich Durrandon (Kin-Killer)|Erich Durrandon]], called "''Kin-Killer''", who may have been his brother.
* King [[Durran Durrandon (the Fair)|Durran Durrandon]], called "''the Fair''", who took the daughter of [[Edwyn Evenstar]] to wife and so brought [[Tarth]] into his realm.
** King [[Erich Durrandon (the Sailmaker)|Erich III Durrandon]], called "''the Sailmaker''", his grandson, who claimed [[Estermont]] and the isles further south.
* King [[Durran X Durrandon]], who extended his reign to the shores of the [[Blackwater Rush]].
** King [[Monfryd I Durrandon]], called "''the Mighty''", his son, who conquered [[Duskendale]] and [[Maidenpool]].
*** King [[Durran XI Durrandon]], called "''the Dim''", his son, who lost his father's gains and more besides.
**** King [[Barron Durrandon]], called "''the Beautiful''", who lost even more domains his grandfather had earned.
* King [[Durwald I Durrandon]], called "''the Fat''", whose long reign saw many revolts and whose writ did not extend beyond the walls of Storm's End.
* King [[Morden II Durrandon]], who was displaced by his bastard half-brother and confined to a tower-cell.
** King [[Ronard Storm]], called "''the Bastard''", who usurped his half-brother's rule and ruled for stable thirty years.
* King [[Erich VII Durrandon]], called "''the Unready''", who didn't pay much heed to the news of the [[Andal Invasion]], while he was fighting other wars.
** King [[Qarlton II Durrandon]], called "''the Conqueror''", his grandson, who was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle.
*** King [[Qarlton III Durrandon]], his successor, who continually fought the Andals throughtout his reign.
**** King [[Monfryd V Durrandon]], his son, who defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood]] of the Andals at the [[Battle of Bronzegate]] at the cost of his own life.
* King [[Baldric I Durrandon]], called "''the Cunning''", who played the Andals against each other.
* King [[Durran XXI Durrandon]], who sought out the Children of the Forest to form the [[Weirwood Alliance]] against the Andals.
* King [[Cleoden I Durrandon]], who made an Alliance with three Dornish kings against the Andals.
* King [[Maldon IV Durrandon]], who took an Andal maiden as his wife.
** King [[Durran XXIV Durrandon]], called "''Half-blood''", his son, who continued his father's policy of intermarriage with the Andals.
* King [[Ormund III Durrandon]], who took the [[Faith of the Seven]] as his own religion and cast aside worship of the [[Old Gods]].
* King [[Durran the Third]], who invaded [[Dorne]] twice, and was defeated by [[Nymeria]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}
* King [[Arlan I Durrandon]], called "''the Avenger''", who expanded his kingdom as far as the Blackwater Rush and the headwaters of the Mander.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}
** King [[Arlan III Durrandon]], who conquered the [[riverlands]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Riverlands}} Great-grandson of Arlan I.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}
* King [[Arrec Durrandon]], who lost the riverlands to [[House Hoare]].
** King [[Arlan V Durrandon]], eldest son and heir of Arrec.
*** King [[Argilac Durrandon]], called "''the Arrogant''", last of the Durrandon Storm Kings. Killed by Orys Baratheon during the [[Last Storm]].
**** Princess/Queen [[Argella Durrandon]], his daughter and heir. Married to [[Orys Baratheon]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==References==
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Battle of Six Kings

2019-10-17T14:35:41Z

Robin Waters:

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| date =
| place = The [[Teats|Mother's Teats]] in the [[riverlands]]
| result = [[House Durrandon|Durrandon]] victory Extinction of [[House Teague]] Annexation of the Riverlands into the domain of the [[Storm Kings]]
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*[[Poor Fellows]]
| commander1 = [[Arlan III Durrandon]] [[Roderick Blackwood]]† [[Elston Tully]]†
| commander2 = [[Humfrey I Teague]]†
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| strength2 = unknown
| casualties1 = [[Roderick Blackwood]]† [[Elston Tully]]†
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The '''Battle of Six Kings''' was a battle fought near the [[Teats]] in the [[riverlands]] prior to the [[War of Conquest]]. It led to the riverlands being added to the domains of the [[Storm Kings]] from the [[stormlands]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

==History==
When [[Humfrey I Teague]], the pious [[King of the Rivers and the Hills]], began to repress worship of the [[old gods]], Lord [[Roderick Blackwood]] of [[Raventree Hall]] rose in rebellion, followed by [[House Vance of Atranta|House Vance]] of [[Atranta]] and [[House Tully]] of [[Riverrun]]. Supported by the [[Faith Militant]], Humfrey's loyalists were on the verge of defeating the rebels. Roderick sought help from the [[Storm King]] [[Arlan III Durrandon]], with whom he was related by marriage. Arlan desired to restore the riverlands to the Blackwoods, who had ruled as kings in the [[Age of Heroes]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

Leading a great host of [[stormlanders]] across the [[Blackwater Rush]], Arlan defeated the loyalists in several battles and was able to relieve the siege of Raventree. The bloody final battle took place in an afternoon between the [[Teats|Mother's Teats]], during which the stormlanders extinguished the line of [[House Teague]]. Humfrey died first, followed by his sons [[Humfrey II Teague|Humfrey II]], [[Hollis Teague|Hollis]], and [[Tyler Teague|Tyler]], and finally his brother, [[Damon Teague|Damon]], all of whom briefly ruled as a river king. Other casualties were Roderick Blackwood, [[Elston Tully]], and Lords [[House Bracken|Bracken]], [[House Darry|Darry]], [[House Smallwood|Smallwood]], [[House Vance of Atranta|Vance of Atranta]], and [[House Vance of Wayfarer's Rest|Vance of Wayfarer's Rest]], although it is unknown
if they died in the final battle or earlier in the campaign.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

The battle became known as the Battle of Six Kings, for the five kings from House Teague and Arlan the Storm King. Roderick Blackwood's heir was a boy of only eight, and Arlan distrusted Roderick's brothers. He considered crowning Roderick's eldest child, [[Shiera Blackwood]], and having her rule with his own son from [[House Durrandon]], but the river lords refused to be ruled by a woman. Instead, Arlan chose to add the riverlands to the realm of the Storm Kings.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

==References==
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[[Category:House Bracken battles|Six Kings]]
[[Category:House Darry battles|Six Kings]]
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[[Category:Riverlands]]
[[Category:Stormlands]]

[[ru:Битва Шести королей]]
[[fr:Bataille des Six Rois]]

Mern III Gardener

2019-10-17T14:31:17Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Mern III Gardener''', called '''the Madling''', was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Before the [[Andals]] arrived in the [[Reach]], Mern showered gold and honors on a [[woods witch]] who boasted she could raise armies of the dead to fight off the invaders.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

==References==
{{References}}

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[[Category:House Gardener]]
[[Category:First Men|Gardener, Mern III]]
[[Category:Nobles|Gardener, Mern III]]
[[Category:Monarchs|Gardener, Mern III]]
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[[es:Mern III Gardener]]
[[fr:Mern III Jardinier]]

Mern II Gardener

2019-10-17T14:29:52Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Mern II Gardener''', called '''Mern the Mason''', was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Before the [[Andals]] arrived in the [[Reach]], Mern built a new curtain wall about [[Highgarden]] and commanded his lords bannermen to see to their own defenses.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

==References==
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[[es:Mern II Gardener]]
[[fr:Mern II Jardinier]]

Gwayne IV Gardener

2019-10-17T14:28:21Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Gwayne IV Gardener''', called '''the [[Old gods|Gods]]-fearing''', was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Generations before the [[Andals]] arrived in the [[Reach]], he sent out his warriors in search for the [[Children of the Forest]] in the hope that their [[greenseer|greenseers]] and [[magic]] could halt the [[Andal Invasion|invaders]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==References==
{{References}}

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[[Category:House Gardener]]
[[Category:Nobles|Gardener, Gwayne IV]]
[[Category:Monarchs|Gardener, Gwayne IV]]
[[Category:First Men|Gardener, Gwayne IV]]
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[[fr:Gwayne IV Jardinier]]
[[es:Gwayne IV Gardener]]

Gwayne V Gardener

2019-10-17T14:27:30Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Gwayne V Gardener''' was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Along with his [[Garth IX Gardener|grandfather]] and [[Merle I Gardener|father]], he is remembered as one of the [[Three Sage Kings]] who dealt with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invasion]] of the [[Reach]] with a policy of accord and assimilation rather then armed resistance.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Character==
Gwayne was wise and cunning.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==History==
Whereas his father converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Like his father, he took an Andal maiden to wife as a means of binding the bride's father to the realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} He also took Andals into his service as retainers and household knights, among them Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], whose prowess at arms was such that he was made the king's champion and [[sworn shield]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

Gwayne bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andal kings and other Andal adventurers descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Like his grandfather and father, Gwayne V likewise sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying him and his bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles and holdfasts with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|They gave us seven gods, we gave them dirt and daughters, and our sons and grandsons shall be as brothers.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}|Gwayne V Gardener on the Andals}}

==Family==
{{Garth IX Gardener tree}}

==References==
{{References}}

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[[Category:House Gardener]]
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[[Category:Nobles|Gardener, Gwayne V]]
[[Category:Knights|Gardener, Gwayne V]]
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[[Category:First Men|Gardener, Gwayne V]]
[[Category:Andals|Gardener, Gwayne V]]

[[es:Gwayne V Gardener]]
[[fr:Gwayne V Jardinier]]

Merle I Gardener

2019-10-17T14:24:11Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Merle I Gardener''', called '''Merle the Meek''', was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Along with his [[Garth IX Gardener|father]] and [[Gwayne V Gardener|son]], he is remembered as one of the [[Three Sage Kings]] who dealt with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invasion]] of the [[Reach]] with a policy of accord and assimilation rather then armed resistance.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

==Character==
Merle was wise and cunning.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==History==
After his father had brought a [[septon]] to court and made him one of his counselors and built the first sept at [[Highgarden]], Merle converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

Merle also took an Andal maiden to wife as a means of binding the bride's father to the realm, as well as other Andals into his service as [[knight|knights]] and retainers, and bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andal kings and other Andal adventurers descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

He also sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying his bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles and holdfasts with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

==Family==
{{Garth IX Gardener tree}}

==References==
{{References}}

[[Category:Kings of the Reach]]
[[Category:House Gardener]]
[[Category:Nobles|Gardener, Merle I]]
[[Category:Monarchs|Gardener, Merle I]]
[[Category:Characters from the Reach|Gardener, Merle I]]
[[Category:First Men|Gardener, Merle I]]

[[es:Merle I Gardener]]
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Garth IX Gardener

2019-10-17T14:19:17Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Garth IX Gardener''' was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Along with his [[Merle I Gardener|son]] and [[Gwayne V Gardener|grandson]], he is remembered as one of the [[Three Sage Kings]] who dealt with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invasion]] of the [[Reach]] with a policy of accord and assimilation rather then armed resistance.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Character==
Garth was wise and cunning.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==History==
Instead of fighting off the Andals, Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils. The first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign, although he continued to worship the [[old gods]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

He took Andals into his service as household [[knights]] and retainers, and bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andal kings and other Andal adventurers descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

He also sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying him and his bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles and holdfasts with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flock when the pack comes ravening.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}|Garth IX Gardener}}

==Family==
{{Garth IX Gardener tree}}

==References==
{{References}}

[[Category:Kings of the Reach]]
[[Category:House Gardener]]
[[Category:Nobles|Gardener, Garth IX]]
[[Category:Monarchs|Gardener, Garth IX]]
[[Category:Characters from the Reach|Gardener, Garth IX]]
[[Category:First Men|Gardener, Garth IX]]

[[es:Garth IX Gardener]]
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Coming of the Andals

2019-10-17T14:17:02Z

Robin Waters:

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| result = Andals occupy most land south of the [[Neck]]. [[First Men]] hold on to the [[north]] Ending of the [[Pact]] Disappearance of the [[children of the forest]]

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The '''coming of the Andals''',{{ref|ASOS|45}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} '''crossing of the Andals''',{{ref|AGOT|60}}{{ref|ASOS|70}} or '''arrival of the Andals'''{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} refers to the migration of [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,{{ref|AGOT|40}}<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago,{{ref|ADWD|48}} and some [[maesters]] like [[Denestan]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed by Andal invaders and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. The takeover was sometimes peaceful, however, with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

==History==
[[War of the First Men and the children of the forest|Generational warfare]] had occurred in [[Westeros]] between the [[First Men]] and the [[children of the forest]], but the [[Pact]] between the two peoples led to four thousand years of peace and worship of the [[old gods]] by the First Men.{{ref|AGOT|66}} The [[Andals]], the first new people of Westeros since the Pact, came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in western [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals were promised kingdoms in a foreign land by the Seven, which led to the Andals sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Valyrian Freehold]],{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} which conquered with [[dragon]]s and forced subjugated peoples into [[slavery]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Valyria's Children}} The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}}

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} The legend of [[Alyssa Arryn]] and [[Alyssa's Tears]] is said to be between six thousand{{ref|AGOT|40}} and two thousand years old.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle. Screenshot from ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' Blu-ray.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]]; the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain; and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]].

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd]], whom the [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at [[House Mudd]]'s seat, [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven Andal kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}} His heir, [[Tristifer V Mudd|Tristifer V]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals had mixed results when they invaded [[Crackclaw Point]], which is now part of the [[crownlands]]. While the native Crackclaws had success fighting in their valleys and bogs, eventually, the Andals learned that what they could not conquer with swords they could through marriage.{{ref|AFFC|20}}

During their conquest the Andals burned [[weirwood]] groves and slew the [[children of the forest]] when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} The Andal [[Erreg|Erreg the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the children of the forest of the riverlands, killing the children and their First Men allies and cutting down High Heart's grove of weirwood trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals failed to conquer the [[Isle of Faces]], leading to conjecture that some children of the forest survived on the Isle with the aid of the [[green men]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
[[File:Andal Invasion.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Andals crossing the [[narrow sea]]. Screenshot from ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' Blu-ray.]]

When the Andals first began crossing the [[narrow sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was the [[Storm King]] from [[House Durrandon]] of [[Storm's End]]. He took little interest in the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time, and he died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

To prevent the Andals from conquering all of the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords of [[Cape Wrath]] into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[battle at Black Bog|Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox the Corpse-Maker]] in a [[battle on the river Slayne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of Storm's End. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], for instance, married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
When the Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]], they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]], [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], was supported by [[House Bolton]] when the Andal warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] was slain in the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. Theon then sailed east, raided [[Andalos]], and displayed the heads of his Andal victims along the shore of the north.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} King [[Sherrit]] is said to have called down a curse upon Andals while at the [[Nightfort]], which is also where the legendary [[Rat Cook]] served "bacon-and-prince" pie to an Andal king.{{ref|ASOS|56}}

Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[House Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most First Men kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[Redwyne fleet|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. The [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] prepared the defenses of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]]. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought help from the [[children of the forest]], while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] focused on fortification. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]: [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]]. Rather than resist, they granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andals. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and built the first [[sept]] at Highgarden. Merle I, a convert to the [[Faith of the Seven]], promoted the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith and the first to be [[knight]]ed. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all three kings accepted Andal knights and retainers into their service. For instance, Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and [[sworn shield]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]] set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade, and Lord [[Damon Hightower|Damon]] was the first Hightower to accept the Faith. After Damon's premature death, his son, the young Lord [[Triston Hightower|Triston]], was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]], who eventually became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston honored Robeson by building the [[Starry Sept]], while Triston's son, Lord [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}}

The Gardeners encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. The Andals and First Men of the Reach became closely integrated, and most of the newcomers aided the Gardeners against future Andal invaders. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that "seldom has a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed."{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
The Andals turned their attention to the [[Iron Islands]] a thousand years after their landing on the [[Fingers]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the Iron Islands in waves, often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}

[[Rognar II Greyiron]], [[King of the Iron Islands]], was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became king by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}} The [[House Hoare|Hoare dynasty]] were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the priests of the [[Drowned God]], for marrying and allying with Andals, tolerating the Faith and promoting trade instead of reaving.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Black Blood}} The new religion never became popular in the Iron Islands and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the native [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men of [[Westeros]]. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used [[runes]] for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel.{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} [[Knight]]hood and chivalry spread through most of Westeros, especially in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]]. The [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations, aside from [[beyond the Wall]].{{ref|AGOT|66}}

During and following the Andals' arrival, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. [[Dorne]] remained a peninsula of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

There is little left of Andal culture in [[Essos]].<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1250/ Yet More Questions], July 22, 2001</ref>

==See also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

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Garth IX Gardener

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'''Garth IX Gardener''' was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Along with his [[Merle I Gardener|son]] and [[Gwayne V Gardener|grandson]], he is remembered as one of the [[Three Sage Kings]] who dealt with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invasion]] of the [[Reach]] with a policy of accord and assimilation rather then armed resistance.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==History==
Instead of fighting off the Andals, Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils. The first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign, although he continued to worship the [[old gods]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

He took Andals into his service as household [[knights]] and retainers, and bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andal kings and other Andal adventurers descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

He also sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying him and his bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles and holdfasts with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flock when the pack comes ravening.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}|Garth}}

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House Manderly

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'''House Manderly of White Harbor''' is a noble family in the [[north]] whose seat is the [[New Castle]] in the city of [[White Harbor]]. They are among the most powerful and loyal vassals of [[House Stark]] as well as the richest northern family due to their control of the only city in the region. Unlike most other northern houses,{{ref|AGOT|53}} the Manderlys follow the [[Faith of the Seven]] instead of the [[old gods]], as the family emigrated from the [[Reach]] after the [[Andal invasion]].

The Manderlys' blazon is a white merman with dark green hair, beard and tail, carrying a black trident, over a blue-green field.{{ref|AGOT|55}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref> Their words do not appear in the books, neither has [[George R. R. Martin]] submitted them in semi-canon material. [[House Manderly guards|Manderly guards]] wield tridents instead of spears.{{ref|ADWD|19}}

The Lord of White Harbor, [[Wyman Manderly]], influences all lands and houses east of the mouth of the [[White Knife]], including Houses [[House Locke|Locke]], [[House Woolfield|Woolfield]], and [[House Flint of Widow's Watch|Flint of Widow's Watch]].{{ref|ADWD|29}} The Manderlys' dominion includes the [[Sheepshead Hills]]{{ref|AWOIAF| Sheepshead Hills}} and the [[Broken Branch]],{{ref|AWOIAF| Broken Branch}} as well as the allegiance of [[Ramsgate]].{{ref|AWOIAF| Ramsgate}} Their bannermen includes a dozen petty lords and a hundred [[landed knight]]s.{{Ref|ADWD|29}}

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
The Manderlys are an ancient line who once lived along the banks of the mighty river [[Mander]] in the [[Kingdom of the Reach]], and some claim the river was named after them.{{ref|AWOIAF| Mander}} A noble house of great lords descended from the [[First Men]], they held the castle of [[Dunstonbury]] as their seat and had a fierce rivalry with [[House Peake]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

During the reign of the [[House Gardener|Gardener kings]] in the Reach, King [[Gwayne III Gardener]] persuaded Lords Manderly and Peake to accept his judgment on their quarrel and do fealty for their lands, without any bloodshed.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Like other houses of the Reach, the Manderlys presumably converted from the [[old gods]] of the First Men to the [[Faith of the Seven]] after the Gardeners welcomed [[Andals]] into their kingdom.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Near the end of the long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener]], a problem arose with the succession as the elderly and senile Garth had sired no sons and only daughters, one of whom had married Lord Manderly, and another to Lord Peake. Both lords were determined that their own wife should succeed to the throne, and the rivalry between them was marked by betrayal, conspiracy and murder, and finally escalated into open war with other lords joining the cause on both sides. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated the Peakes and Manderlys. Osmund then placed a distant cousin of the late Garth X on the throne as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Exile and White Harbor===
At some point, House Manderly overreached itself, and was driven from the Reach by the [[House Gardener|Gardener Kings]].{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|AWOIAF| White Harbor}} According to Maester [[Yandel]], the exile of House Manderly is credited to Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who feared the Manderlys' growing influence and power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderlys' seat of Dunstonbury.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys were left sore, friendless and in peril of their lives. They fled north, and were welcomed by the [[House Stark|Starks]] of [[Winterfell]] as their own bannermen.{{Ref|ADWD|19}} The Starks awarded the [[Wolf's Den]] to the Manderlys and tasked them with defending the [[White Knife]] in return for swearing an oath that they would always be loyal subjects of House Stark. This history instilled the Manderlys with great loyalty to their new liege lords.{{ref|ADWD|19}}

When exactly House Manderly came north is unknown. In {{Date|211}}, Lady [[Rohanne Webber]] dated the flight of the Manderlys as having occured "a thousand years" ago.{{ref|tss}} Lord [[Godric Borrell]] defines the time period to "no more than nine hundred years" before {{Date|300}}.{{Ref|ADWD|9}} However, both [[Wylla Manderly]], as well as [[maester]] [[Yandel]] date the arrival of the Manderlys in the north back a bit further, "a thousand years before [[Aegon's Conquest|the Conquest]]"{{Ref|ADWD|19}} and "some thousand years before the Conquest",{{Ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} respectively. A semi-canon source lists "a thousand years before the Conquest" as well.{{Ref|AWOIAF| White Harbor}} These accounts thus place the arrival of the Manderlys in the north between 1000 BC and 600 BC.

House Manderly built the city of [[White Harbor]] with the wealth they had brought from the Reach.{{Ref|ADWD|19}} They further developed it over the following centuries.{{ref|ADWD|19}} It is the smallest of the five cities of [[Westeros]], and is the main northern port for commerce and naval transport.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} Until the construction of [[King's Landing]] during [[Aegon's Conquest]] (by then still known as the [[Aegonfort]], White Harbor was also the newest city of the Seven Kingdoms.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The [[New Castle]], built to replace the aging Wolf's Den, resembles their previous castle Dunstonbury in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys are one of the few great houses of the north to follow the [[Faith of the Seven]] instead of the [[old gods]] and thus have a strong tradition of [[knight]]hood.{{ref|AGOT|53}}

===Targaryen Era===
In the aftermath of [[Aegon's Conquest]], Ser [[Warrick Manderly]] and Queen [[Visenya Targaryen]] suppressed the [[Sistermen's Rebellion]]. Lord [[Steffon Sunderland]] sent a son to be fostered with the Manderlys.{{ref|FAB|Reign of the Dragon - The Wars of King Aegon I}}

[[Mara Manderly]] was a companion to Queen [[Alysanne Targaryen]] at [[Dragonstone]] in {{date|55}}. Her father, Lord [[Theomore Manderly]], hosted Alysanne in {{Date|58}} when the queen visited [[White Harbor]] as part of her [[royal progress]], with Mara's sister, [[Jessamyn Manderly|Jessamyn]], serving as her cupbearer.{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}} Theomore was to marry Princess [[Viserra Targaryen]] in {{date|86}},{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}} but the high-spirited girl died after falling from a horse while racing drunkenly through the streets of King's Landing.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys I}} House Manderly supported Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Aemon)|Rhaenys Targaryen]] in the [[Great Council of 101 AC]] at [[Harrenhal]].

During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Prince [[Jacaerys Velaryon]] traveled to White Harbor and [[Winterfell]] and convinced the north to join the [[blacks]]. After agreeing that his youngest daughter should wed Prince [[Joffrey Velaryon]] once fighting ended, Lord [[Desmond Manderly]] sent warriors led by his sons, Ser [[Medrick Manderly|Medrick]] and Ser [[Torrhen Manderly|Torrhen]], to support [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]].{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son}} Torrhen served as one of the regents of King [[Aegon III Targaryen]] after the war, resigning in {{Date|132}} after the deaths of his father and brother from [[Winter Fever]].{{ref|FAB|Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand}} When Aegon came of age in {{Date|136}}, he ended [[Regency of Aegon III|the regency]] and dismissed Lord Manderly, his [[Hand of the King]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

Lady [[Jeyne Manderly]] wed [[Rickon Stark (son of Cregan)|Rickon Stark]], eldest son and supposed heir to Lord [[Cregan Stark]] and gave him two daughters, [[Serena Stark|Serena]] and [[Sansa Stark (daughter of Rickon)|Sansa]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}} Lady [[Myriame Manderly]] married [[Rodwell Stark]] and became Lady of Winterfell upon her husband's accession.{{ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}}

===Robert's Rebellion===
When Lord [[Eddard Stark]] called the northern banners to join [[Robert's Rebellion]] against King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] led the Manderlys south. Wyman fought at the [[Battle of the Trident]], rewarding his retainer Ser [[Bartimus]] for saving his life by making him castellan of the Wolf's Den, now White Harbor's prison.{{ref|ADWD|29}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
After learning of the [[catspaw|assassination attempt]] on his son [[Bran Stark|Bran's]] life, Lord [[Eddard Stark]] instructs his wife [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]] to have Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] strengthen [[White Harbor]].{{ref|AGOT|20}}

After leaving the [[Vale of Arryn]], Catelyn meets the Manderlys at White Harbor. Because of Eddard's arrest in [[King's Landing]], a Manderly army, led by Ser [[Wylis Manderly|Wylis]] and Ser [[Wendel Manderly|Wendel]], joins [[Robb Stark]] at [[Moat Cailin]] when marching south against the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. Their force consists of near fifteen hundred men, including some twenty knights with their squires, 200 mounted lances, swordsmen and freeriders, and the remaining foot armed with spears, pikes and tridents. Wyman remains at White Harbor to watch over the city.{{ref|AGOT|55}}

When the northern army splits at the [[Twins]], Wendel accompanies Robb to free [[Riverrun]], and although he is already a mature man, he is counted among the thirty young sons of lords that form [[Robb's personal guard]]. Meanwhile, Wylis leads the White Harbor infantry with Lord [[Roose Bolton]] on his march south, and is captured at the [[battle on the Green Fork]].

===''A Clash of Kings''===
While at [[Winterfell]] for the [[harvest feast]], Lord Wyman meets with [[Bran Stark]], Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]], and Maester [[Luwin]]. He offers to [[Old Mint|mint]] coins for Robb, informs them of White Harbor's defenses, and proposes to build the king a new warfleet of galleys, with Rodrik saying he will inform Robb of the proposal. Later during the feast, Rodrik commands [[Hother Umber|Hother]] and [[Mors Umber]] to work with Wyman in building longships to combat [[wildlings]].{{ref|ACOK|16}}

Lady [[Donella Hornwood]] (née Manderly) is widowed by the death of Lord [[Halys Hornwood]] on the Green Fork. During the harvest feast, Lord Wyman advances his claim for the [[House Hornwood]] lands, going on to offer to wed his cousin. However, Donella is forcefully wed when she returns to her lands and is locked away to die by [[Ramsay Snow]], the Bastard of [[House Bolton|Bolton]]. In response, Wyman seizes [[Hornwood]] to prevent Ramsay from occupying it,{{ref|ACOK|28}} and Manderly knights attack Bolton men in the [[Hornwood (forest)|Hornwood forests]]. News reaches Winterfell via Rodrik, but he does not have the manpower to stop them.{{ref|ACOK|35}}

In the south, Wendel accompanies Lady [[Catelyn Stark]] to negotiate with Kings [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] and [[Stannis Baratheon]], bearing the Stark banner at the parley before [[siege of Storm's End (299)|Storm's End]]. Meanwhile, Wylis has been held prisoner at [[Harrenhal]], where he frequents the kitchens. Wylis is one of the northmen [[Tyrion Lannister]] is willing to trade for his cousins captured at the [[battle in the Whispering Wood]].{{ref|ACOK|25}} Wylis is ultimately freed when Roose Bolton [[Fall of Harrenhal|captures Harrenhal]].

After [[Theon Greyjoy]] [[Capture of Winterfell|seizes Winterfell]], he receives reports that Lord Wyman sent a dozen barges up the [[White Knife]] packed with knights and siege engines to help recapture the Starks' seat.{{ref|ACOK|56}} During his parley with Rodrik outside the gates of Winterfell, Theon observes a line of mounted Manderly knights. Rodrik's forces are betrayed by [[House Bolton]] in the [[battle at Winterfell]], however.{{ref|ACOK|66}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
As Robb marches to the [[Twins]] to attend the wedding of [[Edmure Tully]], Ser Wendel Manderly is placed in charge of protecting his baggage train. Ser Wylis commands Lord [[Roose Bolton]]'s rearguard as they march to the same destination. Wylis is captured for a second time when [[Gregor Clegane]]'s men [[fighting at the fords of the Trident|attack]] the army as they cross the [[ruby ford]] of the [[Trident]], with Lord Bolton unable to prevent the Mountain from destroying his rearguard.{{ref|ASOS|49}} Wylis is returned to captivity at Harrenhal.{{ref|AFFC|27}} At the Twins, Wendel dies at the [[Red Wedding]], with an arrow going into his open mouth.{{ref|ASOS|51}}

Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] sends a raven to White Harbor in a plea for help from the Manderlys to defend [[Castle Black]] from the [[Attack on Castle Black|wildlings]].{{Ref|asos|55}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
According to Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], the Manderlys are on the verge of allying themselves with the [[House Bolton|Boltons]], with Lord Wyman agreeing to marry both of his granddaughters to members of [[House Frey]] and open his port to Lannister ships. The [[Iron Throne]] receives reports that Wyman executed Davos when he attempted to negotiate an alliance with Stannis; Cersei responds by allowing the release of Wyman's surviving son, Wylis Manderly. At Harrenhal, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] informs a grateful Wylis he will have an escort to [[Maidenpool]] and be put on a ship home to [[White Harbor]].

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Wylla_and_wynafryd_by_eluas.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Manderly sisters, granddaughters of Lord Wyman]]
When [[Davos Seaworth]] arrives in White Harbor hoping to ally Lord Wyman to King [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]], he sees that twenty-three war galleys have been built without the Lannisters' knowledge. White Harbor is awash with refugees, including those from the Hornwood lands.{{ref|ADWD|15}} Despite the objections of his granddaughter, [[Wylla Manderly|Wylla]], Wyman denounces Davos in front of three Frey envoys—[[Jared Frey|Jared]], [[Rhaegar Frey|Rhaegar]], and [[Symond Frey|Symond]]—indicating he is ready to make peace with the Iron Throne and pay allegiance to [[Roose Bolton]], the new [[Warden of the North]], who requires that Wyman give up his claim to the Hornwood lands.{{ref|ADWD|19}} Wyman fakes Davos's death, however, killing a criminal in his place and altering the body so it resembles the Onion Knight. After Wylis returns safely to White Harbor, Wyman has [[Robett Glover]] release Davos from the [[Wolf's Den]]. Lord Manderly sends Davos on a mission to find [[Rickon Stark]], known to be alive thanks to [[Wex Pyke]], in a secret bid to unite the northern lords in resistance to Houses Bolton and Frey.{{ref|ADWD|29}}

Keeping up his ruse of loyalty, Lord Wyman arrives at Winterfell with three hundred men{{ref|ADWD|46}} to answer Roose Bolton's call to arms, and to attend [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]]'s wedding. At the wedding, he provides some of the food, including [[Frey Pies/Theories|three pies]] implied to be made from the Frey envoys who disappeared after leaving White Harbor.{{ref|ADWD|32}}{{ref|ADWD|37}}

While quartered in Winterfell, there is tension within the garrison between the Manderlys and Freys. When Wyman japes about the death of [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|Little Walder Frey]], it boils over into bloodshed, with Wyman wounded and several men-at-arms dead on both sides. Lord Bolton, hoping to reduce tensions and hungry mouths within the castle, sends the White Harbor men to engage Stannis's army, which is slowly [[march on Winterfell|approaching Winterfell]].{{ref|ADWD|51}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
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Having escaped from [[Winterfell]] and been brought to the [[crofters' village]], [[Theon Greyjoy]] tells [[Stannis Baratheon]] that [[Roose Bolton]] has sent the [[House Frey|Freys]] and [[House Manderly|Manderlys]] to confront him. Stannis is angered at Wyman's support of the [[House Bolton|Boltons]], but Theon does not believe Wyman would coordinate with the Freys against Stannis.<ref name=TheonI>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref>

==House Manderly at the end of the third century==
The known Manderlys during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord [[Wyman Manderly]], Lord of White Harbor.
** Ser [[Wylis Manderly]], his firstborn son and heir to White Harbor. Married to [[Leona Woolfield]].
*** [[Wynafryd Manderly]], Wylis's young daughter.
*** [[Wylla Manderly]], Wylis's young daughter.
** Ser {[[Wendel Manderly]]}, his second son. Slain at the [[Red Wedding]].
** Ser [[Marlon Manderly]], his cousin and commander of the garrison at White Harbor.
** Lady {[[Donella Hornwood|Donella Manderly]]}, his cousin, married to Lord {[[Halys Hornwood]]}. Starved to death by [[Ramsay Snow]].

{{Manderly tree}}

===Household===
* Maester [[Theomore Lannister|Theomore]], counselor, tutor, healer. Born a [[House Lannister of Lannisport|Lannister of Lannisport]].
* Ser [[Bartimus]], an old knight, one-legged, one-eyed, and oft drunk, [[castellan]] of the [[Wolf's Den]].
* [[Garth (Wolf's Den)|Garth]], a gaoler and headsman.
* [[Therry]], a young turnkey.
* [[Wex Pyke]], once squire to [[Theon Greyjoy]], mute. Lord Wyman's captive/guest.

==Historical Members==
* Unnamed Lord Manderly, who quarreled with a Lord [[House Peake|Peake]] during the reign of King [[Gwayne III Gardener]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}
* Unnamed Lord Manderly, married to a daughter of King [[Garth X Gardener]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}
* Ser [[Warrick Manderly]], who defeated the [[Sistermen's Rebellion]].
* Lord [[Theomore Manderly]], who hosted Queen [[Alysanne Targaryen]] in [[White Harbor]] during her royal progress of {{Date|58}}.{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}
** At least three sons.{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}
** At least two daughters, including [[Jessamyn Manderly|Jessamyn]] and [[Mara Manderly|Mara]].{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}
** Several nieces and nephews.{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}
** Lord [[Desmond Manderly]], Lord Theomore's great-grandson, who ruled during the [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son}}
*** Ser [[Medrick Manderly]], a famous [[knight]] and son of Desmond who fought for the [[blacks]] during the Dance.{{ref|tpatq}}
*** Lord [[Torrhen Manderly]], a knight and son of Desmond who also fought for the blacks during the Dance. Torrhen served as [[regent]] for the young King [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon III]] and later gave up his position in {{Date|132}} following the death of his father and brother.{{ref|tpatq}} Later [[Hand of the King]] until Aegon III came of age.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}
**** Daughters.{{ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}
**** Cousins of Lord Torrhen who accompanied him to [[King's Landing]] for the [[Great Council]] in {{Date|136}}.{{Ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}
*** Daughters.{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son}}
* Lady [[Jeyne Manderly]], wife of [[Rickon Stark (son of Cregan)|Rickon Stark]], the eldest son and heir of Lord [[Cregan Stark]] by his first marriage to [[Arra Norrey]]. They had two daughters, [[Serena Stark|Serena]] and [[Sansa Stark (daughter of Rickon)|Sansa Stark]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}}
* Lady [[Myriame Manderly]], wife of Lord [[Rodwell Stark]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|A thousand years before [[Aegon's Conquest|the Conquest]], a promise was made, and oaths were sworn in the [[Wolf's Den]] before the [[old gods]] and [[Faith of the Seven|the new]]. When we were sore beset and friendless, hounded from our homes and in peril of our lives, the wolves took us in and nourished us and protected us against our enemies. The city is built upon the land they gave us. In return we swore that we should always be their men. [[House Stark|Stark]] men!{{Ref|ADWD|19}}|[[Wylla Manderly]] to the [[Merman's Court]]}}

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Garth IX Gardener

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'''Garth IX Gardener''' was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Along with his [[Merle I Gardener|son]] and [[Gwayne V Gardener|grandson]], he is remembered as one of the [[Three Sage Kings]] who dealt with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invasion]] of the [[Reach]] with a policy of accord and assimilation rather then armed resistance.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==History==
Instead of fighting off the Andals, Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils. The first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign, although he continued to worship the [[old gods]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

He took Andals into his service as household [[knights]] and retainers, and bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andal kings and other Andal adventurers descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

He also sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying him and his bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles and holdfasts with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flock when the pack comes ravening.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}|King Garth IX Gardener}}

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Gwayne IV Gardener

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Robin Waters:

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'''Gwayne IV Gardener''', called '''the [[Old gods|Gods]]-fearing''', was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]]. Generations before the [[Andals]] arrived in the [[Reach]], he sent out his warriors in search for the [[Children of the Forest]] in the hope that their [[greenseer|greenseers]] and [[magic]] could halt the [[Andal Invasion|invaders]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

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House Gardener

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'''House Gardener of Highgarden''' is the extinct house of the old and famed [[King of the Reach|Kings]] of the [[Reach]]. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled, through war and peace and the assimilation with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invaders]], down the generations, until the last Gardener king [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his kin were killed at the [[Field of Fire]] in the [[War of Conquest]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The kings of House Gardener initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], focused on [[Highgarden]] and the [[Mander]] river,{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}} but over time they used their claim of descending from Garth the Gardener to claim supremacy over neighboring kings and [[lord]]s.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their seat was Highgarden where many Gardener kings (and one queen) sat upon a living throne called the [[Oakenseat]] that grew from an oak that the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]] himself was reputedly said to have planted, until the throne's destruction during the reign of [[Garth X Gardener]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Kings of House Gardener wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their blazon was a green hand over a white field,{{ref|tss}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> which inspired the chivalric [[Order of the Green Hand]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

==History==
===Age of Heroes===
The Gardeners claimed descent from the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]], who, according to legends from the Reach, is said to have been the High King of the [[First Men]] and common ancestor of numerous noble houses from the Reach.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} His firstborn child was [[Garth the Gardener]], the legendary first King of the Reach who reigned in the [[Age of Heroes]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} According to legend, Garth the Gardener made his home on the hill atop the [[Mander]] river that in time would become known as Highgarden, and wore a crown of vines and flowers. From his loins sprang House Gardener, whose kings would rule the Reach for many thousands of years.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

The Gardener kings initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], although over time they expanded their territory. The western marches between [[Horn Hill]] and [[Nightsong]] were eventually added to the Gardeners' domain. [[Old Oak]], [[Red Lake]], and [[Goldengrove]] joined the realm with pacts of friendship and mutual defense with [[Garth III Gardener|Garth III]] (the Great).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} [[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]] brought the [[Arbor]] into the kingdom and made [[House Redwyne]] his vassals after his cousin, the last [[King of the Arbor]], was lost at sea.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Not long after, King [[Garland II Gardener|Garland II]] (the Bridegroom) brought [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and their domains into the realm by wedding his daughter to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]] and putting aside his own [[Polygamy|wives]] to marry Lymond's daughter.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne III]] (the Fat) resolved the quarrel between Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] and accepted fealty for their lands without bloodshed. [[John II Gardener|John II]] (the Tall) received homage from lords and petty kings as he sailed his barge to the headwaters of the Mander.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Legendary Warrior kings from this time include [[Garth V Gardener|Garth V]] (Hammer of the Dornish), [[Gwayne I Gardener|Gwayne I]] (the Gallant), [[Gyles I Gardener|Gyles I]] (the Woe), and [[Gordan I Gardener|Gordan I]] (Grey-Eyes).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} The Gardener kings often warred with the [[ironborn]], sometimes in alliance with the [[Kings of the Rock]] and the Lords of [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} At least six Gardener kings died in battle against the ironborn, including [[Gareth II Gardener|Gareth II]] (the Grim), [[Garth VI Gardener|Garth VI]] (the Morningstar), and [[Gyles II Gardener|Gyles II]], the last of whom was tortured to death by [[Joron I Blacktyde]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}

===The Golden Reign===
The greatest of the Gardeners was King [[Garth VII Gardener]], known as the Goldenhand, for his deeds both in war and in peace.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Ascending to the Oakenseat at age twelve, Garth ruled for eighty-one years, of which less than ten were spent at war. In the few times Garth Goldenhand did go to war he utterly trounced his adversaries. As a boy he defeated an invasion of [[Dornishmen]] by King [[Ferris Fowler]], then drove the ironborn from the [[Shield Islands]] and fortified them with men from the Reach. Garth VII divided an alliance between the King of the Rock and [[Storm King]], defeating both in the [[Battle of Three Armies]], and dictated the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Garth's greatest accomplishment was giving his people three-quarters of a century of golden peace, bringing an unprecedented prosperity. Garth's rule became known as the [[Golden Reign]], and was when the Reach truly flowered.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

===Arrival of the Andals===
:{{See also|Three Sage Kings}}

The Kings of the Reach observed the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], [[stormlands]], and the [[riverlands]] from afar. Instead of allying with the invaders against other [[First Men]], they took precautions against possible Andal invasions. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] (the Gods-fearing) sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] (the Mason) constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to do the same. [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] (the Madling) supported a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however. When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]. {{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings who followed one another on the Oakenseat — [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]] (the Meek), and his grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]] — were a trio of cunning and wise kings who used a policy of accord and assimilation with the Andals rather than armed resistance. Although he continued to worship the [[old gods]], Garth IX made a [[septon]] part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at Highgarden was built during his reign. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and become its patron, helping to fund and build septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener King born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings took Andals into their service as knights and retainers. Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Merle I and Gwayne V married Andal maidens to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} The three kings also bequeathed lands, wives, and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty; numerous houses of the Reach trace their ancestry back to these Andal adventurers.

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying them and their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry. Most new lords remained loyal and helped the Gardeners against internal and external threats. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Andal Kings===
The centuries that followed the assimilation with the Andals were less peaceful, and the Gardener kings (and one queen) varied in wisdom and strength. The Kings of the Reach constantly warred against and allied with the [[Kings of the Rock]], the [[Storm Kings]], the many kings from Dorne, and the [[Kings of the Rivers and the Hills]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as [[regent]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

King [[Gyles III Gardener]] conquered from the Storm King all the lands north of the [[rainwood]] save for [[Storm's End]]. While he was away, the Reach was attacked by [[Lancel IV Lannister]], forcing Gyles to deal with the [[westermen]].{{ref|TSS}} A new broader war followed, involving three Dornish kings and two river kings, and ended with Gyles III dead of a [[bloody flux]] and his conquests abandoned.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]], known as Garth Greybeard, witnessed the nadir of Gardener power. The elderly and senile Garth had sired only daughters, who were married to the rival Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]]. Once the rival lords began warring, the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], [[House Durrandon|Durrandons]], and Dornish attack the kingdom. A Dornish king sacked Highgarden, killed Garth Greybeard, and destroyed the [[Oakenseat]]. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and the Manderlys, reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden, and supported [[Mern VI Gardener]], a second cousin of Garth, as king. Although a man of only modest gifts, Mern VI was able to rebuild Highgarden and restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener, relying on the counsel of his stewards: Osmund Tyrell, Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell|Robert]] — who was allowed to marry his youngest daughter in gratitude — and Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent]]. Mern's son [[Garth XI Gardener|Garth XI]] (the Painter) retaliated against the Dornish by invading the [[Red Mountains]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Approximately a thousand years ago Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drove [[House Manderly]] from the Reach at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderlys' growing power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys fled from the [[Mander]] for the [[White Knife]] in the [[north]].{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{ref|ADWD|19}} King [[Greydon Gardener]] attempted an invasion of Dorne, but was thrown back by [[Nymeria]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} King [[Garse VII Gardener|Garse VII]] was slain by the Storm King, [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]] at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===War of Conquest and Extinction===
[[File:Field of Fire.jpg|thumb|300px|End of House Gardener on the [[Field of Fire]]]]
House Gardener died out in the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[War of Conquest]] almost three hundred years before ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. When [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] invaded [[Westeros]], King [[Mern IX Gardener]] joined with [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], to put an end to [[House Targaryen]] at what would become known as the [[Field of Fire]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern commanded the center of the combined army and led the charge against Aegon's forces. The host of [[House Targaryen]] eventually broke, but by then Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], had taken to the air on their [[dragons]]. The dragons killed four thousand men of the combined army, among them Mern and his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{Ref|AGOT|13}} One nephew of King Mern survived, but he died of his burns three days later, ending House Gardener.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern's High Steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered [[Highgarden]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen]], pledging fealty. Aegon named Harlen the [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] and the Lord of Highgarden, and granted Harlen dominion over the Reach in exchange for his submission to the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===Legacy===
Many of the noble houses from the Reach trace their descent back to [[Garth Greenhand]], a fact that is often used to boast of a better claim than the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] as the rightful rulers of the Reach, as the Tyrells are descendants of the Gardeners only through the female line. Houses with Garth Greenhand as an ancestor are the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], and many others.{{Ref|ASOS|61}}

Golden [[currency]] from the time of the Gardeners is still in use, albeit rare.{{Ref|AFFC|7}}{{Ref|AFFC|16}} The coins are named ''hands'', each worth roughly half a gold dragon,{{Ref|AFFC|16}} and feature the hand sigil of House Gardener on one side and the likeness of the current king on the other side. They are known to have been made with [[Garth XII Gardener|Garth XII]]'s effigy.{{Ref|AFFC|7}}

==Historical Members==
No precise lineage or chronology of House Gardner is known. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled as [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] until the last Gardener king, [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]], rode out to meet [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], upon the [[Field of Fire]].

*King [[Garth the Gardener]], mythical founder of House Gardener and the first King of the Reach, first son of [[Garth Greenhand]].
*King [[Garth III Gardener]], called "''the Great''", who expanded the borders of the Reach northward.
*King [[Garth V Gardener]], called "''Hammer of the Dornish''".
*King [[Gwayne I Gardener]], called "''the Gallant''".
*King [[Gyles I Gardener]], called "''the Woe''", who reportedly sold three quarters of [[Oldtown]]'s population into slavery.
*King [[Meryn III Gardener]], who brought the [[Arbor]] into the realm.
*King [[Garland II Gardener]], called "''the Bridegroom''", who brought Oldtown into the realm.
**a daughter married to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]].
*King [[Gwayne III Gardener]], called "''the Fat''".
*King [[John II Gardener]], called "''the Tall''".
*King [[Gareth II Gardener]], called "''the Grim''", died in battle against the [[ironborn]].
*King [[Garth VI Gardener]], called "''the Morningstar''", died in battle against the ironborn.
*King [[Gyles II Gardener]], who was tortured and then cut into small pieces to bait his ironborn captor's hooks.
*King [[Gordan I Gardener]], called "''Grey-Eyes''".
*King [[Garth VII Gardener]], called "''the Goldenhand''" or "''Garth Goldenhand''", greatest of all the Gardener Kings. His rule is known as the [[Golden Reign]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Lannister]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Durrandon]].
**a great-grandson, his successor.
*King [[Gwayne IV Gardener]], called "''the Gods-fearing''", who sought out the [[children of the forest]] to repel the [[Andal]] invaders.
*King [[Mern II Gardener]], called "''the Mason''", built a new curtain wall about [[Highgarden]].
*King [[Mern III Gardener]], called "''the Madling''".
*King [[Garth IX Gardener]], first of the [[Three Sage Kings]].
**King [[Merle I Gardener]], called "''the Meek''", his son and successor. First Gardener king to worship the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Second of the Three Sage Kings.
***King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], his grandson, Merle I's son and successor. The first Gardener king born into the Faith of the Seven, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. Last of the Three Sage Kings.
*King [[Garland VI Gardener]].
*King [[Gyles III Gardener]], under whose rule [[Highgarden]] reached the apex of its power.
*King [[Garth X Gardener]], called "''Garth Greybeard''", under his long reign House Gardener reached the nadir of its power.
**a daughter married to [[House Manderly|Lord Manderly]].
**a daughter married to [[House Peake|Lord Peake]].
**King [[Mern VI Gardener]], his second cousin and successor.
***King [[Garth XI Gardener]], called "''the Painter''", his son and successor.
***his youngest daughter, married to Ser [[Robert Tyrell]].
*King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who had House Manderly exiled from the Reach.
**[[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne Gardener]], his son, married to Lord [[Lorimar Peake]]'s daughter.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
*King [[Greydon Gardener]].
*King [[Garth XII Gardener]].
*King [[Garse VII Gardener]], slain at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].
*King [[Mern IX Gardener]], last of the Gardener Kings. Killed at the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his kin.
**Prince [[Edmund Gardener]], his son and heir.
**Prince [[Gawen Gardener]], his son.
**two other sons.
**two young grandsons.
**a nephew, last of the Gardeners.
** Brothers, cousins and other relatives of King Mern

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King of the Reach

2019-08-14T16:29:49Z

Robin Waters:

[[File:Magali VilleneuGarth VII Gardener.jpg|thumb|[[Garth VII Gardener|Garth the Goldenhand]], greatest of the Kings of the Reach]].
'''King of the Reach''', or in at least one instance, '''Queen of the Reach''', was the title of the ruler of the '''Kingdom of the Reach''' from [[Garth the Gardener]] to [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]]. The Kings of the Reach were members of [[House Gardener]], and their consorts were known as Queens of All the Reach.{{Ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}} The land of the [[Reach]] is now part of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] ruled from the [[Iron Throne]].

==History==
The mythical [[Garth Greenhand]] is said to have been the High King who lead the [[First Men]] across the [[Arm of Dorne]]. His firstborn son was [[Garth the Gardener]], the legendary first King of the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} The kings from [[House Gardener]] initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], focused on [[Highgarden]] and the [[Mander]],{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach}} but over time they used their claim of descending from Garth the Gardener to claim supremacy over neighboring kings and [[lord]]s.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

King [[Garth III Gardener|Garth the Great]] allied with [[Old Oak]], [[Red Lake]], and [[Goldengrove]], expanding the kingdom's borders north. The kingdom of the Reach expanded southward with the addition of the [[Arbor]] during the reign of King [[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]], and soon after [[Garland II Gardener|Garland the Bridegroom]] arranged marriages with [[Oldtown]] to join their realms. King [[Garth VII Gardener|Garth the Goldenhand]] conquered the Misty Islands from the [[ironborn]], fortifying them as the [[Shield Islands]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} The Kings of the Reach also acquired the western marches near [[Horn Hill]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach}}

The kings and at least one queen ruled from the [[Oakenseat]] in Highgarden until the throne's destruction during the reign of [[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} The Gardeners often warred with the [[Kings of the Rock]] from [[House Lannister]], the [[Storm King]]s from [[House Durrandon]], [[river kings]] from the [[Trident]], [[King of the Iron Islands|ironborn kings]] from the [[Iron Islands]], and [[Dornishmen]].

The Gardeners initially fortified their kingdom during the [[coming of the Andals]] to [[Westeros]], but they eventually welcomed the newcomers to their realm. [[House Tyrell]], a house of [[Andal]] origin, became the stewards of the Kings of the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Gardeners ruled as kings until [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]] rode out to meet [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sister, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen]], during [[Aegon's Conquest]], and the Gardeners met their destruction upon the [[Field of Fire]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} House Tyrell has since ruled from Highgarden as [[Lords Paramount of the Reach]] for the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: House Tyrell}}

==Known Kings of the Reach==
No precise lineage or chronology of House Gardener is known, but the individuals listed below are believed to be in rough chronological order.

*[[Garth the Gardener]], mythical founder of House Gardener and the first King of the Reach, son of [[Garth Greenhand]].
*[[Garth III Gardener|Garth III]], called the Great.
*[[Garth V Gardener|Garth V]], called Hammer of the Dornish.
*[[Gwayne I Gardener|Gwayne I]], called the Gallant.
*[[Gyles I Gardener|Gyles I]], called the Woe.
*[[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]]
*[[Garland II Gardener|Garland II]], called the Bridegroom.
*[[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne III]], called the Fat.
*[[John II Gardener|John II]], called the Tall.
*[[Gareth II Gardener|Gareth II]], called the Grim.
*[[Garth VI Gardener|Garth VI]], called the Morningstar.
*[[Gyles II Gardener|Gyles II]]
*[[Gordan I Gardener|Gordan I]], called Grey-Eyes.
*[[Garth VII Gardener|Garth VII]], called the Goldenhand or Garth Goldenhand, greatest of all the Gardener kings.
*[[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]], called the Gods-fearing.
*[[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]], called the Mason.
*[[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]], called the Madling.
*[[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], first of the [[Three Sage Kings]].
*[[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], called the Meek, Garth IX's son and successor. Second of the Three Sage Kings.
*[[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]], Merle I's son and successor. Last of the Three Sage Kings.
*[[Garland VI Gardener|Garland VI]]
*[[Gyles III Gardener|Gyles III]]
*[[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]], called Garth Greybeard.
*[[Mern VI Gardener|Mern VI]], Garth X's second cousin and successor.
*[[Garth XI Gardener|Garth XI]], called Garth the Painter, Mern VI's son and successor.
*[[Perceon III Gardener|Perceon III]]
*[[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne]], whose numeric is unknown.
*[[Greydon Gardener|Greydon]], whose numeric is unknown.
*[[Garth XII Gardener|Garth XII]]
*[[Garse VII Gardener|Garse VII]]
*[[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]], last of the Gardener Kings. Killed at the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his kin.

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Field of Fire

2018-12-28T14:44:03Z

Robin Waters:

{{Template:Battlebox
| image = [[File:Fields of Fire2.jpg|350px]]
| caption = Men burned alive by the [[dragons]], supplemental art from ''[[Game of Thrones]]''
| battle_name = Field of Fire
| conflict = [[Aegon's Conquest]]
| date = Around 2 BC
| place = northern [[Reach]]
| result = [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] victory
*Extinction of [[House Gardener]]
| combatant1 = [[House Targaryen]]
| combatant2 = [[Kingdom of the Rock]] [[Kingdom of the Reach]]
*[[Order of the Green Hand]]
| commander1 = [[Aegon I Targaryen]] Lord [[Jon Mooton]]
| commander2 = [[Loren I Lannister]] [[Mern IX Gardener]]† [[Edmund Gardener]]† Lord [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]
| strength1 = 11,000 and 3 [[dragon]]s
| strength2 = 55,000
| casualties1 = Fewer than 100 men [[Visenya Targaryen]] injured{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}
| casualties2 = 4,000 men burned alive 1,000 from sword and spears 30,000 surrendered [[Mern IX Gardener]]† [[Edmund Gardener]]† [[Gawen Gardener]]† Lord [[Armen Peake]]†
}}

The '''Field of Fire''' was a major battle during [[Aegon I Targaryen]]'s [[Aegon's Conquest|war of conquest]]. According to semi-canon sources the field is located in the northern part of the [[Reach]].<ref>''[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]]'', Guardians of Order</ref>

==Prelude==
[[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]], Lord of [[Dragonstone]], landed at what would become [[King's Landing]] and began subjugating the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. After the submissions of [[burning of Harrenhal|Harrenhal]], [[Crackclaw Point]], and [[Last Storm|Storm's End]], Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], gathered at [[Stoney Sept]] with their [[dragon]]s. Most of [[House Targaryen]]'s soldiers were conscripts from the recently-liberated [[riverlands]]. Lord [[Jon Mooton]] of [[Maidenpool]], one of the first lords to come over to the Targaryens, was given command of the Targaryen army.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|AGOT|13}}

[[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], joined forces with [[Mern IX Gardener]], [[King of the Reach]], at [[Goldengrove]] in an attempt to throw the Targaryen invaders back. Between the two kings they had roughly 55,000 men, roughly five times as many as the Targaryens, including 5,000 mounted [[knight]]s. Marching beside King Mern were the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Peake|Peakes]], and the [[House Redwyne|Redwynes]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

Having brought half as many more men to the battle than Loren, Mern commanded the center and his son [[Edmund Gardener|Edmund]] led the vanguard. Loren led the right wing while Lord [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]] had the left.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Lord [[Manfred Hightower (Aegon's Conquest)|Manfred Hightower]], the Lord of the [[Hightower]], heeded the advice of the [[High Septon (Aegon's Conquest)|High Septon]] and did not join his liege lord, King Mern, on the march and instead kept his forces back at [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Battle==
The two armies met in the plains south of the [[Blackwater]], near the present [[Goldroad]]. While the Two Kings hoped to flank Aegon and then smash Aegon's center with knights, the Targaryens established themselves in a defensive crescent.

The allies' charge began to break the Targaryen spear lines, but Aegon and his sisters took to the air on their dragons, [[Balerion]], [[Meraxes]], and [[Vhagar]]. The dragons began to set the dry field aflame on all sides, especially upwind of the [[House Gardener|Gardener]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]] armies. Lord Mooten's Targaryen forces were safely upwind, allowing them to finish off allied soldiers who emerged from the flame. King Loren rode through the flame to safety when he realized Aegon would be triumphant.

The dragons killed 4,000 men of the combined Lannister and Gardener army, among them King Mern and all of his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{ref|AGOT|13}} The knights of the [[Order of the Green Hand]] were wiped out. Lord [[Armen Peake]] and his sons perished.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}} Another thousand men perished from sword and spears and arrows while 10,000 men suffered burns. Of the Targaryens less than 100 were lost while Visenya took an arrow to the shoulder. One nephew of King Mern survived the battle, but he died of his burns three days later. When he died, House Gardener died with him.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The battle, the only time in [[Aegon's Conquest]] in which all three Targaryen dragons took to the battlefield at the same time, become known afterward as the Field of Fire.{{ref|agot|13}}

==Aftermath==
The swords of the defeated were sent downriver on the [[Blackwater Rush]] to the [[Aegonfort]], where they would form part of [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror's]] [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|AGOT|43}} [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], was detained the following day. Loren the Last gave up his claim to kingship and became [[Warden of the West]] under the rule of [[House Targaryen]].{{ref|agot|13}}

Aegon marched for the extinct Gardeners' seat of [[Highgarden]], whose steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered without conflict. Aegon rewarded him by giving [[House Tyrell]] dominion over the [[Reach]] and raising him to Lord of Highgarden, [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]], and [[Warden of the South]].{{ref|agot|Appendix}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

After the surrender of Highgarden, Aegon marched north to the [[Red Fork]] of the [[Trident]] to face 30,000 [[north]]men marching south under the leadership of [[Torrhen Stark]], [[King in the North]]. Aegon and his sisters gathered an army of 45,000 from the [[riverlands]], [[stormlands]], Reach, and [[westerlands]] in response. Having learned of the [[burning of Harrenhal]] and the Field of Fire, Torrhen [[Inn of the Kneeling Man|knelt]] in submission to Aegon rather than give combat, becoming Aegon's [[Warden of the North]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|It was the only time that [[Vhagar]], [[Meraxes]], and [[Balerion]] were all unleashed at once. The singers called it the Field of Fire.{{Ref|agot|13}}}} - thoughts of [[Tyrion Lannister]]

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House Peake

2018-12-28T14:25:41Z

Robin Waters:

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'''House Peake of Starpike''' is a noble house from [[Starpike]] in the [[Reach]]. They blazon their arms with three black castles on orange.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> The three black castles on their arms symbolize the three castles that House Peake once owned: [[Starpike]], [[Dunstonbury]], and [[Whitegrove]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} Their motto has yet to appear.

The Peakes are [[Marcher lords]] from the [[Dornish Marches]].<ref>According to the [http://www.historyofwesteros.com/concarolinas-westerlands-reading/ ConCarolinas westerlands reading], King [[Maekar I Targaryen]] was slain at Starpike, while ''[[The World of Ice & Fire]]'' states Maekar was killed fighting a rebellious lord on the Dornish Marches.</ref>

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
House Peake is an ancient house of [[First Men]] origin. According to tales from the Reach, the Peakes, [[House Florent|Florents]], and [[House Ball|Balls]] are each descended from one of the three husbands of [[Florys the Fox]], a daughter of [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

Famous Peakes of legend include Ser Urrathon the Shieldsmasher, Lord Meryn the Scribe, Lady Yrma of the Golden Bowl, Ser Barquen the Besieger, Lord Eddison the Elder, Lord Eddison the Younger, and Lord Emerick the Avenger.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}

The Peakes were historical rivals with [[House Manderly]]. During the reign of the [[House Gardener|Gardener kings]] in the Reach, King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne the Fat]] persuaded Lords Manderly and Peake to accept his judgment on their quarrel and do fealty for their lands, without any bloodshed.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Near the end of the long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth Greybeard]], a problem arose with the succession as Garth had sired no sons and only daughters, one of whom had married Lord Manderly, and another to Lord Peake. Both lords were determined that their own wife should succeed to the throne, and the rivalry between them was marked by betrayal, conspiracy and murder, and finally escalated into open war with other lords joining the cause on both sides. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and Manderlys. Ser Osmund then placed a distant cousin of the late Garth Greybeard on the throne who ascended as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

House Manderly was driven into exile from the Reach by Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderlys' swelling power in the Reach. This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderly seat of [[Dunstonbury]].{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}} Lord Lorimar's daughter married Perceon III's son [[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne]] and was the seventh Peake maiden to become Queen of All the Reach. As a powerful house, Peake daughters had married [[House Redwyne|Redwynes]], [[House Rowan|Rowans]], [[House Costayne|Costaynes]], [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], [[House Osgrey|Osgreys]], [[House Florent|Florents]] and [[House Hightower|Hightowers]] over the centuries.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}

===Targaryen Era===
Lord [[Armen Peake]] and his sons perished upon the [[Field of Fire]].{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}

Lord [[Uther Peake]] ruled during the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]] and married [[Prunella Celtigar]].{{ref|fab|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}

During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Lord [[Unwin Peake]] supported the [[greens]]. He took command of the green army from the Reach after the [[Second Battle of Tumbleton]] and led its retreat.{{ref|tpatq}} After the death of Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], Lord Unwin was given a position as one of King [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Regency of Aegon III|regents]]. He eventually became [[Hand of the King]], which he later resigned when the king would not marry his daughter.{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}

Lord [[Gormon Peake]] was a fierce supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and was considered one of the finest [[knight]]s during the reign of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]]. After they chose the side of [[House Blackfyre]] in the failed [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], they had two of their castles stripped from them, leaving them only Starpike.{{ref|tmk}} Gormon was a part of [[Daemon II Blackfyre]]'s entourage at the [[Whitewalls]] [[Wedding tourney at Whitewalls|wedding tourney]] in {{Date|211}}, and was subsequently executed for treason.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}

The Peakes rose against the [[Iron Throne]] in the [[Peake Uprising]] in {{Date|233}}. King [[Maekar I Targaryen]]'s helm was crushed by a rock hurled from the battlements of Starpike. Lord [[Robert Reyne]] and Ser [[Tywald Lannister]] were also killed in the [[Storming of Starpike]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Lannister Under the Dragons}} In the aftermath of Starpike, [[Roger Reyne]], the new [[Lord of Castamere]] took vengeance for his father Robert's death by slaughtering seven captive Peakes before Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] prevented him from harming others.<ref name=sample>''[[The World of Ice & Fire]]'': The Westerlands (unabridged). [http://www.georgerrmartin.com/world-of-ice-and-fire-sample/ georgerrmartin.com]</ref>

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lord [[Titus Peake]] is married to [[Margot Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ser [[Laswell Peake|Laswell]], [[Torman Peake|Torman]], and [[Pykewood Peake]] are exiles in the [[Golden Company]] in support of [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]]. Laswell is sent to capture [[Rain House]].{{ref|ADWD|61}}

==House Peake at the end of the third century==
The known Peakes during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord [[Titus Peake]], Lord of [[Starpike]].{{ref|asos|appendix}}{{ref|affc|appendix}}{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
** Lady [[Margot Lannister]], his wife.{{ref|asos|appendix}}

With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:

* Ser [[Laswell Peake]], a [[knight]]. An exile lord serving with the [[Golden Company]].{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Torman Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Pykewood Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}

==Historical Members==
* Ser [[Urrathon Peake]], called "Urrathon the Shieldsmasher."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Meryn Peake]], called "Meryn the Scribe."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lady [[Yrma Peake]], called "Yrma of the Golden Bowl."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Ser [[Barquen Peake]], called "Barquen the Besieger."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Eddison Peake (the Elder)|Eddison Peake]], called "Eddison the Elder."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Eddison Peake (the Younger|Eddison Peake]], called "Eddison the Younger."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Emerick Peake]], called "Emerick the Avenger."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Lorimar Peake]], who drove [[House Manderly]] from the [[Reach]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]].
** Lord Lorimar's daughter, who married [[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne Gardener]], the son of King Perceon III Gardener. She was the seventh Peake maiden to become Queen of All the Reach.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Armen Peake]], who perished on the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his sons.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Uther Peake]], head of the house during the reign of [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]]. Married [[Prunella Celtigar]].{{ref|fab|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}
* Lord [[Unwin Peake]], supported [[Aegon II Targaryen]] and the [[greens]] during [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|tpatq}} Later a [[Regent]] and [[Hand of the King]] for [[Aegon III Targaryen]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon III}}
**Lord Unwin's firstborn son, who died in infancy.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
**Lord Unwin's eldest daughter, who died in childbirth at the age of twelve.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
**Lord Unwin's two daughters by his second wife, who both died in infancy.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
**Lord Unwin's second son, fostered on [[the Arbor]] as a [[page]] and [[squire]] to Lord [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] and drowned aged twelve in a sailing mishap.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
**Ser [[Titus Peake (son of Unwin)|Titus Peake]], Lord Unwin's third son and heir, knighted by [[Jon Roxton]] after the [[Battle of the Honeywine]] and died six days later in a meaningless skirmish.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
**[[Myrielle Peake]], Lord Unwin's daughter and only surviving child by the time of his regency, and a candidate for marriage with King [[Aegon III Targaryen]]. Named "Lady Turnips."{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
** Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]], Lord Unwin's [[bastard]] half-brother, a [[knight]] of [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}
** Ser [[Gedmund Peake]], Lord Unwin's uncle, called "Gedmund Great-Axe." He was given command of the royal fleet.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
* Lord [[Gormon Peake]], known as ''"Gormy"'', supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and his son [[Daemon II Blackfyre]].

==Behind the Scenes==
House Peake is a reference by [[George R. R. Martin]] to the books of [[w:Mervyn Peake|Mervyn Peake]]. Titus Groan is the main character of the ''[[w:Gormenghast (series)|Gormenghast]]'' trilogy.

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Perceon III Gardener

2018-12-28T14:21:05Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Perceon III Gardener''' was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]].

==History==
Fearing [[House Manderly]]'s swelling power in the [[Reach]], Perceon had Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drive the Manderlys into exile.{{ref|twoiaf| The Kings of Winter}} Perceon III's son [[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne]] married Lord Lorimar's daughter. {{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}

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Lorimar Peake

2018-12-28T14:20:00Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Lorimar Peake''' was Lord of [[Starpike]], [[Dunstonbury]] and [[Whitegrove]] and was a head of [[House Peake]].{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

==History==
Lorimar drove [[House Manderly]] into exile at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who feared their swelling power in the [[Reach]]. This allowed [[House Peake]] to acquire the Manderly seat of [[Dunstonbury]].{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}} Lord Lorimar's daughter married Perceon III's son [[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne]] and she was the seventh Peake maiden to become Queen of All the Reach.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}

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Perceon III Gardener

2018-12-28T14:10:40Z

Robin Waters:

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'''Perceon III Gardener''' was a [[King of the Reach]] and head of [[House Gardener]].

==History==
Fearing [[House Manderly]]'s swelling power in the [[Reach]], Perceon had Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drive the Manderlys into exile.{{ref|twoiaf| The Kings of Winter}} Perceon III's son [[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne]] married Lord Lorimar's daughter. {{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}

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House Gardener

2018-12-28T13:58:56Z

Robin Waters:

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'''House Gardener of Highgarden''' is the extinct house of the old and famed [[King of the Reach|Kings]] of the [[Reach]]. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled, through war and peace and the assimilation with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invaders]], down the generations, until the last Gardener king [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his kin were killed at the [[Field of Fire]] in the [[War of Conquest]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The kings of House Gardener initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], focused on [[Highgarden]] and the [[Mander]] river,{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}} but over time they used their claim of descending from Garth the Gardener to claim supremacy over neighboring kings and [[lord]]s.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their seat was Highgarden where many Gardener kings (and one queen) sat upon a living throne called the [[Oakenseat]] that grew from an oak that the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]] himself was reputedly said to have planted, until the throne's destruction during the reign of [[Garth X Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Kings of House Gardener wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their blazon was a green hand over a white field,{{ref|tss}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> which inspired the chivalric [[Order of the Green Hand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

==History==
===Age of Heroes===
The Gardeners claimed descent from the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]], who, according to legends from the Reach, is said to have been the High King of the [[First Men]] and common ancestor of numerous noble houses from the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} His firstborn child was [[Garth the Gardener]], the legendary first King of the Reach who reigned in the [[Age of Heroes]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} According to legend, Garth the Gardener made his home on the hill atop the [[Mander]] river that in time would become known as Highgarden, and wore a crown of vines and flowers. From his loins sprang House Gardener, whose kings would rule the Reach for many thousands of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

The Gardener kings initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], although over time they expanded their territory. The western marches between [[Horn Hill]] and [[Nightsong]] were eventually added to the Gardeners' domain. [[Old Oak]], [[Red Lake]], and [[Goldengrove]] joined the realm with pacts of friendship and mutual defense with [[Garth III Gardener|Garth III]] (the Great).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} [[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]] brought the [[Arbor]] into the kingdom and made [[House Redwyne]] his vassals after his cousin, the last [[King of the Arbor]], was lost at sea.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Not long after, King [[Garland II Gardener|Garland II]] (the Bridegroom) brought [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and their domains into the realm by wedding his daughter to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]] and putting aside his own [[Polygamy|wives]] to marry Lymond's daughter.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne III]] (the Fat) resolved the quarrel between Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] and accepted fealty for their lands without bloodshed. [[John II Gardener|John II]] (the Tall) received homage from lords and petty kings as he sailed his barge to the headwaters of the Mander.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Legendary Warrior kings from this time include [[Garth V Gardener|Garth V]] (Hammer of the Dornish), [[Gwayne I Gardener|Gwayne I]] (the Gallant), [[Gyles I Gardener|Gyles I]] (the Woe), and [[Gordan I Gardener|Gordan I]] (Grey-Eyes).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} The Gardener kings often warred with the [[ironborn]], sometimes in alliance with the [[Kings of the Rock]] and the Lords of [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} At least six Gardener kings died in battle against the ironborn, including [[Gareth II Gardener|Gareth II]] (the Grim), [[Garth VI Gardener|Garth VI]] (the Morningstar), and [[Gyles II Gardener|Gyles II]], the last of whom was tortured to death by [[Joron I Blacktyde]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}

===The Golden Reign===
The greatest of the Gardeners was King [[Garth VII Gardener]], known as the Goldenhand, for his deeds both in war and in peace.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Ascending to the Oakenseat at age twelve, Garth ruled for eighty-one years, of which less than ten were spent at war. In the few times Garth Goldenhand did go to war he utterly trounced his adversaries. As a boy he defeated an invasion of [[Dornishmen]] by King [[Ferris Fowler]], then drove the ironborn from the [[Shield Islands]] and fortified them with men from the Reach. Garth VII divided an alliance between the King of the Rock and [[Storm King]], defeating both in the [[Battle of Three Armies]], and dictated the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Garth's greatest accomplishment was giving his people three-quarters of a century of golden peace, bringing an unprecedented prosperity. Garth's rule became known as the [[Golden Reign]], and was when the Reach truly flowered.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

===Arrival of the Andals===
:{{See also|Three Sage Kings}}

The Kings of the Reach observed the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], [[stormlands]], and the [[riverlands]] from afar. Instead of allying with the invaders against other [[First Men]], they took precautions against possible Andal invasions. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] (the Gods-fearing) sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] (the Mason) constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to do the same. [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] (the Madling) supported a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however. When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]. {{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings who followed one another on the Oakenseat — [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]] (the Meek), and his grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]] — were a trio of cunning and wise kings who used a policy of accord and assimilation with the Andals rather than armed resistance. Although he continued to worship the [[old gods]], Garth IX made a [[septon]] part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at Highgarden was built during his reign. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and become its patron, helping to fund and build septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener King born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings took Andals into their service as knights and retainers. Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Merle I and Gwayne V married Andal maidens to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} The three kings also bequeathed lands, wives, and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty; numerous houses of the Reach trace their ancestry back to these Andal adventurers.

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying them and their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry. Most new lords remained loyal and helped the Gardeners against internal and external threats. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Andal Kings===
The centuries that followed the assimilation with the Andals were less peaceful, and the Gardener kings (and one queen) varied in wisdom and strength. The Kings of the Reach constantly warred against and allied with the [[Kings of the Rock]], the [[Storm Kings]], the many kings from Dorne, and the [[Kings of the Rivers and the Hills]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as [[regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

King [[Gyles III Gardener]] conquered from the Storm King all the lands north of the [[rainwood]] save for [[Storm's End]]. While he was away, the Reach was attacked by [[Lancel IV Lannister]], forcing Gyles to deal with the [[westermen]].{{ref|TSS}} A new broader war followed, involving three Dornish kings and two river kings, and ended with Gyles III dead of a [[bloody flux]] and his conquests abandoned.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]], known as Garth Greybeard, witnessed the nadir of Gardener power. The elderly and senile Garth had sired only daughters, who were married to the rival Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]]. Once the rival lords began warring, the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], [[House Durrandon|Durrandons]], and Dornish attack the kingdom. A Dornish king sacked Highgarden, killed Garth Greybeard, and destroyed the [[Oakenseat]]. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and the Manderlys, reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden, and supported [[Mern VI Gardener]], a second cousin of Garth, as king. Although a man of only modest gifts, Mern VI was able to rebuild Highgarden and restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener, relying on the counsel of his stewards: Osmund Tyrell, Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell|Robert]] — who was allowed to marry his youngest daughter in gratitude — and Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent]]. Mern's son [[Garth XI Gardener|Garth XI]] (the Painter) retaliated against the Dornish by invading the [[Red Mountains]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Approximately a thousand years ago Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drove [[House Manderly]] from the Reach at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderlys' growing power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys fled from the [[Mander]] for the [[White Knife]] in the [[north]].{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{ref|ADWD|19}} King [[Greydon Gardener]] attempted an invasion of Dorne, but was thrown back by [[Nymeria]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} King [[Garse VII Gardener|Garse VII]] was slain by the Storm King, [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]] at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===War of Conquest and Extinction===
[[File:Field of Fire.jpg|thumb|300px|End of House Gardener on the [[Field of Fire]]]]
House Gardener died out in the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[War of Conquest]] almost three hundred years before ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. When [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] invaded [[Westeros]], King [[Mern IX Gardener]] joined with [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], to put an end to [[House Targaryen]] at what would become known as the [[Field of Fire]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern commanded the center of the combined army and led the charge against Aegon's forces. The host of [[House Targaryen]] eventually broke, but by then Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], had taken to the air on their [[dragons]]. The dragons killed four thousand men of the combined army, among them Mern and his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{ref|AGOT|13}} One nephew of King Mern survived, but he died of his burns three days later, ending House Gardener.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern's High Steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered [[Highgarden]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen]], pledging fealty. Aegon named Harlen the [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] and the Lord of Highgarden, and granted Harlen dominion over the Reach in exchange for his submission to the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===Legacy===
Many of the noble houses from the Reach trace their descent back to [[Garth Greenhand]], a fact that is often used to boast of a better claim than the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] as the rightful rulers of the Reach, as the Tyrells are descendants of the Gardeners only through the female line. Houses with Garth Greenhand as an ancestor are the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], and many others.{{ref|ASOS|61}}

Golden [[currency]] from the time of the Gardeners is still in use, albeit rare.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}{{Ref|aFfC|16}} The coins are named ''hands'', each worth roughly half a gold dragon,{{Ref|aFfC|16}} and feature the hand sigil of House Gardener on one side and the likeness of the current king on the other side. They are known to have been made with [[Garth XII Gardener|Garth XII]]'s effigy.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

==Historical Members==
No precise lineage or chronology of House Gardner is known. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled as [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] until the last Gardener king, [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]], rode out to meet [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], upon the [[Field of Fire]].

*King [[Garth the Gardener]], mythical founder of House Gardener and the first King of the Reach, first son of [[Garth Greenhand]].
*King [[Garth III Gardener]], called "''the Great''", who expanded the borders of the Reach northward.
*King [[Garth V Gardener]], called "''Hammer of the Dornish''".
*King [[Gwayne I Gardener]], called "''the Gallant''".
*King [[Gyles I Gardener]], called "''the Woe''", who reportedly sold three quarters of [[Oldtown]]'s population into slavery.
*King [[Meryn III Gardener]], who brought the [[Arbor]] into the realm.
*King [[Garland II Gardener]], called "''the Bridegroom''", who brought Oldtown into the realm.
**a daughter married to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]].
*King [[Gwayne III Gardener]], called "''the Fat''".
*King [[John II Gardener]], called "''the Tall''".
*King [[Gareth II Gardener]], called "''the Grim''", died in battle against the [[ironborn]].
*King [[Garth VI Gardener]], called "''the Morningstar''", died in battle against the ironborn.
*King [[Gyles II Gardener]], who was tortured and then cut into small pieces to bait his ironborn captor's hooks.
*King [[Gordan I Gardener]], called "''Grey-Eyes''".
*King [[Garth VII Gardener]], called "''the Goldenhand''" or "''Garth Goldenhand''", greatest of all the Gardener Kings. His rule is known as the [[Golden Reign]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Lannister]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Durrandon]].
**a great-grandson, his successor.
*King [[Gwayne IV Gardener]], called "''the Gods-fearing''", who sought out the [[children of the forest]] to repel the [[Andal]] invaders.
*King [[Mern II Gardener]], called "''the Mason''", built a new curtain wall about [[Highgarden]].
*King [[Mern III Gardener]], called "''the Madling''".
*King [[Garth IX Gardener]], first of the [[Three Sage Kings]].
**King [[Merle I Gardener]], called "''the Meek''", his son and successor. First Gardener king to worship the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Second of the Three Sage Kings.
***King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], his grandson, Merle I's son and successor. The first Gardener king born into the Faith of the Seven, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. Last of the Three Sage Kings.
*King [[Garland VI Gardener]].
*King [[Gyles III Gardener]], under whose rule [[Highgarden]] reached the apex of its power.
*King [[Garth X Gardener]], called "''Garth Greybeard''", under his long reign House Gardener reached the nadir of its power.
**a daughter married to [[House Manderly|Lord Manderly]].
**a daughter married to [[House Peake|Lord Peake]].
**King [[Mern VI Gardener]], his second cousin and successor.
***King [[Garth XI Gardener]], called "''the Painter''", his son and successor.
***his youngest daughter, married to Ser [[Robert Tyrell]].
*King [[Greydon Gardener]].
*King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who had House Manderly exiled from the Reach.
**[[Gwayne Gardener (son of Perceon III)|Gwayne Gardener]], his son, married to Lord [[Lorimar Peake]]'s daughter.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}}
*King [[Garth XII Gardener]].
*King [[Garse VII Gardener]], slain at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].
*King [[Mern IX Gardener]], last of the Gardener Kings. Killed at the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his kin.
**Prince [[Edmund Gardener]], his son and heir.
**Prince [[Gawen Gardener]], his son.
**two other sons.
**two young grandsons.
**a nephew, last of the Gardeners.

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Three Sage Kings

2017-01-08T12:56:33Z

Robin Waters:

The '''Three Sage Kings''' were a trio of wise and cunning [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] from [[House Gardener]] who followed one another on the [[Oakenseat]] and who dealt with the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Reach]] long after the fall of the [[Vale]] and the [[riverlands]] and [[stormlands]]. Instead of armed resistance they took a policy of accord and assimilation toward the [[Andals]]. They were [[Garth IX Gardener]], his son [[Merle I Gardener]], and his grandson - Merle's son - [[Gwayne V Gardener]].

Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him one of his counselors, also building the first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]], though he continued to worship the [[old gods]]. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the Faith and the first to be made a [[knight]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Both Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal maidens as their wives to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm, and all three took Andals into their service as knights and retainers; Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}. All Three Sage kings bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. As the centuries passed the noble houses of [[First Men]] and Andals intermarried so freely that it become impossible to tell them apart.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Gardeners sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, and encouraged their lords bannermen to do the same. Thus the First Men of the Reach learned to arm and armor themselves in iron instead of bronze and strengthen their castles with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Though some of the new-made lords broke their vows in later years, most remained loyal and helped their kings and liege lords put down the rebels and also defend the Reach from invading Andal petty kings and warbands.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

[[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Quotes==

{{Quote|When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flock when the pack comes ravening.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}}} - King [[Garth IX Gardener]].

{{Quote|They gave us seven gods, we gave them dirt and daughters, and our sons and grandsons shall be as brothers.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}}} - King [[Gwayne V Gardener]].

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Daeron II Targaryen

2016-12-30T21:26:35Z

Robin Waters:

{{see homonyms|Daeron Targaryen}}
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'''Daeron II Targaryen''', known as '''Daeron the Good''', was the twelfth [[Lord of the Seven Kingdoms]] from [[House Targaryen]]. Daeron brought [[Dorne]] peacefully into the realm, uniting all the lands of [[Westeros]] south of [[Wall|the wall]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} His [[bastard]] half-brother, [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]], challenged his rule and the result was a terrible civil war, the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]]. Daeron died during the [[Great Spring Sickness]] in {{Date|209}}.

==Character and Appearance==
Daeron was dignified. He was round-shouldered, with thin legs and a small pot belly. His kind thoughtful face had a certain quiet strength, though, and his eyes were clear and full of resolve. He wore the elaborate dragon [[crown]] of his father, King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Targaryen_Kings Targaryen Kings (November 1, 2005)]</ref> On his coinage, he was depicted as clean-shaven.{{ref|tmk}}

Daeron the Good was seen as as wise, just, and kind-hearted.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} Not a warrior by any means, he was a cultured, scholarly man who kept company with [[maesters]] and other learned men.{{ref|tss}}

==History==
===Early life===
Born on the last day of {{Date|153}} during the final years of the reign of his great-uncle King [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon III]], Daeron was the eldest son of Prince [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon]] and Aegon's sister and wife, [[Naerys Targaryen|Naerys]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

After the failed [[conquest of Dorne]] during the short reign of [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron the Young Dragon]],{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron I}} King [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]] ascended the [[Iron Throne]] and arranged the marriage of his cousin, Prince Daeron, to Princess [[Myriah Martell]] of [[Dorne]] as part of a dual marriage pact between the two kingdoms to make peace.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I}} King Baelor later officiated at the wedding ceremony.{{fact}} In {{Date|170}} Daeron and Mariah had their first son, whom they named [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor]] in Baelor the Blessed's honor. Three other sons would later follow.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}}

===Prince of Dragonstone===
When his father became King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] in {{Date|172}}, Daeron became the heir to the [[Iron Throne]] and the [[Prince of Dragonstone]]. Daeron challenged much of Aegon IV's behavior. He became an obstacle to many of his father's schemes, most notably Aegon's plan to start an unprovoked war on [[Dorne]]. The king ignored Daeron's protests, built a massive fleet, and sent it to invade the Dornish coastin {{date|174}}. Daeron was relieved when the fleet was scattered and destroyed by a storm en route.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

At about the same time, Daeron's mother, Queen [[Naerys Targaryen|Naerys]], was suddenly accused of adultery and treason by Ser [[Morgil Hastwyck]], trying to cast doubts on Daeron's parentage. The matter was settled when Prince [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon the Dragonknight]] defended his sister's honor and slew her accuser in a [[trial by combat]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}{{ref|agot|15}} According to the writings of Maester [[Kaeth]] in ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]'', King Aegon had secretly started the rumors of Naerys's adultery. The king denied rumors he had used Morgil to instigate this tale so he would have reason to disinherit Daeron.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

Late in Aegon's reign, after the deaths of Aemon and Naerys, Aegon began to make thinly-veiled references to Daeron's alleged illegitimacy, insinuating that Daeron was not his son, but the product of an illegitimate union between his wife Naerys and their other brother, Aemon. It was also rumored that Aegon planned to disinherit Daeron in favor of a bastard son, [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

Aegon never formally disowned Daeron. Accounts differ as to why, probably because to do so would have meant civil war. Chief among Daeron's supporters was [[House Martell]], due to his marriage to Princess [[Mariah Martell]] of [[Sunspear]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} Daeron spent most of the last years of his father's reign on [[Dragonstone (island)|Dragonstone]] with his wife and children.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

On his deathbed, the spiteful Aegon legitimized all his bastards, with those born to noble mothers being called the [[Great Bastards]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

===Reign===
Upon learning of his father [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon IV's]] death, Daeron departed Dragonstone for [[King's Landing]]. He chose to crown himself with his father's crown to quell the doubts and rumors about his parentage. Mindful of his duty to the realm, Daeron acted swiftly to put to right many of the wrongs of his father's reign. He replaced the [[small council]] with his own men, typically selecting wise and capable councillors. It took a year to repair the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], whose officers were just as corrupt as Aegon had been.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

[[File:DaeronIIandPrinceMaronMartell MV.jpg|250px|thumb|Daeron II and Prince [[Maron Martell]] pay their respects to the statue of the late King [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]] at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]]]

Daeron could not undo the legitimization of his father's bastards, but he treated them honorably and continued the incomes bestowed on them. He paid the dowry Aegon had promised the Archon of [[Tyrosh]] for his daughter, [[Rohanne of Tyrosh]], to wed [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]] when Daemon was thirteen.<ref group="N">Daemon's birth seems to have occurred in late {{Date|170}}, as Baelor died in {{Date|171}} following the forty-day fast which he had started following Daemon's birth. Daemon's marriage occurred early in {{Date|184}}, as his eldest children were born that same year.</ref> On Daemon's wedding day, Dareon granted him a tract of land near the [[Blackwater Rush]] so Daemon could build a keep.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

Because of Daeron's marriage to [[Mariah Martell]], many noble [[Dornishmen]] and women flocked to Daeron's court, which served to give life in the [[Red Keep]] a foreign flavor, but this also alienated many of Daeron's other nobles and courtiers. Daeron and Mariah's marriage was happy and fruitful.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

Daeron began negotiations with his good-brother [[Maron Martell]], [[Prince of Dorne]], to unite [[Dorne]] with the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. After two years of negotiations an agreement was finalized. Maron was wed to Daeron's sister, Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|Daenerys]], in {{date|188}} and, a year later, the Prince of Dorne swore an oath of fealty before the [[Iron Throne]]. At the [[Great Sept of Baelor]], they placed a golden wreath before the statue of King [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]] and stated, "Baelor, your work is done."{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

To celebrate the peaceful joining of Dorne to the realm, Daeron founded [[Summerhall]], a new palace in the [[Dornish Marches]] lightly fortified to represent the new peace. However, other [[Great Houses]] resented special privileges and rights which were allowed to [[House Martell]]. Maron was allowed to keep the royal title "Prince" and could collect taxes for the Iron Throne with less oversight from [[King's Landing]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

The king became known as Daeron the Good by [[smallfolk]] and [[lord]]s alike. While he was more scholar than warrior, two of his sons were skilled at arms. The eldest became known as [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor Breakspear]] for the incident at the [[tourney]] to celebrate the wedding of Daenerys with Maron of Dorne, in which Baelor unhorsed Daemon Blackfyre in the final tilt. Daerion's youngest son, [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]], also proved a formidable fighter.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

===First Blackfyre Rebellion===
:{{See also|First Blackfyre Rebellion}}

The [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]] broke out in {{date|195}} and engulfed most of Westeros, but had been years in the making. Some lords, especially [[marcher lords]], still hated the [[Dornishmen]] as King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] had, and the peaceful Daeron was disliked for his ties with [[House Martell]]. Some nobles instead looked to [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]], a [[Great Bastard]] who had been granted [[Blackfyre]], one of the [[Valyrian steel]] swords of [[House Targaryen]], by Aegon for his martial skill.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} Daemon and Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|Daenerys]] had loved each other, but Daeron had his sister instead wed [[Maron Martell]] to bring Dorne into the realm.{{Ref|aDwD|38}}

Daemon's, half brother and fellow Great Bastard [[Aegor Rivers]], known as Bittersteel, motivated Daemon to finally make his claim. With the late King Aegon's rumors of Daeron's parentage in mind, some rebels, such as Ser [[Eustace Osgrey]], saw Daemon as falseborn and a usurper of the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TSS}}

The Blackfyre rebellion broke out with battles in the [[riverlands]], [[Reach]], [[Vale of Arryn]], and [[westerlands]] between those who supported the [[House Blackfyre|Black Dragon]] and those who supported the [[House Targaryen|Red Dragon]]. Daeron was supported by another Great Bastard, [[Brynden Rivers]], who was known as Bloodraven.{{ref|TSS}} The rebellion ended at the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]] in {{date|196}} with the death of Daemon and his two eldest sons, [[Aegon Blackfyre|Aegon]] and [[Aemon Blackfyre|Aemon]]. Bittersteel escaped and fled across the [[narrow sea]] with Daemon's surviving sons. The [[Blackfyre Pretenders]] continued to trouble the Seven Kingdoms for generations to come.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

===Later Reign===
After the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], Daeron took lands, castles, and hostages from those lords who fought for [[House Blackfyre]] as punishment.{{ref|TSS}} The rest of Daeron's reign was peaceful.

Daeron and [[Myriah Martell]] had four sons: [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor]], [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys]], [[Rhaegel Targaryen|Rhaegel]] and [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]]. Daeron's eldest son and heir-apparent, Baelor Breakspear, the [[Prince of Dragonstone]], served as his father's [[Hand of the King]] during the later portion of his reign. Baelor served ably as Hand and many saw in Baelor a great man who would become a great king after his father. However, tragedy struck at the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]] in {{date|209}} when Baelor was accidentally slain by Maekar during a [[trial of seven]] involving Ser [[Duncan the Tall]].{{ref|THK}}

King Daeron II died the next year in the [[Great Spring Sickness]], along with two of his grandchildren, Princes [[Valarr Targaryen|Valarr]] and [[Matarys Targaryen|Matarys]].{{ref|tss}} He was succeeded by his second son, [[Aerys I Targaryen]]. Daeron had reigned for twenty five years, and most of the those years had seen peace and plenty for the realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

==Quotes about Daeron==
{{quote|He was a good king, everybody says so. He brought [[Dorne]] into the realm and made the [[Dornishmen]] our friends.{{ref|TSS}}}} - [[Aegon V Targaryen]] to [[Duncan the Tall]]

{{quote|A king's mercy is a poisoned gift. Daeron Targaryen left me life, but took my pride and dreams and honor.{{ref|TSS}}}} - [[Eustace Osgrey]] to Duncan the Tall

{{Quote|The whole realm knew that [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|the girl]] loved Daeron's bastard brother [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]], and was loved by him in turn, but the king was wise enough to see that the good of thousands must come before the desires of two, even if those two were dear to him.{{Ref|aDwD|38}}}} - [[Doran Martell]] to [[Balon Swann]]

==Family==
===Ancestors===
{{Targaryen tree Aegon III}}

===Descendants===
{{Targaryen tree Daeron II}}

==References and Notes==
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White Harbor

2016-12-30T20:39:11Z

Robin Waters: /* History */

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| settlement_type= Port City
| location = [[north]], [[Westeros]]
| seat = [[House Manderly]]
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{{Location map|The North |long = 29 |lat = -33 |label = '''White Harbor''' |float = right |caption = The [[north]] and the location of White Harbor}}

'''White Harbor''' is a harbor city in the [[north]] which contains the [[New Castle]], the seat of [[House Manderly]]. Located south of [[Winterfell]], it is the largest settlement north of the [[Neck]], but the smallest among the five major cities of [[Westeros]]. White Harbor is the north's primary trade port. Its location on the mouth of the [[White Knife]] provides opportunities for trade further north.{{Ref|aGoT|14}}

Due to its location White Harbor has more contact with the south and there are more knights and followers of the [[Faith of the Seven]] in White Harbor than anywhere else in the north. There are some followers of the [[old gods]], but most follow the Faith.{{ref|ADWD|15}} The city has access to good fishing grounds and is also the home of many silversmiths.

==City==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of White Harbor|Images of White Harbor]]''
White Harbor is located on the eastern shore of the [[White Knife]]. It is clean and well-ordered, with wide straight cobbled streets that make it easy to walk around. The houses are built of whitewashed stone, with steeply-pitched roofs of dark grey slate. According to a semi-canon source, there may be a cadet branch of the [[House Stark|Starks]] in the city.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1239/ So Spake Martin:] The Stark Family, June 10, 2003</ref>

===Outskirts===
* '''Seal Rock''' is a massive stone dominating the approaches to the Outer Harbor. It is crowned with a ringfort of weathered stones of the [[First Men]] that stood desolate and abandoned for centuries. However, the Manderlys fortify it with crossbowmen, scorpions, and spitfires. The stone looms fifty feet above the waters, grey-green in color. Seals often rest on it.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

*The '''harbor''' is divided into the inner and outer harbors. The outer harbor is larger, but the inner harbor offers better anchorage and shelter by the city wall on one side and the looming mass of the Wolf's Den on another. A mile-long, thirty foot wall, with towers every hundred yards, is located on the jetty that separates the two harbors.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

*The '''[[Wolf's Den]]''' is an ancient fortress that now serves as a prison. It is located by the water and adjoins the city walls. Houses cling like barnacles to the walls of the Wolf's Den; one is a brewhouse which makes well-regarded black beer. There is a [[godswood]] within the prison's walls.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

*A '''fish market''' is located between the outer harbor and the Seal Gate. Seafood available at White Harbor include whitefish, winkles, crabs, mussels, clams, herring, cod, salmon, lobster, and lampreys.{{ref|ACOK|21}}

===Inside the walls===
[[File:Marc Fishman Old FishfootII.jpg|thumb|225px|Old Fishfoot © Marc Fishman.]]
The city is protected by thick walls. The Seal Gate opens into the harbor.

* '''[[Fishfoot Yard]]''', a cobbled square with a fountain at its center, located just outside the Seal Gate. There is an alley leading to a brothel.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}
* The '''[[Old Mint]]''', located in Fishfoot Yard.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}
* The '''[[Lazy Eel]]''', a winesink renowned for offering the oldest whores and vilest wine in White Harbor, along with meat pies full of lard and gristle that are inedible on their best days and poisonous on their worst.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}
* '''Castle Stair''' is a street with steps. It is a broad white stone way that leads up from the Wolf’s Den by the water to the [[New Castle]] on its hill. Marble [[mermaids]] light the way, bowls of burning whale oil cradled in their arms. From the top there is a view down to both harbors.
* The '''[[Sept of the Snows]]''' is a large sept with a domed roof surmounted by tall statues of [[the Seven]].{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

===New Castle===
* The '''[[New Castle]]''' is the seat of House Manderly. It is located on a hill inside the city wall, a broad white stone way of Castle Stair leads to its gates from the Wolf's Den below. There is a secret passage beneath the Castle Stair connecting it to the Wolf's Den.

* '''[[Merman's Court]]''' is the great hall of the New Castle where Lord Manderly holds court and feasts. Its walls, floor and ceiling are made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

==History==
[[File:Dimitri Bielak White Harbor Dromon.JPG|thumb|350px|White Harbor dromon - illustrated by Dimitri Bielak. © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
The [[First Men]] constructed an ancient ringfort atop Seal Rock at the entrance to the harbor.{{ref|ADWD|15}}

King [[Jon Stark]] founded the [[Wolf's Den]],{{ref|ADWD|29}} a castle at the mouth of the [[White Knife]], after he drove out sea raiders who were using the harbor as a base for raids inland.{{Ref|aGoT|66}} For centuries the castle was held by various [[House Stark|Starks]] and offshoot branches, such as the [[House Greystark|Greystarks]]. Other families who were lords of the Wolf's Den in the past included the [[House Flint|Flints]], [[House Locke|Lockes]], [[House Slate|Slates]], [[House Long|Longs]], [[House Holt|Holts]], and [[House Ashwood|Ashwoods]], all tasked by [[Winterfell]] to defend the White Knife.{{ref|ADWD|29}} A thousand years before the [[War of Conquest]] the land was given to the Manderlys, an exiled house from the [[Mander]] River in the [[Reach]], for loyal service to the [[Kings in the North]]. The Manderlys developed the city of White Harbor with the wealth they had brought from the Reach atop their new land near the Wolf's Den.{{ref|ADWD|19}} The ancient castle is now used as a prison, as the Manderlys reside at the [[New Castle]] and receive visitors in the [[Merman's Court]].{{ref|ADWD|19}}

During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Prince [[Jacaerys Velaryon]] traveled to White Harbor and Winterfell and convinced the north to join the [[blacks]]. Lord Manderly sent his sons, [[Medrick Manderly|Medrick]] and [[Torrhen Manderly|Torrhen]], to support [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]].{{ref|TPATQ}}

White Harbor has not seen [[wildlings]] in centuries and has never been attacked by the [[ironborn]].{{ref|ADWD|19}}

The city's history is described in Maester [[Yorrick]]'s ''[[Wed to the Sea, Being an Account of the History of White Harbor from Its Earliest Days]]''.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Dawn Age}} Maester [[Heriston]] also served in the city.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Shivering Sea}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Jon Bosco White Harbor CaptainII.png|thumb|350px|White Harbor Captain © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
[[Catelyn Stark]] hires the ''[[Storm Dancer]]'' to take her and Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] to [[King's Landing]] from White Harbor. Lord [[Eddard Stark]] instructs Catelyn to have Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] repair and strengthen the defenses of White Harbor and insure they are well-manned.{{ref|AGOT|20}} Lady Catelyn returns to the north from the [[Vale of Arryn]] with Rodrik and her uncle, Ser [[Brynden Tully]], arriving at White Harbor. She and her uncle leave White Harbor with Ser [[Wylis Manderly]] and his levies of nearly 1,500 men to meet her son [[Robb Stark|Robb]] at [[Moat Cailin]]. Lord Wyman stays behind to see to White Harbor's defenses and to raise a navy.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Ser [[Davos Seaworth]] is sent by [[Stannis Baratheon]] with a chest of letters to spread word of [[Joffrey Baratheon]]'s illegitimacy. His route is to sail to White Harbor and other harbors along the [[narrow sea]].{{ref|ACOK|10}}

While at [[Winterfell]] for the [[harvest feast]], Lord Wyman meets with [[Bran Stark]], Ser Rodrik Cassel, and Maester [[Luwin]]. He has appointed new customs officers at White Harbor, as the previous officials had held back silver for the [[Iron Throne]] instead of Robb, the new [[King in the North]]. Wyman offers to [[Old Mint|mint]] coins for Robb, informs of White Harbor's defenses, and proposes to build the king a new warfleet of galleys, with Rodrik saying he will inform Robb of the proposal. Later during the feast, Rodrik commands [[Hother Umber|Hother]] and [[Mors Umber]] to work with Wyman in building longships to combat [[wildlings]].{{ref|ACOK|16}}

After hearing of the [[ironborn]] threat to [[Torrhen's Square]], Maester Luwin sends [[raven]]s to White Harbor, the [[barrowlands]], and the [[wolfswood]] with instructions to summon their levies. While [[Theon Greyjoy]] is [[capture of Winterfell|capturing Winterfell]], Luwin is able to send another [[raven]] to alert White Harbor.{{ref|ACOK|46}} Lord Wyman then sends a dozen barges up the [[White Knife]] packed with knights, warhorses, and siege engines.{{ref|ACOK|56}} The Manderly contingent is betrayed and defeated by [[House Bolton]] in the [[battle at Winterfell]], however.{{ref|ACOK|66}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Maester [[Aemon]] of the [[Night's Watch]] sends a raven to White Harbor in a plea for help to defend [[Battle of Castle Black|Castle Black]] from [[wildlings]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
It is reported to Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] that [[Davos Seaworth]] has been executed in White Harbor and that his head and hand grace the walls of White Harbor.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Folko Streese white harbour.JPG|thumb|350px|White Harbor - illustrated by Folko Streese. © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
[[Davos Seaworth]] notes the large navy when he arrives in White Harbor, with the inner harbor filled with twenty-three war galleys.{{Ref|aDwD|15}} Davos has returned to White Harbor to treat with Wyman on behalf of [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He is preceded, however, by envoys of [[House Frey]]. [[Rhaegar Frey|Rhaegar]], [[Jared Frey|Jared]] and [[Symond Frey]] have come with the remains of Ser [[Wendel Manderly]], who died at the [[Red Wedding]]. Davos notices that the [[Old Mint]] is now being used to shelter refugees, and he visits the [[Lazy Eel]] to gather information.{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

Davos appears before the [[Merman's Court]] in the [[New Castle]] to present the case for the Manderlys to support Stannis. To save his living son and heir, Ser [[Wylis Manderly]], who is a captive at [[Harrenhal]], Lord Manderly has Davos dragged to prison as a traitor, in the presence of the Freys.{{Ref|aDwD|19}}

Manderly has Davos imprisoned in the [[Wolf's Den]], but has a different prisoner in the cell executed. The prisoner is beheaded, his head dipped in tar. The fingers of one of his hands are also cut off to resemble Davos. The head and hands are then put up on spikes on the walls of White Harbor to give the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] and Freys reason to believe in House Manderly's loyalty to the [[Iron Throne]].

Once Wyman has sent a false report to the Iron Throne and has Wylis returned, the Lord of White Harbor has [[Robett Glover]] free Davos and bring him through a secret passage to the New Castle. He tells the Onion Knight that he will swear his allegiance to Stannis Baratheon if Davos retrieves [[Rickon Stark]]. Via [[Wex Pyke]], Wyman has discovered the boy is alive, but needs a smuggler to retrieve him from [[Skagos]].{{Ref|aDwD|29}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|White Harbor is to [[King's Landing]] as my brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is to Ser [[Gregor Clegane]].{{ref|ASOS|62}}}} – [[Jaime Lannister]] to [[Brienne of Tarth]]

{{quote|If [[Winterfell]] was the heart of the [[north]], White Harbor was its mouth.{{ref|ADWD|9}}}} – thoughts of [[Davos Seaworth]]'s thoughts

{{quote|Cities were like women, [[Roro Uhoris|he]] insisted; each one had its own unique scent. [[Oldtown]] was as flowery as a perfumed dowager. [[Lannisport]] was a milkmaid, fresh and earthy, with woodsmoke in her hair. [[King's Landing]] reeked like some unwashed whore. But White Harbor's scent was sharp and salty, and a little fishy too. "She smells the way a [[mermaid]] ought to smell," [[Roro Uhoris|Roro]] said. "She smells of the sea."{{ref|ADWD|15}}}} – recollection of [[Davos Seaworth]]

{{quote|We are good people in White Harbor, lawful, loyal people.{{ref|ADWD|19}}}} - [[Leona Woolfield]] to [[Davos Seaworth]]

==Chapters that take place at White Harbor==
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 15|''A Dance with Dragons'': 15. Davos II]]
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 19|''A Dance with Dragons'': 19. Davos III]]
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 29|''A Dance with Dragons'': 29. Davos IV]]

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}

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Burning of Harrenhal

2016-11-20T14:28:31Z

Robin Waters:

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| battle_name = Burning of Harrenhal
| conflict = [[Aegon's Conquest]]
| date = [[Years before Aegon's Conquest|2 BC]]
| place = [[Harrenhal]]
| result = [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] victory
*Extinction of [[House Hoare]]
*Liberation of the [[riverlands]] from [[ironborn]] occupation
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| combatant2 = [[House Hoare]] [[ironborn]]
| commander1 = [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] [[Edmyn Tully]]
| commander2 = [[Harren Hoare]]†
| strength1 = 8,000 men{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} [[Balerion]]
| strength2 = unknown<ref>Exact numbers unknown, but less than 8.000 (''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'', The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest)</ref>
| casualties1 = unknown
| casualties2 = [[Harren Hoare]] and his sons killed most of the ironmen{{Ref|twoiaf| The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke}}
}}

The '''burning of Harrenhal''' occurred during [[Aegon's Conquest]].{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}} [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] used his [[dragon]], [[Balerion]] the Black Dread, to melt the towers of [[Harrenhal]], which killed King [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] and ended the [[House Hoare|black line]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Prelude==
[[House Hoare]] had ruled the [[Iron Islands]] and the [[riverlands]] as the [[Kings of the Isles and the Rivers]] for three generations. King [[Harren Hoare]], also known as Harren the Black, had devoted most of his reign, nearly forty years, to the construction of [[Harrenhal]], which would be the largest castle in [[Westeros]], on the northern shore of the [[Gods Eye]]. Thousands had died while building the caslte, and the [[riverlands]] had been depleted in terms of materials. On the day the new castle was finally completed, however, [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] landed at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]], to start his [[Aegon's Conquest|Conquest]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Supported by many great [[ironborn]] lords and warriors,{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke}} Black Harren raised his banners. His men fought Aegon's host in the [[Battle of the Reeds]], which was a Targaryen victory, albeit with heavy losses, and the [[Wailing Willows]], in which [[House Hoare]] was victorious. However, in the meantime, after years of plundering and beggaring the [[riverlands]], Harren the Black had to face the consequences of those actions. Lord [[Edmyn Tully]] of [[Riverrun]], the most powerful of the [[rivermen|riverlords]] following Harren's harsh treatment of [[House Bracken]] and [[House Blackwood]], refused to support Harren and instead joined the Targaryens. Following the [[House Tully|Tully's]] example, numerous other riverlords, including the [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]], [[House Mallister|Mallisters]], [[House Vance|Vances]], [[House Bracken|Brackens]], [[House Piper|Pipers]], [[House Frey|Freys]], and [[House Strong|Strongs]], rebelled against Harren's ironmen and marched to surround Harrenhal. Outnumbered, Harren closed the gates of well-stocked Harrenhal in response.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}}

==Burning of Harrenhal==
[[File:Final countdown by steves3511-d8yk761.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Balerion and Aegon I Targaryen overlooking Harrenhal before their nighttime attack.]]
Harrenhal's walls were too high and too thick, and well-stocked enough to withstand a siege. During a parley outside the castle, Aegon offered to confirm Harren as Lord of the Iron Islands, provided he would yield. Harren refused, trusting in the strength of his castle, confident that the stone would not burn. Aegon warned him that the line of [[House Hoare]] would come to an end that night, at which Harren returned to his castle. To his men, he promised riches and the daughters of the riverlords to anyone who could slay Aegon's dragon, [[Balerion]], in the upcoming battle.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

When the sun had gone down, Aegon flew Balerion high above Harrenhal, before plunging down upon Harrenhal, burning the castle beneath him. All that was flammable, both suplies and ironmen, caught fire within the castle, while Harrenhal's stone towers cracked and melted. The rivermen outside observed that the towers glowed and melted like candles.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Harren and his sons died in the largest of the towers of Harrenhal, which would later give the tower its name: [[Kingspyre Tower]].{{Ref|ACOK|30}} With their deaths, House Hoare was extinguished.

==Aftermath==
Once Harrenhal cooled, the ruined swords of the ironmen were taken to the [[Aegonfort]], where they eventually became part of the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Only a few of Harren's supporters survived the burning or the uprising of the rivermen to make it back to the Iron Islands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke}}

The day following the burning of Harrenhal, Lord [[Edmyn Tully]] swore fealthy to Aegon, who accepted and named him [[Lord Paramount of the Trident]],{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} as he had been the first riverlord to support him.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} Aegon next accepted oaths of fealthy from the other riverlords.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Aegon also granted partially-ruined Harrenhal to [[Quenton Qoherys]], who had been his master-at-arms at [[Dragonstone]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}}

It is said by some that Harrenhal's [[Wailing Tower]] is occupied by the ghosts of Harren and his sons.{{ref|ACOK|30}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|'''Harren''': What is outside my walls is of no concern to me. Those walls are strong and thick. 
'''Aegon''': But not so high as to keep out dragons. Dragons fly. 
'''Harren''': I built in stone. Stone does not burn. 
'''Aegon''': When the sun sets, your line shall end.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}}}} - [[Harren Hoare]] and [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]]

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}

{{Aegon's Conquest}}

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Burning of Harrenhal

2016-11-20T11:32:56Z

Robin Waters:

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| caption = The Fall of Harrenhal by Rene Aigner©
| battle_name = Burning of Harrenhal
| conflict = [[Aegon's Conquest]]
| date = [[Years before Aegon's Conquest|2 BC]]
| place = [[Harrenhal]]
| result = [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] victory
*Extinction of [[House Hoare]]
*Liberation of the Riverlands from [[ironborn]] occupation
| combatant1 = [[House Targaryen]] [[House Tully]] [[House Blackwood]] [[House Mallister]] [[House Vance of Atranta]] [[House Vance of Wayfarer's Rest]] [[House Bracken]] [[House Piper]] [[House Frey]] [[House Strong]]
| combatant2 = [[House Hoare]] [[ironborn]]
| commander1 = [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] [[Edmyn Tully]]
| commander2 = [[Harren Hoare]]†
| strength1 = 8,000 men{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} [[Balerion]]
| strength2 = unknown<ref>Exact numbers unknown, but less than 8.000 (''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'', The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest)</ref>
| casualties1 = unknown
| casualties2 = [[Harren Hoare]] and his sons killed most of the ironmen{{Ref|twoiaf| The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke}}
}}

The '''burning of Harrenhal''' occurred during [[Aegon's Conquest]].{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}} [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] used his [[dragon]], [[Balerion]] the Black Dread, to melt the towers of [[Harrenhal]], which killed King [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] and ended the [[House Hoare|black line]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Prelude==
[[House Hoare]] had ruled the [[Iron Islands]] and the [[riverlands]] as the [[Kings of the Isles and the Rivers]] for three generations. King [[Harren Hoare]], also known as Harren the Black, had devoted most of his reign, nearly forty years, to the construction of [[Harrenhal]], which would be the largest castle in [[Westeros]], on the northern shore of the [[Gods Eye]]. Thousands had died while building the caslte, and the [[riverlands]] had been depleted in terms of materials. On the day the new castle was finally completed, however, [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] landed at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]], to start his [[Aegon's Conquest|Conquest]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Supported by many great [[ironborn]] lords and warriors,{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke}} Black Harren raised his banners. His men fought Aegon's host in the [[Battle of the Reeds]], which was a Targaryen victory, albeit with heavy losses, and the [[Wailing Willows]], in which [[House Hoare]] was victorious. However, in the meantime, after years of plundering and beggaring the [[riverlands]], Harren the Black had to face the consequences of those actions. Lord [[Edmyn Tully]] of [[Riverrun]], the most powerful of the [[rivermen|riverlords]] following Harren's harsh treatment of [[House Bracken]] and [[House Blackwood]], refused to support Harren and instead joined the Targaryens. Following the [[House Tully|Tully's]] example, numerous other riverlords, including the [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]], [[House Mallister|Mallisters]], [[House Vance|Vances]], [[House Bracken|Brackens]], [[House Piper|Pipers]], [[House Frey|Freys]], and [[House Strong|Strongs]], rebelled against Harren's ironmen and marched to surround Harrenhal. Outnumbered, Harren closed the gates of well-stocked Harrenhal in response.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}}

[[File:Final countdown by steves3511-d8yk761.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Balerion and Aegon I Targaryen overlooking Harrenhal before their nighttime attack.]]
==Burning of Harrenhal==
Harrenhal's walls were too high and too thick, and well-stocked enough to withstand a siege. During a parley outside the castle, Aegon offered to confirm Harren as Lord of the Iron Islands, provided he would yield. Harren refused, trusting in the strength of his castle, confident that the stone would not burn. Aegon warned him that the line of [[House Hoare]] would come to an end that night, at which Harren returned to his castle. To his men, he promised riches and the daughters of the riverlords to anyone who could slay Aegon's dragon, [[Balerion]], in the upcoming battle.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

When the sun had gone down, Aegon flew Balerion high above Harrenhal, before plunging down upon Harrenhal, burning the castle beneath him. All that was flammable, both suplies and ironmen, caught fire within the castle, while Harrenhal's stone towers cracked and melted. The rivermen outside observed that the towers glowed and melted like candles.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Harren and his sons died in the largest of the towers of Harrenhal, which would later give the tower its name: [[Kingspyre Tower]].{{Ref|ACOK|30}} With their deaths, House Hoare was extinguished.

==Aftermath==
Once Harrenhal cooled, the ruined swords of the ironmen were taken to the [[Aegonfort]], where they eventually became part of the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Only a few of Harren's supporters survived the burning or the uprising of the rivermen to make it back to the Iron Islands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke}}

The day following the burning of Harrenhal, Lord [[Edmyn Tully]] swore fealthy to Aegon, who accepted and named him [[Lord Paramount of the Trident]],{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} as he had been the first riverlord to support him.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} Aegon next accepted oaths of fealthy from the other riverlords.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} Aegon also granted partially-ruined Harrenhal to [[Quenton Qoherys]], who had been his master-at-arms at [[Dragonstone]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}}

It is said by some that Harrenhal's [[Wailing Tower]] is occupied by the ghosts of Harren and his sons.{{ref|ACOK|30}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|'''Harren''': What is outside my walls is of no concern to me. Those walls are strong and thick. 
'''Aegon''': But not so high as to keep out dragons. Dragons fly. 
'''Harren''': I built in stone. Stone does not burn. 
'''Aegon''': When the sun sets, your line shall end.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}}}} - [[Harren Hoare]] and [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]]

==References and Notes==
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Field of Fire

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| caption = Men burned alive by the [[dragons]], supplemental art from ''[[Game of Thrones]]''
| battle_name = Field of Fire
| conflict = [[Aegon's Conquest]]
| date = Around 2 BC
| place = northern [[Reach]]
| result = [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] victory
*Extinction of [[House Gardener]]
| combatant1 = [[House Targaryen]]
| combatant2 = [[Kingdom of the Rock]], [[Kingdom of the Reach]]
| commander1 = [[Aegon I Targaryen]] Lord [[Jon Mooton]]
| commander2 = [[Loren I Lannister]] [[Mern IX Gardener]]† [[Edmund Gardener]]† Lord [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]
| strength1 = 11,000 and 3 [[dragon]]s
| strength2 = 55,000
| casualties1 = Fewer than 100 men [[Visenya Targaryen]] injured{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}
| casualties2 = 4,000 men burned alive 1,000 from sword and spears 30,000 surrendered [[Mern IX Gardener]]† [[Edmund Gardener]]† [[Gawen Gardener]]†
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The '''Field of Fire''' was a major battle during [[Aegon I Targaryen]]'s [[Aegon's Conquest|war of conquest]]. According to semi-canon sources the field is located in the northern part of the [[Reach]].<ref>''[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]]'', Guardians of Order</ref>

==Prelude==
[[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]], Lord of [[Dragonstone]], landed at what would become [[King's Landing]] and began subjugating the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. After the submissions of [[burning of Harrenhal|Harrenhal]], [[Crackclaw Point]], and [[Last Storm|Storm's End]], Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], gathered at [[Stoney Sept]] with their [[dragon]]s. Most of [[House Targaryen]]'s soldiers were conscripts from the recently-liberated [[riverlands]]. Lord [[Jon Mooton]] of [[Maidenpool]], one of the first lords to come over to the Targaryens, was given command of the Targaryen army.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|AGOT|13}}

[[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], joined forces with [[Mern IX Gardener]], [[King of the Reach]], at [[Goldengrove]] in an attempt to throw the Targaryen invaders back. Between the two kings they had roughly 55,000 men, roughly five times as many as the Targaryens, including 5,000 mounted [[knight]]s. Having brought half as many more men to the battle than Loren, Mern commanded the center and his son [[Edmund Gardener|Edmund]] led the vanguard. Loren led the right wing while Lord [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]] had the left.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Lord [[Manfred Hightower]], the Lord of the [[Hightower]], heeded the advice of the [[High Septon (Aegon's Conquest)|High Septon]] and did not join his liege lord, King Mern, on the march and instead kept his forces back at [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Battle==
The two armies met in the plains south of the [[Blackwater]], near the present [[Goldroad]]. While the Two Kings hoped to flank Aegon and then smash Aegon's center with knights, the Targaryens established themselves in a defensive crescent.

The allies' charge began to break the Targaryen spear lines, but Aegon and his sisters took to the air on their dragons, [[Balerion]], [[Meraxes]], and [[Vhagar]]. The dragons began to set the dry field aflame on all sides, especially upwind of the [[House Gardener|Gardener]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]] armies. Lord Mooten's Targaryen forces were safely upwind, allowing them to finish off allied soldiers who emerged from the flame. King Loren rode through the flame to safety when he realized Aegon would be triumphant.

The dragons killed 4,000 men of the combined Lannister and Gardener army, among them King Mern and all of his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{ref|AGOT|13}} The knights of the the [[Order of the Green Hand]] were wiped out. Another thousand men perished from sword and spears and arrows while 10,000 men suffered burns. Of the Targaryens less than 100 were lost while Visenya took an arrow to the shoulder. One nephew of King Mern survived the battle, but he died of his burns three days later. When he died, House Gardener died with him.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The battle, the only time in [[Aegon's Conquest]] in which all three Targaryen dragons took to the battlefield at the same time, become known afterward as the Field of Fire.{{ref|agot|13}}

==Aftermath==
The swords of the defeated were sent downriver on the [[Blackwater Rush]] to the [[Aegonfort]], where they would form part of [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror's]] [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|AGOT|43}} [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], was detained the following day. Loren the Last gave up his claim to kingship and became [[Warden of the West]] under the rule of [[House Targaryen]].{{ref|agot|13}}

Aegon marched for the extinct Gardeners' seat of [[Highgarden]], whose steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered without conflict. Aegon rewarded him by giving [[House Tyrell]] dominion over the [[Reach]] and raising him to Lord of Highgarden, [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]], and [[Warden of the South]].{{ref|agot|Appendix}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

After the surrender of Highgarden, Aegon marched north to the [[Red Fork]] of the [[Trident]] to face 30,000 [[north]]men marching south under the leadership of [[Torrhen Stark]], [[King in the North]]. Aegon and his sisters gathered an army of 45,000 from the [[riverlands]], [[stormlands]], Reach, and [[westerlands]] in response. Having learned of the [[burning of Harrenhal]] and the Field of Fire, Torrhen [[Inn of the Kneeling Man|knelt]] in submission to Aegon rather than give combat, becoming Aegon's [[Warden of the North]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|It was the only time that [[Vhagar]], [[Meraxes]], and [[Balerion]] were all unleashed at once. The singers called it the Field of Fire.{{Ref|agot|13}}}} - thoughts of [[Tyrion Lannister]]

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House Gardener

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'''House Gardener of Highgarden''' is the extinct house of the old and famed [[King of the Reach|Kings]] of the [[Reach]]. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled, through war and peace and the assimilation with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invaders]], down the generations, until the last Gardener king [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his kin were killed at the [[Field of Fire]] in the [[War of Conquest]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Their seat was [[Highgarden]], where many Gardener kings sat upon a living throne called the [[Oakenseat]] that grew from an oak that the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]] himself was reputedly said to have planted. The Kings of House Gardener wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their blazon was a green hand over a white field,{{ref|tss}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> which inspired the chivalric [[Order of the Green Hand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

==History==
===Age of Heroes===
The Gardeners claimed descent from the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]], who, according to legends from the Reach, is said to have been the High King of the [[First Men]] and common ancestor of numerous noble houses from the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} His firstborn child was [[Garth the Gardener]], the legendary first King of the Reach who reigned in the [[Age of Heroes]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} According to legend, Garth the Gardener made his home on the hill atop the [[Mander]] river that in time would become known as Highgarden, and wore a crown of vines and flowers. From his loins sprang House Gardener, whose kings would rule the Reach for many thousands of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

The Gardener kings initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], although over time they expanded their territory. The western marches between [[Horn Hill]] and [[Nightsong]] were eventually added to the Gardeners' domain. [[Old Oak]], [[Red Lake]], and [[Goldengrove]] joined the realm with pacts of friendship and mutual defense with [[Garth III Gardener|Garth III]] (the Great).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} [[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]] brought the [[Arbor]] into the kingdom and made [[House Redwyne]] his vassals after his cousin, the last [[King of the Arbor]], was lost at sea.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Not long after, King [[Garland II Gardener|Garland II]] (the Bridegroom) brought [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and their domains into the realm by wedding his daughter to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]] and putting aside his own [[Polygamy|wives]] to marry Lymond's daughter.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne III]] (the Fat) resolved the quarrel between Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] and accepted fealty for their lands without bloodshed. [[John II Gardener|John II ]] (the Tall) received homage from lords and petty kings as he sailed his barge to the headwaters of the Mander.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Legendary Warrior kings from this time include [[Garth V Gardener|Garth V]] (Hammer of the Dornish), [[Gwayne I Gardener|Gwayne I]] (the Gallant), [[Gyles I Gardener|Gyles I]] (the Woe), and [[Gordan I Gardener|Gordan I]] (Grey-Eyes).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} The Gardener kings often warred with the [[ironborn]], sometimes in alliance with the [[Kings of the Rock]] and the Lords of [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} At least six Gardener kings died in battle against the ironborn, including [[Gareth II Gardener|Gareth II]] (the Grim), [[Garth VI Gardener|Garth VI]] (the Morningstar), and [[Gyles II Gardener|Gyles II]], the last of whom was tortured to death by [[Joron I Blacktyde]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}

===The Golden Reign===
The greatest of the Gardeners was King [[Garth VII Gardener]], known as the Goldenhand, for his deeds both in war and in peace.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Ascending to the Oakenseat at age twelve, Garth ruled for eighty-one years, of which less than ten were spent at war. In the few times Garth Goldenhand did go to war he utterly trounced his adversaries. As a boy he defeated an invasion of [[Dornishmen]] by King [[Ferris Fowler]], then drove the ironborn from the [[Shield Islands]] and fortified them with men from the Reach. Garth VII divided an alliance between the King of the Rock and [[Storm King]], defeating both in the [[Battle of Three Armies]], and dictated the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Garth's greatest accomplishment was giving his people three-quarters of a century of golden peace, bringing an unprecedented prosperity. Garth's rule became known as the [[Golden Reign]], and was when the Reach truly flowered.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

===Arrival of the Andals===
:{{See also|Three Sage Kings}}

The Kings of the Reach observed the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], [[stormlands]], and the [[riverlands]] from afar. Instead of allying with the invaders against other [[First Men]], they took precautions against possible Andal invasions. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] (the Gods-fearing) sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] (the Mason) constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to do the same. [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] (the Madling) supported a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however. When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]. {{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings who followed one another on the Oakenseat — [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener| Merle I]] (the Meek), and his grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]] — were a trio of cunning and wise kings who used a policy of accord and assimilation with the Andals rather then armed resistance. Although he continued to worship the [[old gods]], Garth IX made a [[septon]] part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at Highgarden was built during his reign. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and become its patron, helping to fund and build septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener King born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings took Andals into their service as knights and retainers. Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Merle I and Gwayne V married Andal maidens to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} The three kings also bequeathed lands, wives, and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty; numerous houses of the Reach trace their ancestry back to these Andal adventurers.

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying them and their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry. Most new lords remained loyal and helped the Gardeners against internal and external threats. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Andal Kings===
The centuries that followed the assimilation with the Andals were less peaceful, and the Gardener kings (and one queen) varied in wisdom and strength. The Kings of the Reach constantly warred against and allied with the [[Kings of the Rock]], the [[Storm Kings]], the many kings from Dorne, and the [[Kings of the Rivers and the Hills]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as [[regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

King [[Gyles III Gardener]] conquered from the Storm King all the lands north of the [[rainwood]] save for [[Storm's End]]. While he was away, the Reach was attacked by [[Lancel IV Lannister]], forcing Gyles to deal with the [[westermen]].{{ref|TSS}} A new broader war followed, involving three Dornish kings and two river kings, and ended with Gyles III dead of a [[bloody flux]] and his conquests abandoned.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]], known as Garth Greybeard, witnessed the nadir of Gardener power. The elderly and senile Garth had sired only daughters, who were married to the rival Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]]. Once the rival lords began warring, the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], [[House Durrandon|Durrandons]], and Dornish attack the kingdom. A Dornish king sacked Highgarden, killed Garth Greybeard, and destroyed the [[Oakenseat]]. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and the Manderlys, reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden, and supported [[Mern VI Gardener]], a second cousin of Garth, as king. Although a man of only modest gifts, Mern VI was able to rebuild Highgarden and restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener, relying on the counsel of his stewards: Osmund Tyrell, Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell|Robert]] — who was allowed to marry his youngest daughter in gratitude — and Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent]]. Mern's son [[Garth XI Gardener|Garth XI]] (the Painter) retaliated against the Dornish by invading the [[Red Mountains]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Approximately a thousand years ago Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drove [[House Manderly]] from the Reach at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderlys' growing power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys fled from the [[Mander]] for the [[White Knife]] in the [[north]].{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{ref|ADWD|19}} King [[Greydon Gardener]] attempted an invasion of Dorne, but was thrown back by [[Nymeria]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} King [[Garse VII Gardener|Garse VII]] was slain by the Storm King, [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]] at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===War of Conquest and Extinction===
[[File:Field of Fire.jpg|thumb|300px|End of House Gardener on the [[Field of Fire]]]]
House Gardener died out in the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[War of Conquest]] almost three hundred years before ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. When [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] invaded [[Westeros]], King [[Mern IX Gardener]] joined with [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], to put an end to [[House Targaryen]] at what would become known as the [[Field of Fire]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern commanded the center of the combined army and led the charge against Aegon's forces. The host of [[House Targaryen]] eventually broke, but by then Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], had taken to the air on their [[dragons]]. The dragons killed four thousand men of the combined army, among them Mern and his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{ref|AGOT|13}} One nephew of King Mern survived, but he died of his burns three days later, ending House Gardener.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern's High Steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered [[Highgarden]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen]], pledging fealty. Aegon named Harlen the [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] and the Lord of Highgarden, and granted Harlen dominion over the Reach in exchange for his submission to the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===Legacy===
Many of the noble houses from the Reach trace their descent back to [[Garth Greenhand]], a fact that is often used to boast of a better claim than the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] as the rightful rulers of the Reach, as the Tyrells are descendants of the Gardeners only through the female line. Houses with Garth Greenhand as an ancestor are the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], and many others.{{ref|ASOS|61}}

Golden [[currency]] from the time of the Gardeners is still in use, albeit rare.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}{{Ref|aFfC|16}} The coins are named ''hands'', each worth roughly half a gold dragon,{{Ref|aFfC|16}} and feature the hand sigil of House Gardener on one side and the likeness of the current king on the other side. They are known to have been made with [[Garth XII Gardener|Garth XII]]'s effigy.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

==Historical Members==
No precise lineage or chronology of House Gardner is known. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled as [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] until the last Gardener king, [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]], rode out to meet [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], upon the [[Field of Fire]].

*King [[Garth the Gardener]], mythical founder of House Gardener and the first King of the Reach, first son of [[Garth Greenhand]].
*King [[Garth III Gardener]], called "''the Great''", who expanded the borders of the Reach northward.
*King [[Garth V Gardener]], called "''Hammer of the Dornish''".
*King [[Gwayne I Gardener]], called "''the Gallant''".
*King [[Gyles I Gardener]], called "''the Woe''", who reportedly sold three quarters of [[Oldtown]]'s population into slavery.
*King [[Meryn III Gardener]], who brought the [[Arbor]] into the realm.
*King [[Garland II Gardener]], called "''the Bridegroom''", who brought Oldtown into the realm.
**a daughter married to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]].
*King [[Gwayne III Gardener]], called "''the Fat''".
*King [[John II Gardener]], called "''the Tall''".
*King [[Gareth II Gardener]], called "''the Grim''", died in battle against the [[ironborn]].
*King [[Garth VI Gardener]], called "''the Morningstar''", died in battle against the ironborn.
*King [[Gyles II Gardener]], who was tortured and then cut into small pieces to bait his ironborn captor's hooks.
*King [[Gordan I Gardener]], called "''Grey-Eyes''".
*King [[Garth VII Gardener]], called "''the Goldenhand''" or "''Garth Goldenhand''", greatest of all the Gardener Kings. His rule is known as the [[Golden Reign]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Lannister]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Durrandon]].
**a great-grandson, his successor.
*King [[Gwayne IV Gardener]], called "''the Gods-fearing''", who sought out the [[children of the forest]] to repel the [[Andal]] invaders.
*King [[Mern II Gardener]], called "''the Mason''", built a new curtain wall about [[Highgarden]].
*King [[Mern III Gardener]], called "''the Madling''".
*King [[Garth IX Gardener]], first of the [[Three Sage Kings]].
**King [[Merle I Gardener]], called "''the Meek''", his son and successor. First Gardener king to worship the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Second of the Three Sage Kings.
***King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], his grandson, Merle I's son and successor. The first Gardener king born into the Faith of the Seven, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. Last of the Three Sage Kings.
*King [[Garland VI Gardener]].
*King [[Gyles III Gardener]], under whose rule [[Highgarden]] reached the apex of its power.
*King [[Garth X Gardener]], called "''Garth Greybeard''", under his long reign House Gardener reached the nadir of its power.
**a daughter married to [[House Manderly|Lord Manderly]].
**a daughter married to [[House Peake|Lord Peake]].
**King [[Mern VI Gardener]], his second cousin and successor.
***King [[Garth XI Gardener]], called "''the Painter''", his son and successor.
***his youngest daughter, married to Ser [[Robert Tyrell]].
*King [[Greydon Gardener]].
*King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who had House Manderly exiled from the Reach.
*King [[Garth XII Gardener]].
*King [[Garse VII Gardener]], slain at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].
*King [[Mern IX Gardener]], last of the Gardener Kings. Killed at the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his kin.
**Prince [[Edmund Gardener]], his son and heir.
**Prince [[Gawen Gardener]], his son.
**two other sons.
**two young grandsons.
**a nephew, last of the Gardeners.

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House Redwyne

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Robin Waters: /* History */

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Redwyne of [[the Arbor]]
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| Coat_of_arms = Azure, a grape cluster proper
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| Seat = The [[Arbor]]
| Current_Lord = [[Paxter Redwyne]]
| Region = The [[Reach]]
| Title = Lord of the [[Arbor]] [[King of the Arbor]] (formerly)
| Heir = Ser [[Horas Redwyne]]
| Overlord = [[House Tyrell]]
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| Founder = [[Gilbert of the Vines]]
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'''House Redwyne of the Arbor''' is one of the main noble houses sworn to [[Highgarden]]{{ref|agot|Appendix}}. Their seat is the [[Arbor]], an island south of the [[Whispering Sound]]. Redwyne is a powerful house with strong ties to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], and the [[Redwyne fleet]] provides a significant portion of the fleet of the [[Reach]], owning 200 warships and five times as many merchant vessels.

Their blazon is a burgundy grape cluster on blue, symbolizing the famed wines of the Arbor.{{ref|AGOT|29}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> The motto has not been mentioned in the books. Members of the house tend to be freckled and red of hair.

The current Lord of the Arbor, [[Paxter Redwyne]], is married to his cousin, [[Mina Tyrell]], the sister of his liege, Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. His elderly aunt, [[Olenna Redwyne]], the "Queen of Thorns", is the mother of Mace and Mina, and is a schemer ''par excellence''. Besides their marital ties, Lady Olenna's influence over House Tyrell gives the Redwynes a strong voice in the Reach.

==History==
The Redwynes claim descent from [[Gilbert of the Vines]], a legendary son of [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Garth Greenhand}} House Redwyne ruled over the Arbor as Kings of the Arbor until its last king was lost at sea, allowing his cousin, King [[Meryn III Gardener]], to make the isle part of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}} Fleets from the Arbor and [[Oldtown]] protected the Reach from naval attacks during the [[Andal invasion]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the Arbor declared for the [[greens]].{{ref|TPATQ}}

[[Bethany Redwyne]] was to have married [[Brynden Tully]], but he refused the match and she was wed to Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] instead. On the journey to [[Casterly Rock]] for the brokerage of their marriages, Prince [[Oberyn Martell|Oberyn]] and Princess [[Elia Martell]] visited the Arbor.

During the [[War of the Usurper]], Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]] joined his cousin-goodbrother, [[Mace Tyrell]], in staying loyal to King [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. His main contribution to the war was the naval blockade of [[Storm's End]] during Mace's [[Siege of Storm's End|siege]], ferrying men across [[Blackwater Bay]] and blockading [[Shipbreaker Bay]].

During [[Greyjoy's Rebellion]], the [[Redwyne fleet]] supported [[Stannis Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of Fair Isle]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Old Way and the New}}

Paxter's twin sons, [[Horas Redwyne|Horas]] and [[Hobber Redwyne|Hobber]], teased and humiliated [[Samwell Tarly]] when he was sent to the Arbor as a page.

==Recent Events==

===''A Game of Thrones''===
House Redwyne is among the noble houses that [[Viserys Targaryen]] believes will rise for him if he lands in [[Westeros]].

The Redwyne twins, [[Horas Redwyne|Horas]] and [[Hobber Redwyne|Hobber]], are in King's Landing during the events leading up to the [[War of the Five Kings]], where they are mocked at court as "Horror" and "Slobber". They ride in the [[Hand's tourney]]. They are named by Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] as possible supporters in Lord [[Eddard Stark]]'s power struggle against Queen [[Cersei Lannister]], though ultimately he chooses to rely on the [[City Watch of King's Landing|gold cloaks]] for their numbers.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the demise of King [[Robert I Baratheon]] and the self-coronation of [[Renly Baratheon]], Horas and Hobber are kept as hostages in King's Landing, preventing House Redwyne from joining the Tyrells in declaring for King Renly, and are once prevented from escape.

After [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|Renly's death]], as part of his efforts to to win House Tyrell and its most powerful houses, [[Tyrion Lannister]] sends Hobber back to their father, [[Paxter Redwyne]], with Baelish's retinue as a sign of trust, while keeping Horas as insurance.

In the end, the Tyrells do join [[House Lannister]]'s cause, and the Redwynes with them. They help rout [[Stannis Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] grants Paxter an advisory seat on the [[small council]], along with a remission of taxes on certain vintages from the [[Arbor]] for thirty years.{{ref|ASOS|19}}

Lord Redwyne and his sons become fixtures of the court. As a wedding present, Paxter gives King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]] a scale replica of ''[[King Joffrey's Valor]]'', which is being built in the Arbor. They attend the wedding of Joffrey and witness [[Purple Wedding|his murder]]. Paxter and Hobber are called as witnesses for the prosecution in the trial of Tyrion for the death of Joffrey.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lord Paxter, Ser Horas and Ser Hobber attend the funeral of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], and Paxter attends the wedding of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]].

Paxter's council seat is revoked by Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] after Tywin's death.{{ref|AFFC|16}} Cersei tasks the [[Redwyne fleet]] with the [[siege of Dragonstone]] to remove Paxter from the capital and eliminate the nearest military threat.

The absence of Paxter's fleet and the [[Battle of the Shield Islands|conquest of the Shield Islands]] by [[Euron Greyjoy]], [[King of the Isles and the North|King of the Iron Islands]], leaves the Reach unprotected from the attacks of Euron's [[ironborn]]. With the majority of the Redwyne ships gone, the Arbor is attacked by ironmen, and the small defense fleet is overwhelmed.

Ser [[Loras Tyrell]] takes command of the siege at Dragonstone in order to quickly end it and is badly wounded in his victory. Lord Paxter now sails to defend the Reach, and after Cersei's arrest by the [[Faith of the Seven|Faith]] is re-appointed to the small council, this time as [[master of ships]]. With this position, and with [[Cersei's dromonds]] taken by [[Aurane Waters|Paxter's predecessor]], the Redwyne fleet is functioning as the royal fleet. Before her own arrest, however, Cersei arranges for the arrests of Horas and Hobber as part of her intrigues against [[Margaery Tyrell]].

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Tyrion discovers a cask of strongwine in [[Pentos]] that was once a part of Lord [[Runceford Redwyne]]'s private stock.

Lord Paxter's twin sons are found innocent.{{ref|ADWD|54}}

==House Redwyne at the end of the third century==
The known Redwynes during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
* Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]], Lord of the [[Arbor]].
** [[Mina Tyrell]], his wife and first cousin. Sister of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]], and daughter of the Queen of Thorns, Olenna Redwyne.
*** Ser [[Horas Redwyne]], the son of Paxter and twin to Ser Hobber.
*** Ser [[Hobber Redwyne]], the son of Paxter and twin to Ser Horas.
*** [[Desmera Redwyne]], their daughter.
** Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], his aunt and mother-in-law, a Redwyne by birth. She is the widow of Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]], the late lord of [[Highgarden]]. She is called the "Queen of Thorns".{{ref|AFFC|16}}

With unspecified familiar relationship with the main branch, other Redwynes include:

* Ser [[Desmond Redwyne]], probably from a cadet-branch of House Redwyne.
** [[Denyse Hightower]], his wife.
*** [[Denys Redwyne]], his son.
* [[Bethany Redwyne]], Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] of [[Goldengrove]]'s wife.

{{Redwyne tree}}

===Household===
* [[Merrell Florent]], a squire.
* Maester [[Ballabar]], healer.

==Historical members==
* [[Gilbert of the Vines]], the legendary founder of the house.
* Ser [[Ryam Redwyne]] was a [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard|Lord Commander]] of the [[Kingsguard]], and was considered the greatest [[knight]] of his time, but was a disaster as [[Hand of the King|Hand]] to King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]].
* Lord [[Runceford Redwyne]], a past Lord of the [[Arbor]]. Lord [[Paxter Redwyne|Paxter]]'s grandfather and Lady [[Olenna Redwyne|Olenna]]'s father.

==References and Notes==
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House Tyrell

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{{Noble House
| House_name = House Tyrell of [[Highgarden]]
| image = [[File:House Tyrell.svg|250px|center]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A golden rose, on a green field (''Vert, a rose or'')
| Words = ''Growing Strong''
| Seat = [[Highgarden]]
| Current_Lord = [[Mace Tyrell]]
| Region = [[Reach]]
| Title = Lord of [[Highgarden]] [[Defender of the Marches]] [[High Marshal of the Reach]] [[Warden of the South]] [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] [[High Steward of Highgarden]] (pre-Conquest)
| Heir = [[Willas Tyrell]]
| Overlord = [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch = [[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep]]
| Founded_in =
| Founder = Ser [[Alester Tyrell]]
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}}

'''House Tyrell of Highgarden''' is one of the [[Great Houses]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], being [[Lords Paramount of the Mander]] and the liege lords of the [[Reach]]. A large, wealthy house, its wealth is only surpassed among the Great Houses by [[House Lannister]], and the Tyrells can field the greatest armies. Additionally, if they call the ships of the [[Redwyne fleet]], the lords of the [[Shield Islands]], and the coastal lords, they can command a navy that equals if not surpasses the [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|royal fleet]] of [[King's Landing]].

[[Highgarden]] is an ancient seat of rule and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms;{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}} the Tyrells style themselves '[[Defender of the Marches|Defenders of the Marches]]' and 'High Marshals of the Reach', and traditionally, they have been [[Warden of the South|Wardens of the South]] and [[Lord Paramount of the Mander|Lords Paramount of the Mander]]. Their sigil is a golden rose on a green field, and their words are "Growing Strong."{{Ref|aCoK|22}} Members of the family tend to have curly brown hair and brown or golden eyes.

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
The Tyrells trace their line of descent through the female line to the legendary [[Garth the Gardener]], the mythical first [[King of the Reach]] reigning in the [[Age of Heroes]], and the son of the equally mythic [[Garth Greenhand]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} Unlike other Great Houses, the Tyrells never ruled as kings. The Tyrells were [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] to [[House Gardener]], the ancient ruling line of the [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]],{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} who periodically intermarried with lower ranking houses of the Reach such as House Tyrell or [[House Florent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of the house, was an [[Andal]] [[knight]] and adventurer who showed such prowess at arms that he was named the champion and sword shield of King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], the last of the [[Three Sage Kings]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Ser Alester's eldest son also became a notable knight, but died in a tourney. Alester's second son, [[Gareth Tyrell|Gareth]], was of a more bookish bent and never achieved knighthood, choosing instead to serve as a royal steward. He and his son [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo]] performed their duties so well, the Gardeners made the office of [[High Steward of Highgarden|High Steward]] hereditary. It is from Gareth that today’s Tyrells descend.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the [[Reach]] in his name as [[Regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

When Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King [[Garth X Gardener]], succeed as Queen of the Reach, Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaimed the ruins of [[Highgarden]] which had been sacked by a [[Dorne|Dornish]] king and his raiders. Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X, who has been killed by the raiders, upon the new throne as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Relying on the able counsel of Ser Osmund, and later Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], and finally Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], King Mern ruled well, rebuilding [[Highgarden]] and doing much and more to restore the power of the [[Reach]] and House Gardener.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} Mern VI was so pleased with them that he gave Ser Robert the hand of his youngest daughter in marriage, thereby allowing the following generations of Tyrells to claim decent from [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} That was the first marriage between the two houses, and nine more unions followed in the passing centuries.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

===Targaryen Era===
[[File:T Jedruszek HighgardenHonorGuard.jpg|thumb|350px|Highgarden Honor Guard by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Following the defeat and death of King [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his other kin, at the [[Field of Fire]] during the [[War of Conquest]], [[Harlen Tyrell]], hereditary high steward of the Reach, surrendered [[Highgarden]] and was granted the castle along with dominion of the Reach as [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] by [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]. As Wardens of the South they frequently warred with the [[Dornishmen]], who remained independent. Harlen disappeared in the Dornish sands during the [[First Dornish War]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons}}

During the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]], the Tyrells hosted the famed [[Tourney of the Field of Roses]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

As the [[Dance of the Dragons]] began, Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]] was an infant, and his regent mother was judged likely to align the Reach with the House's "overmighty" bannermen, the [[House Hightower|Hightowers]], and [[the greens]].{{Ref|tpatq}} However, House Tyrell decided to take no part in the war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} The Tyrell bannermen, on the other hand, were split during the war, with men of the Reach fighting on both sides. Later Ser [[Ulf the White]] would attempt to claim Highgarden for himself, as House Tyrell had taken no part in the Dance and he believed they should be considered traitors.{{Ref|TPATQ}}

When [[Daeron I Targaryen]], the Young Dragon, attempted the [[conquest of Dorne]], Lord Lyonel commanded the army that invaded via [[Prince's Pass]]. After the initial victory, Daeron appointed Lord Tyrell as governor of Dorne. Lord Tyrell liked Dornish women and one night he pulled the rope that would signal for a wench to come to his bed, and a hundred scorpions fell from the canopy instead. His death sparked new revolts, and the conquest was undone in a fortnight.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}{{Ref|ASOS|66}}

Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo "Longthorn" Tyrell]] participated in the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]], beginning the tourney as one of the champions. Both Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] and Ser [[Duncan]] recognized him as a formidable opponent, one that Duncan would better avoid.{{ref|THK}}

During [[Robert's Rebellion]], House Tyrell stayed loyal to King [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]'s forces achieved victory against [[Robert Baratheon]] at the [[Battle of Ashford]], dealing the future king his only defeat of the war at the cost of Ser [[Quentin Tyrell]]'s life. Mace likes to take credit for the success, but it was the van under command of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] that put Robert to flight. Mace went on to [[Siege of Storm's End|besiege]] Robert's brother [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] at [[Storm's End]], but bent the knee after the Targaryens were all but wiped out in the [[Sack of King's Landing]]. Robert Baratheon, king by conquest, forgave them and accepted them as sworn vassals.

==Recent Events==
[[File:Zippo514 Highgarden.jpg|[[Highgarden]] - by Zippo514 ©|thumb|350px|right]]
===''A Game of Thrones''===
House Tyrell is among the houses that [[Viserys Targaryen]] believes will rise for him if he lands in [[Westeros]].

Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers, rides in [[the Hand's tourney]], defeating Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] but yielding the final tilt to [[Sandor Clegane]] after the Hound rescues him from the Mountain. He is upset when the [[Hand of the King]], [[Eddard Stark]], does not send him to bring Gregor to justice for pillaging the [[riverlands]]. As King [[Robert Baratheon]] lays dying, Loras supports [[Renly Baratheon]]'s desire to take the crown before either Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] or Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]] can claim it, and flees the city with him when Lord Stark rebuffs Renly's request for his aid. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] and his brothers (of which he has none), uncles, and sons (and Ser Loras specifically) are named among the nobles whom the new King Joffrey decrees must swear fealty to him or be attainted as traitors.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
House Tyrell declares for King Renly. [[Margaery Tyrell]] is to be his queen, his ex-squire and secret lover Ser Loras the Lord Commander of his [[Rainbow Guard]], and Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] his Hand. With the backing of the Tyrells and almost all of their bannermen, Renly has the strongest army in the [[War of the Five Kings]]. After a failed parley with his brother Stannis, Renly's host seems sure to win the coming battle. When he is [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|murdered that night]], an enraged Loras kills the two knights who were guarding him.

Renly's assassination sees many of the Reach's soldiers defect to Stannis's cause. The Tyrells and their leal bannermen (including [[Paxter Redwyne]], [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]]) plot their next move at [[Bitterbridge]], where they receive a visit from [[Petyr Baelish]]. He extends an offer of alliance with Houses [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|Baratheon]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]]. The Tyrells join with [[Tywin Lannister]], marching on [[King's Landing]] in time to save the city and King Joffrey and rout Stannis's forces in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Mace's second son, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan the Gallant]], fights in Renly's armor, frightening the smallfolk into believing the king had risen from the grave.

After the battle, Mace is rewarded with the [[small council]] post of [[master of ships]], while Lords Redwyne and Rowan are given advisory seats. Garlan is made [[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Lord of Brightwater Keep]], since [[House Florent|the Florents]] now serve Stannis's cause. Loras joins the [[Kingsguard]], and Margaery is betrothed to King Joffrey.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Prior to Margaery's arrival in King's Landing, Tyrell men with food carts succor the starving residents, creating wild popularity for her and her house despite the fact that it was the Tyrell embargo that created the shortage in the first place.

A Tyrell man-at-arms is killed and two [[House Gargalen|Gargalen]] man-at-arms are scalded in a fight in [[Flea Bottom]].

Mace's mother, Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], arranges to meet with [[Sansa Stark]]. Talking to Sansa about Joffrey, Olenna decides she does not care for the match between he and Margaery and conspires with Petyr Baelish to poison Joffrey at his own [[Purple Wedding|wedding feast]]. [[Tyrion Lannister]] is falsely accused of the murder, and Mace is one of the judges at his trial. He wants the Imp dead because Margaery was drinking from the same cup, unaware that it was his mother who perpetrated the poisoning, but Tyrion eventually escapes the city.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek HouseTyrell Bannermen.jpg|350px|thumb|right|House Tyrell Bannermen – by Tomasz Jedruszek]. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Tyrells come to dominate their tenuous alliance with the Lannisters despite the paranoid meddling of Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]. After the death of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], her father and the Hand of the King, Cersei resumes her regency and removes Mace and his favored bannermen from the small council. Meanwhile, Margaery is wed to the new king, Joffrey's brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], releasing Mace from his vow not to leave the city until Margaery is wed. Margaery makes a point to win the love of the people and to try and prepare Tommen for kingship; she is baffled by Cersei's refusal of all her suggestions and apparent lack of understanding regarding dire military threats. She resists the attempted seductions of Cersei's agent, [[Osney Kettleblack]].

Cersei sends Loras to [[Siege of Dragonstone|besiege Dragonstone]] and Mace to besiege [[Siege of Storm's End (300)|Storm's End]] to remove them from the capital and place them in danger. Loras is badly wounded while seizing the island, and Mace quickly returns when he hears that Margaery has been imprisoned by the [[High Sparrow]], she and Cersei exchanging mutual accusations of immorality. By the time he arrives, however, he finds [[Randyll Tarly]] has already secured her release; Lord Tarly is to hold them until their trial. Mace again vows to remain in the city, this time until Margaery is acquitted in her upcoming trial.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
With Cersei imprisoned, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] is named Lord Regent over Tommen, and he takes several steps to smooth over Cersei's actions. Mace Tyrell is finally made Hand, and his bannermen Randyll Tarly and Paxter Redwyne are made masters of [[Master of laws|laws]] and [[Master of ships|ships]], respectively. Lord Mace has a hundred Highgarden men added to the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], further consolidating power in the capital. However, Ser Kevan is killed by [[Varys]], which the Spider hopes will lead to continued fracturing of the Lannister-Tyrell alliance.

==House Tyrell at the end of the third century==
[[File:House tyrell by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|350px|Back row, left to right: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]]. Front: [[Olenna Tyrell|Olenna]], [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]], [[Alerie Hightower]].Art by Cabepfir©]]

The known Tyrells during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
* Lord [[Mace Tyrell]], Lord of [[Highgarden]], [[Defender of the Marches]], High Marshal of the [[Reach]], [[Warden of the South]] and [[Hand of the King]].
** Lady [[Alerie Hightower]], his wife.
*** [[Willas Tyrell]], his eldest son and heir. A cripple.
*** Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]], his second son. Called Garlan the Gallant. Married to [[Leonette Fossoway]]. Titular Lord of [[Brightwater Keep]].
*** Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], his third son. Called the Knight of Flowers. A brother of the [[Kingsguard]].
*** Queen [[Margaery Tyrell]], his daughter, Queen of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Widow of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly I]] and [[Joffrey I]], now married to King [[Tommen I]].
* Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], his mother. She is known as the 'Queen of Thorns.'
* Lady [[Mina Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]].
* Lady [[Janna Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Ser [[Jon Fossoway]].
* [[Garth Tyrell]], his uncle. Called 'Garth the Gross'. Lord Seneschal of Highgarden.
** [[Garse Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
** [[Garrett Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
* Ser [[Moryn Tyrell]], his uncle. Lord Commander of the [[City Watch of Oldtown]].
** Ser {[[Luthor Tyrell (son of Moryn)|Luthor Tyrell]]}, Moryn's eldest son. Married to [[Elyn Norridge]].
*** Ser [[Theodore Tyrell]], Luthor's eldest son. Married to [[Lia Serry]].
**** [[Elinor Tyrell]], Theodore's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
**** [[Luthor Tyrell (son of Theodore)|Luthor Tyrell]], Theodore's son. A squire.
*** Maester [[Medwick Tyrell|Medwick]], Luthor's second son. A [[Maester]].
*** [[Olene Tyrell]], Luthor's daughter. Married to Ser [[Leo Blackbar]].
** [[Leo Tyrell]], Moryn's second son. Called 'Leo the Lazy'. Studying at the [[Citadel]].
* Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], his uncle. A Maester.

Distant relations of the main branch are:
* Ser {[[Quentin Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain at the [[Battle of Ashford]].
** Ser [[Olymer Tyrell]], Quentin's son. Married to [[Lysa Meadows]].
*** [[Raymund Tyrell]], Olymer's eldest son.
*** [[Rickard Tyrell]], Olymer's second son.
*** [[Megga Tyrell]], Olymer's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
* Maester [[Normund Tyrell|Normund]], a cousin of Lord Mace. He is in service at [[Blackcrown]].
* Ser {[[Victor Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain by the [[Smiling Knight]] of the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]].
** [[Victaria Tyrell]], Victor's daughter. Widow of Lord [[Jon Bulwer]].
*** [[Alysanne Bulwer]], Victaria's daughter. The Lady of [[Blackcrown]].
** Ser [[Leo Tyrell (son of Victor)|Leo Tyrell]], Victor's son. Married to [[Alys Beesbury]].
*** [[Alla Tyrell]], Leo's eldest daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
*** [[Leona Tyrell]], Leo's second daughter.
*** [[Lyonel Tyrell (son of Leo)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Leo's eldest son.
*** [[Lucas Tyrell]], Leo's second son.
*** [[Lorent Tyrell]], Leo's third son.

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===Household===
====Margaery's companions and ladies-in-waiting:====
* [[Megga Tyrell|Megga]], [[Alla Tyrell|Alla]], and [[Elinor Tyrell]], Margaery's cousins.
** Elinor's betrothed, [[Alyn Ambrose]], a squire.
* Lady [[Alysanne Bulwer]], a girl, [[Meredyth Crane]], called 'Merry', Lady [[Alyce Graceford]], Lady [[Taena Merryweather]], late of [[Myr]] and wife of Lord [[Orton Merryweather]], Lady [[Leonette Fossoway]], wife of Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]].
* Septa [[Nysterica]], a sister of the Faith.

====At Highgarden:====

* Maester [[Lomys]], counselor, healer, and tutor.
* [[Igon Vyrwel]], captain of the guard.
* Ser [[Vortimer Crane]], master-at-arms.
* [[Butterbumps]], fool and jester, hugely fat.
* [[Arryk]] and [[Erryk]], called 'Left' and 'Right', twin guardsmen to Lady Olenna.

====Knights and sworn swords:====
* Ser [[Mark Mullendore]], a knight. Crippled during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].
* Ser [[Willam Wythers]], captain of Queen Margaery's guard in King's Landing.
* Ser [[Bayard Norcross]] and Ser [[Hugh Clifton]], household knights in King's Landing.

====At King's Landing====
*The '[[Blue Bard]]', whose real name is Wat, a singer. Gone mad from torture at the hands of [[Qyburn]] and, later, the [[Faith of the Seven]].

==Historical Members==
* Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], founder of the House. An [[Andal]] knight and sworn shield to King [[Gwayne V Gardener]].
** [[Gareth Tyrell]], Alester's second son.
*** [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo Tyrell]], Gareth's son.
* Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], High Steward of Highgarden during the reign of King [[Garth X Gardener]].
** Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], his son, High Steward to King [[Mern VI Gardener]]
***[[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], his grandson, High Steward to Mern VI
* Lord [[Harlen Tyrell]], first Tyrell Lord of Highgarden.
** Lord [[Theo Tyrell]], Harlen's son and successor. Consolidated Tyrell power over the Reach.
* Lord [[Matthos Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Great Council]] of {{date|101}}.
* When Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] toured the south in {{date|112}}, she was courted by the son of Lord Tyrell, among many others.{{ref|trp}}
* Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Dance of the Dragons]] and a major participant serving under King [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron I]] in the [[Conquest of Dorne]].
* Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo Tyrell]], known as "Leo Longthorn", a renowned jouster and participant in the [[Ashford Tourney]]; head of the House during the reigns of kings [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]].
* Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]], father of [[Mace Tyrell]]. He rode off a cliff to his death while hawking.

==Sworn Houses==
* '''[[House Ambrose|Ambrose]]'''.
* '''[[House Appleton|Appleton]]''' of [[Appleton]].
* '''[[House Ashford|Ashford]]''' of [[Ashford]].
* '''[[House Ball|Ball]]'''.
* '''[[House Blackbar|Blackbar]]''' of [[Bandallon]].
* '''[[House Bridges|Bridges]]'''.
* '''[[House Bushy|Bushy]].
* '''[[House Caswell|Caswell]]''' of [[Bitterbridge]].
* [[House Chester|'''Chester''']]. The head of House Chester is given the title of Lord of [[Greenshield]].
* '''[[House Cockshaw|Cockshaw]]'''.
* '''[[House Conklyn|Conklyn]]'''.
* '''[[House Cordwayner|Cordwayner]]''' of [[Hammerhal]].
* [[House Crane|'''Crane''']] of [[Red Lake]].
* '''[[House Dunn|Dunn]]'''.
* '''[[House Durwell|Durwell]]'''.
* '''[[House Florent|Florent]]''' of [[Brightwater Keep]].
* '''[[House Footly|Footly]]''' of [[Tumbleton]].
* [[House Fossoway|'''Fossoway''']]. Two branches exist —
** The "red apple" '''[[House Fossoway of Cider Hall|Fossoways of Cider Hall]]'''.
** The "green apple" '''[[House Fossoway of New Barrel|Fossoways of New Barrel]]''', a cadet branch descending from [[Raymun Fossoway]]. The house's creation is described in ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''.
* '''[[House Graceford|Graceford]]''' of [[Holyhall]].
* '''[[House Graves|Graves]]'''.
* [[House Grimm|'''Grimm''']] of [[Grimston]]. The head of House Grimm is given the title of Lord of [[Greyshield]].
* '''[[House Hastwyck|Hastwyck]]'''.
* [[House Hewett|'''Hewett''']] of [[Hewett Castle]]. The head of House Hewett is given the title of Lord of [[Oakenshield]].
* '''[[House Hightower|Hightower]]''' of the [[Hightower]]. They reside in [[Oldtown]], and are very rich and influential. Lady [[Alerie Hightower]] is the wife of Lord Mace and mother of his four children: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] and [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]].
* '''[[House Hutcheson|Hutcheson]]'''.
* '''[[House Inchfield|Inchfield]]'''.
* '''[[House Kidwell|Kidwell]]''' of [[Ivy Hall]].
* '''[[House Leygood|Leygood]]'''.
* '''[[House Lowther|Lowther]]'''.
* '''[[House Lyberr|Lyberr]]'''.
* '''[[House Meadows|Meadows]]''' of [[Grassy Vale]].
* '''[[House Merryweather|Merryweather]]''' of [[Longtable]].
* '''[[House Middlebury|Middlebury]]'''.
* '''[[House Norcross|Norcross]]'''.
* '''[[House Norridge|Norridge]].
* '''[[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]''' of [[Old Oak]].
* '''[[House Oldflowers|Oldflowers]].
* '''[[House Orme|Orme]].
* '''[[House Peake|Peake]]''' of [[Starpike]].
* '''[[House Pommingham|Pommingham]]'''.
* '''[[House Redding|Redding]]'''.
* '''[[House Redwyne|Redwyne]]''' of the [[Arbor]], a large island off of Westeros proper. The Redwynes are cousins of the Tyrell family. The Lord of the House, [[Paxter Redwyne]], is Lord Mace's cousin and married to Mace's sister [[Mina Tyrell]]. His elderly aunt, [[Olenna Redwyne]], the "Queen of Thorns", is the mother of Mace and Mina.
* '''[[House Rhysling|Rhysling]]'''.
* '''[[House Risley|Risley]]'''.
* '''[[House Rowan|Rowan]]''' of [[Goldengrove]].
* '''[[House Roxton|Roxton]]''' of the [[Ring]].
* '''[[House Serry|Serry]]'''. The head of House Serry is given the title of Lord of [[Southshield]].
* '''[[House Shermer|Shermer]]''' of [[Smithyton]].
* '''[[House Sloane|Sloane]]'''.
* '''[[House Stackhouse|Stackhouse]]'''.
* '''[[House Tarly|Tarly]]''' of [[Horn Hill]].
* '''[[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Tyrell of Brightwater Keep]]''', a newly made cadet branch of House Tyrell.
* '''[[House Uffering|Uffering]]'''.
* '''[[House Varner|Varner]]'''.
* [[House Vyrwel|'''Vyrwel''']] of [[Darkdell]].
* '''[[House Westbrook|Westbrook]]'''.
* '''[[House Willum|Willum]]'''.
* '''[[House Woodwright|Woodwright]]'''.
* '''[[House Wythers|Wythers]]'''.
* '''[[House Yelshire|Yelshire]]'''.

==Quotes==

{{Quote|My Most leal servants.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}}} - King [[Gyles III Gardener]].

{{Quote|Tyrell swords will make me king.{{ref|ACOK|22}}}} - [[Renly Baratheon]] to [[Stannis Baratheon]]

{{Quote|The Tyrells were only [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] that the [[House Targaryen|dragon-kings]] had upjumped far above their station. Their vanity was exceeded only by their ambition.{{ref|AFFC|3}}}}
– thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|The more we give these Tyrells, the more they demand of us.{{Ref|affc|12}}}} – thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|Kevan Lannister was beginning to understand why Cersei had grown so resentful of the Tyrells.{{Ref|adwd|Epilogue}}}} - thoughts of [[Kevan Lannister]]

==References and Notes==
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House Norcross

2016-10-23T16:32:40Z

Robin Waters: /* House Norcross at the end of the third century */

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'''House Norcross''' is a noble house from the [[Reach]]. According to semi-canon sources, they blazon their shield with a cross embattled, black on white.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref>

==History==

Ser [[Jeffory Norcross]], known as Neveryield, was a member of the [[Kingsguard]].

Ser [[Hosman Norcross]] was a household knight in service to Ser [[Colin Florent]] when he received an offer to marry Colin's daughter, [[Delena Florent|Delena]]. Her father had already declined a match with [[Tyrion Lannister]], who had been offered only after Delena was despoiled by [[Robert Baratheon]] in the wedding bed of her cousin, [[Selyse Florent|Selyse]], and his brother, [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]. The result of that union was [[Edric Storm]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Ser [[Bayard Norcross]] is among the household knights who spend time with Queen [[Margaery Tyrell]]. Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] has an arrest warrant signed for Bayard as part of her plan to get rid of Margaery. He is sent to the dungeons of the [[Red Keep]] after his arrest.

==House Norcross at the end of the third century==

The known Norcrosses during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Ser [[Hosman Norcross]], a household knight at [[Brightwater Keep]].
** [[Delena Florent]], his wife.
*** [[Alester Norcross]], his eldest son.
*** [[Renly Norcross]], his second son.

With unspecified familiar relationship with the lord of the house there is also:

* Ser [[Bayard Norcross]], a household knight of [[Highgarden]].

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==Historical Members==
* Ser [[Tyler Norcross]], who fought for the [[greens]] in the [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|tpatq}}
* Ser [[Jeffory Norcross]], better known as ''Neveryield'', member of the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|affc|16}}

==References and Notes==
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Coming of the Andals

2016-10-20T18:51:01Z

Robin Waters: /* Riverlands */

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The '''Andal invasion''' was a period marked by the migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,{{ref|AGOT|40}}<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago,{{ref|ADWD|48}} and some [[maesters]] like [[Denestan]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in western [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}}

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} The legend of [[Alyssa Arryn]] and [[Alyssa's Tears]] is said to be between six thousand{{ref|AGOT|40}} and two thousand years old.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]]; the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain; and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]].

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd]], whom the [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at [[House Mudd]]'s seat, [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven Andal kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}} His heir, [[Tristifer V Mudd|Tristifer V]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals had mixed results when they invaded [[Crackclaw Point]], which is now part of the [[crownlands]]. While the native Crackclaws had success fighting in their valleys and bogs, eventually, the Andals learned that what they could not conquer with swords they could through marriage.{{ref|AFFC|20}}

During their conquest the Andals burned [[weirwood]] groves and slew the [[children of the forest]] when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} The Andal [[Erreg|Erreg the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the children of the forest of the riverlands, killing the children and their First Men allies and cutting down High Heart's grove of weirwood trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals failed to conquer the [[Isle of Faces]], leading to conjecture that some children of the forest survived on the Isle with the aid of the [[green men]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
[[File:Andal Invasion.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

When the Andals first began crossing the [[narrow sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was the [[Storm King]] from [[House Durrandon]] of [[Storm's End]]. He took little interest in the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time, and he died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

To prevent the Andals from conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords of [[Cape Wrath]] into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[battle at Black Bog|Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]] in a [[battle on the river Slayne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of Storm's End. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], for instance, married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
When the Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]], they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]], [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], was supported by [[House Bolton]] when the Andal warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] was slain in the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. Theon then sailed east, raided [[Andalos]], and displayed the heads of his Andal victims along the shore of the north.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most First Men kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[Redwyne fleet|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. The [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] prepared the defenses of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]]. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought help from the [[children of the forest]], while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] focused on fortification. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]: [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]]. Rather than resist, they granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andals. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and built the first [[sept]] at Highgarden. Merle I, a convert to the [[Faith of the Seven]], promoted the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith and the first to be [[knight]]ed. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all three kings accepted Andal knights and retainers into their service. For instance, Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]] set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade, and Lord [[Damon Hightower|Damon]] was the first Hightower to accept the Faith. After Damon's premature death, his son, the young Lord [[Triston Hightower|Triston]], was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]], who eventually became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston honored Robeson by building the [[Starry Sept]], while Triston's son, Lord [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}}

The Gardeners encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. The Andals and First Men of the Reach became closely integrated, and most of the newcomers aided the Gardeners against future Andal invaders. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that "seldom has a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed."{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
The Andals turned their attention to the [[Iron Islands]] a thousand years after their landing on the [[Fingers]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the Iron Islands in waves, often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}

[[Rognar II Greyiron]], [[King of the Iron Islands]], was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became king by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}} The [[House Hoare|Hoare dynasty]] were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals, tolerating the Faith and promoting trade instead of reaving.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Black Blood}} The new religion never became popular in the Iron Islands and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the native [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel.{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} [[Knight]]hood and chivalry spread through most of Westeros, especially in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]]. The [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations, aside from [[beyond the Wall]].{{ref|AGOT|66}}

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. [[Dorne]] remained a peninsula of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}

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The '''Andal invasion''' was a period marked by the migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,{{ref|AGOT|40}}<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago,{{ref|ADWD|48}} and some [[maesters]] like [[Denestan]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in western [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}}

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} The legend of [[Alyssa Arryn]] and [[Alyssa's Tears]] is said to be between six thousand{{ref|AGOT|40}} and two thousand years old.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]]; the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain; and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]].

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd]], whom the [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at [[House Mudd]]'s seat, [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven Andal kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}} His heir, [[Tristifer V Mudd|Tristifer V]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals had mixed results when they invaded [[Crackclaw Point]], which is now part of the [[crownlands]]. While the native Crackclaws had success fighting in their valleys and bogs, eventually, the Andals learned that what they could not conquer with swords they could through marriage.{{ref|AFFC|20}}

During their conquest the Andals burned [[weirwood]] groves and slew the [[children of the forest]] when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} The Andal [[Erreg|Erreg the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the children of the forest of the riverlands, killing the children and their First Men allies and cutting down High Heart's grove of weirwood trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The [[Andals]] failed to conquer the [[Isle of Faces]], leading to conjecture that some children of the forest survived on the Isle with the aid of the [[green men]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
[[File:Andal Invasion.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

When the Andals first began crossing the [[narrow sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was the [[Storm King]] from [[House Durrandon]] of [[Storm's End]]. He took little interest in the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time, and he died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

To prevent the Andals from conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords of [[Cape Wrath]] into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[battle at Black Bog|Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]] in a [[battle on the river Slayne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of Storm's End. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], for instance, married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
When the Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]], they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]], [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], was supported by [[House Bolton]] when the Andal warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] was slain in the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. Theon then sailed east, raided [[Andalos]], and displayed the heads of his Andal victims along the shore of the north.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most First Men kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[Redwyne fleet|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. The [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] prepared the defenses of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]]. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought help from the [[children of the forest]], while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] focused on fortification. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]: [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]]. Rather than resist, they granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andals. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and built the first [[sept]] at Highgarden. Merle I, a convert to the [[Faith of the Seven]], promoted the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith and the first to be [[knight]]ed. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all three kings accepted Andal knights and retainers into their service. For instance, Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]] set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade, and Lord [[Damon Hightower|Damon]] was the first Hightower to accept the Faith. After Damon's premature death, his son, the young Lord [[Triston Hightower|Triston]], was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]], who eventually became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston honored Robeson by building the [[Starry Sept]], while Triston's son, Lord [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}}

The Gardeners encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. The Andals and First Men of the Reach became closely integrated, and most of the newcomers aided the Gardeners against future Andal invaders. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that "seldom has a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed."{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
The Andals turned their attention to the [[Iron Islands]] a thousand years after their landing on the [[Fingers]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the Iron Islands in waves, often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}

[[Rognar II Greyiron]], [[King of the Iron Islands]], was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became king by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}} The [[House Hoare|Hoare dynasty]] were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals, tolerating the Faith and promoting trade instead of reaving.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Black Blood}} The new religion never became popular in the Iron Islands and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the native [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel.{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} [[Knight]]hood and chivalry spread through most of Westeros, especially in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]]. The [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations, aside from [[beyond the Wall]].{{ref|AGOT|66}}

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. [[Dorne]] remained a peninsula of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}

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House Tyrell

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| House_name = House Tyrell of [[Highgarden]]
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| Coat_of_arms = A golden rose, on a green field (''Vert, a rose or'')
| Words = ''Growing Strong''
| Seat = [[Highgarden]]
| Current_Lord = [[Mace Tyrell]]
| Region = [[Reach]]
| Title = Lord of [[Highgarden]] [[Defender of the Marches]] [[High Marshal of the Reach]] [[Warden of the South]] [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] [[High Steward of Highgarden]] (pre-Conquest)
| Heir = [[Willas Tyrell]]
| Overlord = [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]
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'''House Tyrell of Highgarden''' is one of the [[Great Houses]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], being [[Lords Paramount of the Mander]] and the liege lords of the [[Reach]]. A large, wealthy house, its wealth is only surpassed among the Great Houses by [[House Lannister]], and the Tyrells can field the greatest armies. Additionally, if they call the ships of the [[Redwyne fleet]], the lords of the [[Shield Islands]], and the coastal lords, they can command a navy that equals if not surpasses the [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|royal fleet]] of [[King's Landing]].

[[Highgarden]] is an ancient seat of rule and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms;{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}} the Tyrells style themselves '[[Defender of the Marches|Defenders of the Marches]]' and 'High Marshals of the Reach', and traditionally, they have been [[Warden of the South|Wardens of the South]] and [[Lord Paramount of the Mander|Lords Paramount of the Mander]]. Their sigil is a golden rose on a green field, and their words are "Growing Strong."{{Ref|aCoK|22}} Members of the family tend to have curly brown hair and brown or golden eyes.

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
The Tyrells trace their line of descent through the female line to the legendary [[Garth the Gardener]], the mythical first [[King of the Reach]] reigning in the [[Age of Heroes]], and the son of the equally mythic [[Garth Greenhand]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} Unlike other Great Houses, the Tyrells never ruled as kings. The Tyrells were [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] to [[House Gardener]], the ancient ruling line of the [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]],{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} who periodically intermarried with lower ranking houses of the Reach such as House Tyrell or [[House Florent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of the house, was an Andal [[knight]] and adventurer who showed such prowess at arms that he was named the champion and sword shield of King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], the last of the [[Three Sage Kings]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Ser Alester's eldest son also became a notable knight, but died in a tourney. Alester's second son, [[Gareth Tyrell|Gareth]], was of a more bookish bent and never achieved knighthood, choosing instead to serve as a royal steward. He and his son [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo]] performed their duties so well, the Gardeners made the office of [[High Steward of Highgarden|High Steward]] hereditary. It is from Gareth that today’s Tyrells descend.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the [[Reach]] in his name as [[Regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

When Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King [[Garth X Gardener]], succeed as Queen of the Reach, Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaimed the ruins of [[Highgarden]] which had been sacked by a [[Dorne|Dornish]] king and his raiders. Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X, who has been killed by the raiders, upon the new throne as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Relying on the able counsel of Ser Osmund, and later Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], and finally Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], King Mern ruled well, rebuilding [[Highgarden]] and doing much and more to restore the power of the [[Reach]] and House Gardener.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} Mern VI was so pleased with them that he gave Ser Robert the hand of his youngest daughter in marriage, thereby allowing the following generations of Tyrells to claim decent from [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} That was the first marriage between the two houses, and nine more unions followed in the succeeding centuries.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

===Targaryen Era===
[[File:T Jedruszek HighgardenHonorGuard.jpg|thumb|350px|Highgarden Honor Guard by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Following the defeat and death of King [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his other kin, at the [[Field of Fire]] during the [[War of Conquest]], [[Harlen Tyrell]], hereditary high steward of the Reach, surrendered [[Highgarden]] and was granted the castle along with dominion of the Reach as [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] by [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]. As Wardens of the South they frequently warred with the [[Dornishmen]], who remained independent. Harlen disappeared in the Dornish sands during the [[First Dornish War]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons}}

During the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]], the Tyrells hosted the famed [[Tourney of the Field of Roses]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

As the [[Dance of the Dragons]] began, Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]] was an infant, and his regent mother was judged likely to align the Reach with the House's "overmighty" bannermen, the [[House Hightower|Hightowers]], and [[the greens]].{{Ref|tpatq}} However, House Tyrell decided to take no part in the war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} The Tyrell bannermen, on the other hand, were split during the war, with men of the Reach fighting on both sides. Later Ser [[Ulf the White]] would attempt to claim Highgarden for himself, as House Tyrell had taken no part in the Dance and he believed they should be considered traitors.{{Ref|TPATQ}}

When [[Daeron I Targaryen]], the Young Dragon, attempted the [[conquest of Dorne]], Lord Lyonel commanded the army that invaded via [[Prince's Pass]]. After the initial victory, Daeron appointed Lord Tyrell as governor of Dorne. Lord Tyrell liked Dornish women and one night he pulled the rope that would signal for a wench to come to his bed, and a hundred scorpions fell from the canopy instead. His death sparked new revolts, and the conquest was undone in a fortnight.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}{{Ref|ASOS|66}}

Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo "Longthorn" Tyrell]] participated in the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]], beginning the tourney as one of the champions. Both Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] and Ser [[Duncan]] recognized him as a formidable opponent, one that Duncan would better avoid.{{ref|THK}}

During [[Robert's Rebellion]], House Tyrell stayed loyal to King [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]'s forces achieved victory against [[Robert Baratheon]] at the [[Battle of Ashford]], dealing the future king his only defeat of the war at the cost of Ser [[Quentin Tyrell]]'s life. Mace likes to take credit for the success, but it was the van under command of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] that put Robert to flight. Mace went on to [[Siege of Storm's End|besiege]] Robert's brother [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] at [[Storm's End]], but bent the knee after the Targaryens were all but wiped out in the [[Sack of King's Landing]]. Robert Baratheon, king by conquest, forgave them and accepted them as sworn vassals.

==Recent Events==
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
House Tyrell is among the houses that [[Viserys Targaryen]] believes will rise for him if he lands in [[Westeros]].

Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers, rides in [[the Hand's tourney]], defeating Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] but yielding the final tilt to [[Sandor Clegane]] after the Hound rescues him from the Mountain. He is upset when the [[Hand of the King]], [[Eddard Stark]], does not send him to bring Gregor to justice for pillaging the [[riverlands]]. As King [[Robert Baratheon]] lays dying, Loras supports [[Renly Baratheon]]'s desire to take the crown before either Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] or Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]] can claim it, and flees the city with him when Lord Stark rebuffs Renly's request for his aid. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] and his brothers (of which he has none), uncles, and sons (and Ser Loras specifically) are named among the nobles whom the new King Joffrey decrees must swear fealty to him or be attainted as traitors.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
House Tyrell declares for King Renly. [[Margaery Tyrell]] is to be his queen, his ex-squire and secret lover Ser Loras the Lord Commander of his [[Rainbow Guard]], and Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] his Hand. With the backing of the Tyrells and almost all of their bannermen, Renly has the strongest army in the [[War of the Five Kings]]. After a failed parley with his brother Stannis, Renly's host seems sure to win the coming battle. When he is [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|murdered that night]], an enraged Loras kills the two knights who were guarding him.

Renly's assassination sees many of the Reach's soldiers defect to Stannis's cause. The Tyrells and their leal bannermen (including [[Paxter Redwyne]], [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]]) plot their next move at [[Bitterbridge]], where they receive a visit from [[Petyr Baelish]]. He extends an offer of alliance with Houses [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|Baratheon]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]]. The Tyrells join with [[Tywin Lannister]], marching on [[King's Landing]] in time to save the city and King Joffrey and rout Stannis's forces in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Mace's second son, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan the Gallant]], fights in Renly's armor, frightening the smallfolk into believing the king had risen from the grave.

After the battle, Mace is rewarded with the [[small council]] post of [[master of ships]], while Lords Redwyne and Rowan are given advisory seats. Garlan is made [[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Lord of Brightwater Keep]], since [[House Florent|the Florents]] now serve Stannis's cause. Loras joins the [[Kingsguard]], and Margaery is betrothed to King Joffrey.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Prior to Margaery's arrival in King's Landing, Tyrell men with food carts succor the starving residents, creating wild popularity for her and her house despite the fact that it was the Tyrell embargo that created the shortage in the first place.

A Tyrell man-at-arms is killed and two [[House Gargalen|Gargalen]] man-at-arms are scalded in a fight in [[Flea Bottom]].

Mace's mother, Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], arranges to meet with [[Sansa Stark]]. Talking to Sansa about Joffrey, Olenna decides she does not care for the match between he and Margaery and conspires with Petyr Baelish to poison Joffrey at his own [[Purple Wedding|wedding feast]]. [[Tyrion Lannister]] is falsely accused of the murder, and Mace is one of the judges at his trial. He wants the Imp dead because Margaery was drinking from the same cup, unaware that it was his mother who perpetrated the poisoning, but Tyrion eventually escapes the city.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek HouseTyrell Bannermen.jpg|350px|thumb|right|House Tyrell Bannermen – by Tomasz Jedruszek]. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Tyrells come to dominate their tenuous alliance with the Lannisters despite the paranoid meddling of Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]. After the death of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], her father and the Hand of the King, Cersei resumes her regency and removes Mace and his favored bannermen from the small council. Meanwhile, Margaery is wed to the new king, Joffrey's brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], releasing Mace from his vow not to leave the city until Margaery is wed. Margaery makes a point to win the love of the people and to try and prepare Tommen for kingship; she is baffled by Cersei's refusal of all her suggestions and apparent lack of understanding regarding dire military threats. She resists the attempted seductions of Cersei's agent, [[Osney Kettleblack]].

Cersei sends Loras to [[Siege of Dragonstone|besiege Dragonstone]] and Mace to besiege [[Siege of Storm's End (300)|Storm's End]] to remove them from the capital and place them in danger. Loras is badly wounded while seizing the island, and Mace quickly returns when he hears that Margaery has been imprisoned by the [[High Sparrow]], she and Cersei exchanging mutual accusations of immorality. By the time he arrives, however, he finds [[Randyll Tarly]] has already secured her release; Lord Tarly is to hold them until their trial. Mace again vows to remain in the city, this time until Margaery is acquitted in her upcoming trial.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
With Cersei imprisoned, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] is named Lord Regent over Tommen, and he takes several steps to smooth over Cersei's actions. Mace Tyrell is finally made Hand, and his bannermen Randyll Tarly and Paxter Redwyne are made masters of [[Master of laws|laws]] and [[Master of ships|ships]], respectively. Lord Mace has a hundred Highgarden men added to the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], further consolidating power in the capital. However, Ser Kevan is killed by [[Varys]], which the Spider hopes will lead to continued fracturing of the Lannister-Tyrell alliance.

==House Tyrell at the end of the third century==
[[File:House tyrell by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|350px|Back row, left to right: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]]. Front: [[Olenna Tyrell|Olenna]], [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]], [[Alerie Hightower]].Art by Cabepfir©]]

The known Tyrells during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
* Lord [[Mace Tyrell]], Lord of [[Highgarden]], [[Defender of the Marches]], High Marshal of the [[Reach]], [[Warden of the South]] and [[Hand of the King]].
** Lady [[Alerie Hightower]], his wife.
*** [[Willas Tyrell]], his eldest son and heir. A cripple.
*** Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]], his second son. Called Garlan the Gallant. Married to [[Leonette Fossoway]]. Titular Lord of [[Brightwater Keep]].
*** Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], his third son. Called the Knight of Flowers. A brother of the [[Kingsguard]].
*** Queen [[Margaery Tyrell]], his daughter, Queen of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Widow of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly I]] and [[Joffrey I]], now married to King [[Tommen I]].
* Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], his mother. She is known as the 'Queen of Thorns.'
* Lady [[Mina Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]].
* Lady [[Janna Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Ser [[Jon Fossoway]].
* [[Garth Tyrell]], his uncle. Called 'Garth the Gross'. Lord Seneschal of Highgarden.
** [[Garse Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
** [[Garrett Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
* Ser [[Moryn Tyrell]], his uncle. Lord Commander of the [[City Watch of Oldtown]].
** Ser {[[Luthor Tyrell (son of Moryn)|Luthor Tyrell]]}, Moryn's eldest son. Married to [[Elyn Norridge]].
*** Ser [[Theodore Tyrell]], Luthor's eldest son. Married to [[Lia Serry]].
**** [[Elinor Tyrell]], Theodore's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
**** [[Luthor Tyrell (son of Theodore)|Luthor Tyrell]], Theodore's son. A squire.
*** Maester [[Medwick Tyrell|Medwick]], Luthor's second son. A [[Maester]].
*** [[Olene Tyrell]], Luthor's daughter. Married to Ser [[Leo Blackbar]].
** [[Leo Tyrell]], Moryn's second son. Called 'Leo the Lazy'. Studying at the [[Citadel]].
* Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], his uncle. A Maester.

Distant relations of the main branch are:
* Ser {[[Quentin Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain at the [[Battle of Ashford]].
** Ser [[Olymer Tyrell]], Quentin's son. Married to [[Lysa Meadows]].
*** [[Raymund Tyrell]], Olymer's eldest son.
*** [[Rickard Tyrell]], Olymer's second son.
*** [[Megga Tyrell]], Olymer's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
* Maester [[Normund Tyrell|Normund]], a cousin of Lord Mace. He is in service at [[Blackcrown]].
* Ser {[[Victor Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain by the [[Smiling Knight]] of the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]].
** [[Victaria Tyrell]], Victor's daughter. Widow of Lord [[Jon Bulwer]].
*** [[Alysanne Bulwer]], Victaria's daughter. The Lady of [[Blackcrown]].
** Ser [[Leo Tyrell (son of Victor)|Leo Tyrell]], Victor's son. Married to [[Alys Beesbury]].
*** [[Alla Tyrell]], Leo's eldest daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
*** [[Leona Tyrell]], Leo's second daughter.
*** [[Lyonel Tyrell (son of Leo)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Leo's eldest son.
*** [[Lucas Tyrell]], Leo's second son.
*** [[Lorent Tyrell]], Leo's third son.

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===Household===
====Margaery's companions and ladies-in-waiting:====
* [[Megga Tyrell|Megga]], [[Alla Tyrell|Alla]], and [[Elinor Tyrell]], Margaery's cousins.
** Elinor's betrothed, [[Alyn Ambrose]], a squire.
* Lady [[Alysanne Bulwer]], a girl, [[Meredyth Crane]], called 'Merry', Lady [[Alyce Graceford]], Lady [[Taena Merryweather]], late of [[Myr]] and wife of Lord [[Orton Merryweather]], Lady [[Leonette Fossoway]], wife of Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]].
* Septa [[Nysterica]], a sister of the Faith.

====At Highgarden:====

* Maester [[Lomys]], counselor, healer, and tutor.
* [[Igon Vyrwel]], captain of the guard.
* Ser [[Vortimer Crane]], master-at-arms.
* [[Butterbumps]], fool and jester, hugely fat.
* [[Arryk]] and [[Erryk]], called 'Left' and 'Right', twin guardsmen to Lady Olenna.

====Knights and sworn swords:====
* Ser [[Mark Mullendore]], a knight. Crippled during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].
* Ser [[Willam Wythers]], captain of Queen Margaery's guard in King's Landing.
* Ser [[Bayard Norcross]] and Ser [[Hugh Clifton]], household knights in King's Landing.

====At King's Landing====
*The '[[Blue Bard]]', whose real name is Wat, a singer. Gone mad from torture at the hands of [[Qyburn]] and, later, the [[Faith of the Seven]].

==Historical Members==
* Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], founder of the House. An [[Andal]] knight and sworn shield to King [[Gwayne V Gardener]].
** [[Gareth Tyrell]], Alester's second son.
*** [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo Tyrell]], Gareth's son.
* Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], High Steward of Highgarden during the reign of King [[Garth X Gardener]].
** Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], his son, High Steward to King [[Mern VI Gardener]]
***[[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], his grandson, High Steward to Mern VI
* Lord [[Harlen Tyrell]], first Tyrell Lord of Highgarden.
** Lord [[Theo Tyrell]], Harlen's son and successor. Consolidated Tyrell power over the Reach.
* Lord [[Matthos Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Great Council]] of {{date|101}}.
* When Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] toured the south in {{date|112}}, she was courted by the son of Lord Tyrell, among many others.{{ref|trp}}
* Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Dance of the Dragons]] and a major participant serving under King [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron I]] in the [[Conquest of Dorne]].
* Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo Tyrell]], known as "Leo Longthorn", a renowned jouster and participant in the [[Ashford Tourney]]; head of the House during the reigns of kings [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]].
* Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]], father of [[Mace Tyrell]]. He rode off a cliff to his death while hawking.

==Sworn Houses==
* '''[[House Ambrose|Ambrose]]'''.
* '''[[House Appleton|Appleton]]''' of [[Appleton]].
* '''[[House Ashford|Ashford]]''' of [[Ashford]].
* '''[[House Ball|Ball]]'''.
* '''[[House Blackbar|Blackbar]]''' of [[Bandallon]].
* '''[[House Bridges|Bridges]]'''.
* '''[[House Bushy|Bushy]].
* '''[[House Caswell|Caswell]]''' of [[Bitterbridge]].
* [[House Chester|'''Chester''']]. The head of House Chester is given the title of Lord of [[Greenshield]].
* '''[[House Cockshaw|Cockshaw]]'''.
* '''[[House Conklyn|Conklyn]]'''.
* '''[[House Cordwayner|Cordwayner]]''' of [[Hammerhal]].
* [[House Crane|'''Crane''']] of [[Red Lake]].
* '''[[House Dunn|Dunn]]'''.
* '''[[House Durwell|Durwell]]'''.
* '''[[House Florent|Florent]]''' of [[Brightwater Keep]].
* '''[[House Footly|Footly]]''' of [[Tumbleton]].
* [[House Fossoway|'''Fossoway''']]. Two branches exist —
** The "red apple" '''[[House Fossoway of Cider Hall|Fossoways of Cider Hall]]'''.
** The "green apple" '''[[House Fossoway of New Barrel|Fossoways of New Barrel]]''', a cadet branch descending from [[Raymun Fossoway]]. The house's creation is described in ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''.
* '''[[House Graceford|Graceford]]''' of [[Holyhall]].
* '''[[House Graves|Graves]]'''.
* [[House Grimm|'''Grimm''']] of [[Grimston]]. The head of House Grimm is given the title of Lord of [[Greyshield]].
* '''[[House Hastwyck|Hastwyck]]'''.
* [[House Hewett|'''Hewett''']] of [[Hewett Castle]]. The head of House Hewett is given the title of Lord of [[Oakenshield]].
* '''[[House Hightower|Hightower]]''' of the [[Hightower]]. They reside in [[Oldtown]], and are very rich and influential. Lady [[Alerie Hightower]] is the wife of Lord Mace and mother of his four children: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] and [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]].
* '''[[House Hutcheson|Hutcheson]]'''.
* '''[[House Inchfield|Inchfield]]'''.
* '''[[House Kidwell|Kidwell]]''' of [[Ivy Hall]].
* '''[[House Leygood|Leygood]]'''.
* '''[[House Lowther|Lowther]]'''.
* '''[[House Lyberr|Lyberr]]'''.
* '''[[House Meadows|Meadows]]''' of [[Grassy Vale]].
* '''[[House Merryweather|Merryweather]]''' of [[Longtable]].
* '''[[House Middlebury|Middlebury]]'''.
* '''[[House Norcross|Norcross]]'''.
* '''[[House Norridge|Norridge]].
* '''[[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]''' of [[Old Oak]].
* '''[[House Oldflowers|Oldflowers]].
* '''[[House Orme|Orme]].
* '''[[House Peake|Peake]]''' of [[Starpike]].
* '''[[House Pommingham|Pommingham]]'''.
* '''[[House Redding|Redding]]'''.
* '''[[House Redwyne|Redwyne]]''' of the [[Arbor]], a large island off of Westeros proper. The Redwynes are cousins of the Tyrell family. The Lord of the House, [[Paxter Redwyne]], is Lord Mace's cousin and married to Mace's sister [[Mina Tyrell]]. His elderly aunt, [[Olenna Redwyne]], the "Queen of Thorns", is the mother of Mace and Mina.
* '''[[House Rhysling|Rhysling]]'''.
* '''[[House Risley|Risley]]'''.
* '''[[House Rowan|Rowan]]''' of [[Goldengrove]].
* '''[[House Roxton|Roxton]]''' of the [[Ring]].
* '''[[House Serry|Serry]]'''. The head of House Serry is given the title of Lord of [[Southshield]].
* '''[[House Shermer|Shermer]]''' of [[Smithyton]].
* '''[[House Sloane|Sloane]]'''.
* '''[[House Stackhouse|Stackhouse]]'''.
* '''[[House Tarly|Tarly]]''' of [[Horn Hill]].
* '''[[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Tyrell of Brightwater Keep]]''', a newly made cadet branch of House Tyrell.
* '''[[House Uffering|Uffering]]'''.
* '''[[House Varner|Varner]]'''.
* [[House Vyrwel|'''Vyrwel''']] of [[Darkdell]].
* '''[[House Westbrook|Westbrook]]'''.
* '''[[House Willum|Willum]]'''.
* '''[[House Woodwright|Woodwright]]'''.
* '''[[House Wythers|Wythers]]'''.
* '''[[House Yelshire|Yelshire]]'''.

==Quotes==

{{Quote|My Most leal servants.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}}} - King [[Gyles III Gardener]].

{{Quote|Tyrell swords will make me king.{{ref|ACOK|22}}}} - [[Renly Baratheon]] to [[Stannis Baratheon]]

{{Quote|The Tyrells were only [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] that the [[House Targaryen|dragon-kings]] had upjumped far above their station. Their vanity was exceeded only by their ambition.{{ref|AFFC|3}}}}
– thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|The more we give these Tyrells, the more they demand of us.{{Ref|affc|12}}}} – thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|Kevan Lannister was beginning to understand why Cersei had grown so resentful of the Tyrells.{{Ref|adwd|Epilogue}}}} - thoughts of [[Kevan Lannister]]

==References and Notes==
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Garth

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'''Garth''' can refer to:

* [[Garth (Wolf's Den)]], a gaoler, headsman and torturer in the [[Wolf's Den]]
* [[Garth of Greenaway]], a member of the [[Night's Watch]]
* [[Garth of Oldtown]], a member of the Night's Watch
* Garth Gardener has been the name of a dozen [[King of the Reach|Kings]] of the [[Reach]] from [[House Gardener]]:
** [[Garth the Gardener|Garth]], called ''Garth the Gardener'', mythical founder of House Gardener and first King of the Reach
** [[Garth III Gardener]], called ''Garth the Great'', a King of the Reach
** [[Garth V Gardener]], called ''Hammer of the Dornish'', a King of the Reach
** [[Garth VI Gardener]], called ''Garth the Morningstar'', a King of the Reach
** [[Garth VII Gardener]], called ''Garth Goldenhand'' and ''The Goldenhand'', a King of the Reach
** [[Garth IX Gardener]], a King of the Reach
** [[Garth X Gardener]], called ''Garth Greybeard'', a King of the Reach
** [[Garth XI Gardener]], called ''Garth the Painter'', a King of the Reach
** [[Garth XII Gardener]], a King of the Reach
* [[Garth Greenfield]], a knight of [[House Greenfield]]
* [[Garth Greenhand]], the mythical ancestor of numerous houses of the Reach
* [[Garth Greyfeather]], a member of the Night's Watch
* [[Garth Hightower]], a knight of [[House Hightower]]
* [[Garth Oldflowers]], a knight of [[House Oldflowers]]
* [[Garth Tyrell]], Lord Seneschal of [[Highgarden]]

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Coming of the Andals

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| result = Andals occupy all land south of the [[Neck]]. [[First Men]] hold on to the [[north]] Ending of the [[Pact]] Disappearance of the [[children of the forest]]

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| commander1 = [[Argos Sevenstar]]† Ser [[Gerold Grafton (Andal invader)|Gerold Grafton]] [[Hammer of the Hills]] Ser [[Artys Arryn]] [[Vorian Vypren]] [[Armistead Vance]] [[Erreg]] [[Morgan Martell]]
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| combatant2 = [[First Men]] [[crannogmen]] [[children of the forest]] [[Ironborn]]
| commander2 = King [[Theon Stark]] King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] King [[Robar II Royce]]† King [[Tristifer IV Mudd]]† King [[Tristifer V Mudd]]† King [[Qarlton II Durrandon]] King [[Qarlton III Durrandon]] King [[Monfryd V Durrandon]] King [[Baldric I Durrandon]]
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The '''Andal invasion''' was a period marked by the migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago, and some [[maesters]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in western [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}}

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]]; the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain; and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]]. The Andal [[Erreg|Erreg the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the [[children of the forest]] of the riverlands, killing the children and their First Men allies and cutting down High Heart's grove of [[weirwood]] trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd]], whom the [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at [[House Mudd]]'s seat, [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven Andal kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands: House Tully}} Tristifer IV's heir, [[Tristifer V Mudd|Tristifer V]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals had mixed results when they invaded [[Crackclaw Point]], which is now part of the [[crownlands]]. While the native Crackclaws had success fighting in their valleys and bogs, these First Men also eventually married Andal maidens.{{ref|AFFC|20}}

During their conquest the Andals burned weirwood groves and slew the children of the forest when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
[[File:Andal Invasion.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

When the Andals first began crossing the [[narrow sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was the [[Storm King]] from [[House Durrandon]] of [[Storm's End]]. He took little interest in the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time, and he died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

To prevent the Andals from conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords of [[Cape Wrath]] into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[battle at Black Bog|Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]] in a [[battle on the river Slayne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of Storm's End. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], for instance, married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
When the Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]], they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]], [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], was supported by [[House Bolton]] when the Andal warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] was slain in the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. Theon then sailed east, raided [[Andalos]], and displayed the heads of his Andal victims along the shore of the north.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most First Men kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[Redwyne fleet|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. The [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] prepared the defenses of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]]. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought help from the [[children of the forest]], while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] focused on fortification. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]: [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]]. Rather than resist, they granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andals. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and built the first [[sept]] at Highgarden. Merle I, a convert to the [[Faith of the Seven]], promoted the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith and the first to be [[knight]]ed. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all three kings accepted Andal knights and retainers into their service. For instance, Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]] set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade, and Lord [[Damon Hightower|Damon]] was the first Hightower to accept the Faith. After Damon's premature death, his son, the young Lord [[Triston Hightower|Triston]], was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]], who eventually became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston honored Robeson by building the [[Starry Sept]], while Triston's son, Lord [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}}

The Gardeners encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. The Andals and First Men of the Reach became closely integrated, and most of the newcomers aided the Gardeners against future Andal invaders. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that "seldom has a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed."{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
The Andals turned their attention to the [[Iron Islands]] a thousand years after their landing on the [[Fingers]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the Iron Islands in waves, often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}

[[Rognar II Greyiron]], [[King of the Iron Islands]], was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became king by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}} The [[House Hoare|Hoare dynasty]] were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals, tolerating the Faith and promoting trade instead of reaving.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Black Blood}} The new religion never became popular in the Iron Islands and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the native [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel.{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} [[Knight]]hood and chivalry spread through most of Westeros, especially in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]]. The [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations, aside from [[beyond the Wall]].{{ref|AGOT|66}}

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. [[Dorne]] remained a peninsula of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
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House Tyrell

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| Coat_of_arms = Vert, a rose Or
| Words = ''Growing Strong''
| Seat = [[Highgarden]]
| Current_Lord = [[Mace Tyrell]]
| Region = [[Reach]]
| Title = Lord of [[Highgarden]] [[Defender of the Marches]] [[High Marshal of the Reach]] [[Warden of the South]] [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] [[High Steward of Highgarden]] (pre-Conquest)
| Heir = [[Willas Tyrell]]
| Overlord = [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]
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'''House Tyrell of Highgarden''' is one of the [[Great Houses]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], being [[Lords Paramount of the Mander]] and the liege lords of the [[Reach]]. A large, wealthy house, its wealth is only surpassed among the Great Houses by [[House Lannister]], and the Tyrells can field the greatest armies. Additionally, if they call the ships of the [[Redwyne fleet]], the lords of the [[Shield Islands]], and the coastal lords, they can command a navy that equals if not surpasses the [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|royal fleet]] of [[King's Landing]].

[[Highgarden]] is an ancient seat of rule and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms; the Tyrells style themselves '[[Defender of the Marches|Defenders of the Marches]]' and 'High Marshals of the Reach', and traditionally, they have been [[Warden of the South|Wardens of the South]] and [[Lord Paramount of the Mander|Lords Paramount of the Mander]]. Their sigil is a golden rose on a green field, and their words are "Growing Strong."{{Ref|aCoK|22}} Members of the family tend to have curly brown hair and brown or golden eyes.

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
The Tyrells trace their line of descent through the female line to the legendary [[Garth the Gardener]], the mythical first [[King of the Reach]] reigning in the [[Age of Heroes]], and the son of the equally mythic [[Garth Greenhand]] (indicating the House's origin amongst the [[Andal]] [[Andal Invasion|invaders]] thousands of years later). Unlike other Great Houses, the Tyrells never ruled as kings. The Tyrells were [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] to [[House Gardener]], the ancient ruling line of the [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]], who periodically intermarried with lower ranking houses of the Reach such as House Tyrell or [[House Florent]].

Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of the House, was an Andal [[knight]] and adventurer who became the champion and sword shield of King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], the last of the [[Three Sage Kings]]. Ser Alester’s eldest son also became a notable knight, only to die in a tourney. His second son [[Gareth Tyrell]] was of a more bookish bent and never achieved knighthood, choosing instead to serve as a royal steward. He and his son [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo]] performed their duties so well, the Gardeners made the office of [[High Steward of Highgarden|High Steward]] hereditary. It is from Gareth that today’s Tyrells descend.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the [[Reach]] in his name as [[Regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}

When Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King [[Garth X Gardener]], succeed as Queen of the Reach, Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaimed the ruins of [[Highgarden]] which had been sacked by a [[Dorne|Dornish]] king and his raiders. Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X, who has been killed by the raiders, upon the new throne as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{Ref|twoiaf| Andals in the Reach}}

Relying on the able counsel of Ser Osmund, and later Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], and finally Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], King Mern ruled well, rebuilding [[Highgarden]] and doing much and more to restore the power of the [[Reach]] and House Gardener.{{Ref|twoiaf| Andals in the Reach}} Mern VI was so pleased with them that he gave Ser Robert the hand of his youngest daughter in marriage, thereby allowing the following generations of Tyrells to claim decent from [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}} That was the first marriage between the two houses, and nine more unions followed in the succeeding centuries.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}

===Targaryen Era===
[[File:T Jedruszek HighgardenHonorGuard.jpg|thumb|350px|Highgarden Honor Guard by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Following the defeat and death of King [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his other kin, at the [[Field of Fire]] during the [[War of Conquest]], [[Harlen Tyrell]], hereditary high steward of the Reach, surrendered [[Highgarden]] and was granted the castle along with dominion of the Reach as [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] by [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]. As Wardens of the South they frequently warred with the [[Dornishmen]], who remained independent. Harlen disappeared in the Dornish sands during the [[First Dornish War]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne Against the Dragons}}

During the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]], the Tyrells hosted the famed [[Tourney of the Field of Roses]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Highgarden}}

As the [[Dance of the Dragons]] began, Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]] was an infant, and his regent mother was judged likely to align the Reach with the House's "overmighty" bannermen, the [[House Hightower|Hightowers]], and [[the greens]]. As the war progressed, the Tyrell bannermen were split, with men of the Reach fighting on both sides. Later Ser [[Ulf the White]] would attempt to claim Highgarden for himself, as House Tyrell had taken no part in the Dance and he believed they should be considered traitors.

When [[Daeron I Targaryen]], the Young Dragon, attempted the [[conquest of Dorne]], Lord Lyonel commanded the army that invaded via [[Prince's Pass]]. After the initial victory, Daeron appointed Lord Tyrell as governor of Dorne. Lord Tyrell liked Dornish women and one night he pulled the rope that would signal for a wench to come to his bed, and a hundred scorpions fell from the canopy instead. His death sparked new revolts, and the conquest was undone in a fortnight.

Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo "Longthorn" Tyrell]] participated in the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]], beginning the tourney as one of the champions. Both [[Egg]] and [[Dunk]] recognized him as a formidable opponent, one that Dunk would better avoid.{{ref|THK}}

During [[Robert's Rebellion]], House Tyrell stayed loyal to King [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]'s forces achieved victory against [[Robert Baratheon]] at the [[Battle of Ashford]], dealing the future king his only defeat of the war at the cost of Ser [[Quentin Tyrell]]'s life. Mace likes to take credit for the success, but it was the van under command of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] that put Robert to flight. Mace went on to [[Siege of Storm's End|besiege]] Robert's brother [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] at [[Storm's End]], but bent the knee after the Targaryens were all but wiped out in the [[Sack of King's Landing]]. Robert Baratheon, king by conquest, forgave them and accepted them as sworn vassals.

==Recent Events==
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
House Tyrell is among the houses that [[Viserys Targaryen]] believes will rise for him if he lands in [[Westeros]].

Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers, rides in [[the Hand's tourney]], defeating Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] but yielding the final tilt to [[Sandor Clegane]] after the Hound rescues him from the Mountain. He is upset when the [[Hand of the King]], [[Eddard Stark]], does not send him to bring Gregor to justice for pillaging the [[riverlands]]. As King [[Robert Baratheon]] lays dying, Loras supports [[Renly Baratheon]]'s desire to take the crown before either Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] or Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]] can claim it, and flees the city with him when Lord Stark rebuffs Renly's request for his aid. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] and his brothers (of which he has none), uncles, and sons (and Ser Loras specifically) are named among the nobles whom the new King Joffrey decrees must swear fealty to him or be attainted as traitors.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
House Tyrell declares for King Renly. [[Margaery Tyrell]] is to be his queen, his ex-squire and secret lover Ser Loras the Lord Commander of his [[Rainbow Guard]], and Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] his Hand. With the backing of the Tyrells and almost all of their bannermen, Renly has the strongest army in the [[War of the Five Kings]]. After a failed parley with his brother Stannis, Renly's host seems sure to win the coming battle. When he is [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|murdered that night]], an enraged Loras kills the two knights who were guarding him.

Renly's assassination sees many of the Reach's soldiers defect to Stannis's cause. The Tyrells and their leal bannermen (including [[Paxter Redwyne]], [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]]) plot their next move at [[Bitterbridge]], where they receive a visit from [[Petyr Baelish]]. He extends an offer of alliance with Houses [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|Baratheon]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]]. The Tyrells join with [[Tywin Lannister]], marching on [[King's Landing]] in time to save the city and King Joffrey and rout Stannis's forces in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Mace's second son, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan the Gallant]], fights in Renly's armor, frightening the smallfolk into believing the king had risen from the grave.

After the battle, Mace is rewarded with the [[small council]] post of [[master of ships]], while Lords Redwyne and Rowan are given advisory seats. Garlan is made [[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Lord of Brightwater Keep]], since [[House Florent|the Florents]] now serve Stannis's cause. Loras joins the [[Kingsguard]], and Margaery is betrothed to King Joffrey.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Prior to Margaery's arrival in King's Landing, Tyrell men with food carts succor the starving residents, creating wild popularity for her and her house despite the fact that it was the Tyrell embargo that created the shortage in the first place.

A Tyrell man-at-arms is killed and two [[House Gargalen|Gargalen]] man-at-arms are scalded in a fight in [[Flea Bottom]].

Mace's mother, Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], arranges to meet with [[Sansa Stark]]. Talking to Sansa about Joffrey, Olenna decides she does not care for the match between he and Margaery and conspires with Petyr Baelish to poison Joffrey at his own [[Purple Wedding|wedding feast]]. [[Tyrion Lannister]] is falsely accused of the murder, and Mace is one of the judges at his trial. He wants the Imp dead because Margaery was drinking from the same cup, unaware that it was his mother who perpetrated the poisoning, but Tyrion eventually escapes the city.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek HouseTyrell Bannermen.jpg|350px|thumb|right|House Tyrell Bannermen – by Tomasz Jedruszek]. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Tyrells come to dominate their tenuous alliance with the Lannisters despite the paranoid meddling of Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]. After the death of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], her father and the Hand of the King, Cersei resumes her regency and removes Mace and his favored bannermen from the small council. Meanwhile, Margaery is wed to the new king, Joffrey's brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], releasing Mace from his vow not to leave the city until Margaery is wed. Margaery makes a point to win the love of the people and to try and prepare Tommen for kingship; she is baffled by Cersei's refusal of all her suggestions and apparent lack of understanding regarding dire military threats. She resists the attempted seductions of Cersei's agent, [[Osney Kettleblack]].

Cersei sends Loras to [[Siege of Dragonstone|besiege Dragonstone]] and Mace to besiege [[Siege of Storm's End (300)|Storm's End]] to remove them from the capital and place them in danger. Loras is badly wounded while seizing the island, and Mace quickly returns when he hears that Margaery has been imprisoned by the [[High Sparrow]], she and Cersei exchanging mutual accusations of immorality. By the time he arrives, however, he finds [[Randyll Tarly]] has already secured her release; Lord Tarly is to hold them until their trial. Mace again vows to remain in the city, this time until Margaery is acquitted in her upcoming trial.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
With Cersei imprisoned, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] is named Lord Regent over Tommen, and he takes several steps to smooth over Cersei's actions. Mace Tyrell is finally made Hand, and his bannermen Randyll Tarly and Paxter Redwyne are made masters of [[Master of laws|laws]] and [[Master of ships|ships]], respectively. Lord Mace has a hundred Highgarden men added to the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], further consolidating power in the capital. However, Ser Kevan is killed by [[Varys]], which the Spider hopes will lead to continued fracturing of the Lannister-Tyrell alliance.

==House Tyrell at the end of the third century==
[[File:House tyrell by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|350px|Back row, left to right: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]]. Front: [[Olenna Tyrell|Olenna]], [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]], [[Alerie Hightower]].Art by Cabepfir©]]

The known Tyrells during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
* Lord [[Mace Tyrell]], Lord of [[Highgarden]], [[Defender of the Marches]], High Marshal of the [[Reach]], [[Warden of the South]] and [[Hand of the King]].
** Lady [[Alerie Hightower]], his wife.
*** [[Willas Tyrell]], his eldest son and heir. A cripple.
*** Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]], his second son. Called Garlan the Gallant. Married to [[Leonette Fossoway]]. Titular Lord of [[Brightwater Keep]].
*** Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], his third son. Called the Knight of Flowers. A brother of the [[Kingsguard]].
*** Queen [[Margaery Tyrell]], his daughter, Queen of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Widow of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly I]] and [[Joffrey I]], now married to King [[Tommen I]].
* Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], his mother. She is known as the 'Queen of Thorns.'
* Lady [[Mina Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]].
* Lady [[Janna Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Ser [[Jon Fossoway]].
* [[Garth Tyrell]], his uncle. Called 'Garth the Gross'. Lord Seneschal of Highgarden.
** [[Garse Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
** [[Garrett Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
* Ser [[Moryn Tyrell]], his uncle. Lord Commander of the [[City Watch of Oldtown]].
** Ser {[[Luthor Tyrell (son of Moryn)|Luthor Tyrell]]}, Moryn's eldest son. Married to [[Elyn Norridge]].
*** Ser [[Theodore Tyrell]], Luthor's eldest son. Married to [[Lia Serry]].
**** [[Elinor Tyrell]], Theodore's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
**** [[Luthor Tyrell (son of Theodore)|Luthor Tyrell]], Theodore's son. A squire.
*** Maester [[Medwick Tyrell|Medwick]], Luthor's second son. A [[Maester]].
*** [[Olene Tyrell]], Luthor's daughter. Married to Ser [[Leo Blackbar]].
** [[Leo Tyrell]], Moryn's second son. Called 'Leo the Lazy'. Studying at the [[Citadel]].
* Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], his uncle. A Maester.

Distant relations of the main branch are:
* Ser {[[Quentin Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain at the [[Battle of Ashford]].
** Ser [[Olymer Tyrell]], Quentin's son. Married to [[Lysa Meadows]].
*** [[Raymund Tyrell]], Olymer's eldest son.
*** [[Rickard Tyrell]], Olymer's second son.
*** [[Megga Tyrell]], Olymer's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
* Maester [[Normund Tyrell|Normund]], a cousin of Lord Mace. He is in service at [[Blackcrown]].
* Ser {[[Victor Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain by the [[Smiling Knight]] of the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]].
** [[Victaria Tyrell]], Victor's daughter. Widow of Lord [[Jon Bulwer]].
*** [[Alysanne Bulwer]], Victaria's daughter. The Lady of [[Blackcrown]].
** Ser [[Leo Tyrell (son of Victor)|Leo Tyrell]], Victor's son. Married to [[Alys Beesbury]].
*** [[Alla Tyrell]], Leo's eldest daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
*** [[Leona Tyrell]], Leo's second daughter.
*** [[Lyonel Tyrell (son of Leo)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Leo's eldest son.
*** [[Lucas Tyrell]], Leo's second son.
*** [[Lorent Tyrell]], Leo's third son.

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===Household===
====Margaery's companions and ladies-in-waiting:====
* [[Megga Tyrell|Megga]], [[Alla Tyrell|Alla]], and [[Elinor Tyrell]], Margaery's cousins.
** Elinor's betrothed, [[Alyn Ambrose]], a squire.
* Lady [[Alysanne Bulwer]], a girl, [[Meredyth Crane]], called 'Merry', Lady [[Alyce Graceford]], Lady [[Taena Merryweather]], late of [[Myr]] and wife of Lord [[Orton Merryweather]], Lady [[Leonette Fossoway]], wife of Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]].
* Septa [[Nysterica]], a sister of the Faith.

====At Highgarden:====

* Maester [[Lomys]], counselor, healer, and tutor.
* [[Igon Vyrwel]], captain of the guard.
* Ser [[Vortimer Crane]], master-at-arms.
* [[Butterbumps]], fool and jester, hugely fat.
* [[Arryk]] and [[Erryk]], called 'Left' and 'Right', twin guardsmen to Lady Olenna.

====Knights and sworn swords:====
* Ser [[Mark Mullendore]], a knight. Crippled during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].
* Ser [[Willam Wythers]], captain of Queen Margaery's guard in King's Landing.
* Ser [[Bayard Norcross]] and Ser [[Hugh Clifton]], household knights in King's Landing.

====At King's Landing====
*The '[[Blue Bard]]', whose real name is Wat, a singer. Gone mad from torture at the hands of [[Qyburn]] and, later, the [[Faith of the Seven]].

==Historical Members==
* Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], founder of the House. An [[Andal]] knight and sworn shield to King [[Gwayne V Gardener]].
** [[Gareth Tyrell]], Alester's second son.
*** [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo Tyrell]], Gareth's son.
* Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], High Steward of Highgarden during the reign of King [[Garth X Gardener]].
** Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], his son, High Steward to King [[Mern VI Gardener]]
***[[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], his grandson, High Steward to Mern VI
* Lord [[Harlen Tyrell]], first Tyrell Lord of Highgarden.
** Lord [[Theo Tyrell]], Harlen's son and successor.
* Lord [[Matthos Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Great Council]] of {{date|101}}.
* When Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] toured the south in {{date|112}}, she was courted by the son of Lord Tyrell, among many others.{{ref|trp}}
* Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Dance of the Dragons]] and a major participant serving under King [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron I]] in the [[Conquest of Dorne]].
* Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo Tyrell]], known as "Leo Longthorn", a renowned jouster and participant in the [[Ashford Tourney]]; head of the House during the reigns of kings [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]].
* Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]], father of [[Mace Tyrell]]. He rode off a cliff to his death while hawking.

==Sworn Houses==
* '''[[House Ambrose|Ambrose]]'''.
* '''[[House Appleton|Appleton]]''' of [[Appleton]].
* '''[[House Ashford|Ashford]]''' of [[Ashford]].
* '''[[House Ball|Ball]]'''.
* '''[[House Blackbar|Blackbar]]''' of [[Bandallon]].
* '''[[House Bridges|Bridges]]'''.
* '''[[House Bushy|Bushy]].
* '''[[House Caswell|Caswell]]''' of [[Bitterbridge]].
* [[House Chester|'''Chester''']]. The head of House Chester is given the title of Lord of [[Greenshield]].
* '''[[House Cockshaw|Cockshaw]]'''.
* '''[[House Conklyn|Conklyn]]'''.
* '''[[House Cordwayner|Cordwayner]]''' of [[Hammerhal]].
* [[House Crane|'''Crane''']] of [[Red Lake]].
* '''[[House Dunn|Dunn]]'''.
* '''[[House Durwell|Durwell]]'''.
* '''[[House Florent|Florent]]''' of [[Brightwater Keep]].
* '''[[House Footly|Footly]]''' of [[Tumbleton]].
* [[House Fossoway|'''Fossoway''']]. Two branches exist —
** The "red apple" '''[[House Fossoway of Cider Hall|Fossoways of Cider Hall]]'''.
** The "green apple" '''[[House Fossoway of New Barrel|Fossoways of New Barrel]]''', a cadet branch descending from [[Raymun Fossoway]]. The house's creation is described in ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''.
* '''[[House Graceford|Graceford]]''' of [[Holyhall]].
* '''[[House Graves|Graves]]'''.
* [[House Grimm|'''Grimm''']] of [[Grimston]]. The head of House Grimm is given the title of Lord of [[Greyshield]].
* '''[[House Hastwyck|Hastwyck]]'''.
* [[House Hewett|'''Hewett''']] of [[Hewett Castle]]. The head of House Hewett is given the title of Lord of [[Oakenshield]].
* '''[[House Hightower|Hightower]]''' of the [[Hightower]]. They reside in [[Oldtown]], and are very rich and influential. Lady [[Alerie Hightower]] is the wife of Lord Mace and mother of his four children: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] and [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]].
* '''[[House Hutcheson|Hutcheson]]'''.
* '''[[House Inchfield|Inchfield]]'''.
* '''[[House Kidwell|Kidwell]]''' of [[Ivy Hall]].
* '''[[House Leygood|Leygood]]'''.
* '''[[House Lowther|Lowther]]'''.
* '''[[House Lyberr|Lyberr]]'''.
* '''[[House Meadows|Meadows]]''' of [[Grassy Vale]].
* '''[[House Merryweather|Merryweather]]''' of [[Longtable]].
* '''[[House Middlebury|Middlebury]]'''.
* '''[[House Norcross|Norcross]]'''.
* '''[[House Norridge|Norridge]].
* '''[[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]''' of [[Old Oak]].
* '''[[House Oldflowers|Oldflowers]].
* '''[[House Orme|Orme]].
* '''[[House Peake|Peake]]''' of [[Starpike]].
* '''[[House Pommingham|Pommingham]]'''.
* '''[[House Redding|Redding]]'''.
* '''[[House Redwyne|Redwyne]]''' of the [[Arbor]], a large island off of Westeros proper. The Redwynes are cousins of the Tyrell family. The Lord of the House, [[Paxter Redwyne]], is Lord Mace's cousin and married to Mace's sister [[Mina Tyrell]]. His elderly aunt, [[Olenna Redwyne]], the "Queen of Thorns", is the mother of Mace and Mina.
* '''[[House Rhysling|Rhysling]]'''.
* '''[[House Risley|Risley]]'''.
* '''[[House Rowan|Rowan]]''' of [[Goldengrove]].
* '''[[House Roxton|Roxton]]''' of the [[Ring]].
* '''[[House Serry|Serry]]'''. The head of House Serry is given the title of Lord of [[Southshield]].
* '''[[House Shermer|Shermer]]''' of [[Smithyton]].
* '''[[House Sloane|Sloane]]'''.
* '''[[House Stackhouse|Stackhouse]]'''.
* '''[[House Tarly|Tarly]]''' of [[Horn Hill]].
* '''[[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Tyrell of Brightwater Keep]]''', a newly made cadet branch of House Tyrell.
* '''[[House Uffering|Uffering]]'''.
* '''[[House Varner|Varner]]'''.
* [[House Vyrwel|'''Vyrwel''']] of [[Darkdell]].
* '''[[House Westbrook|Westbrook]]'''.
* '''[[House Willum|Willum]]'''.
* '''[[House Woodwright|Woodwright]]'''.
* '''[[House Wythers|Wythers]]'''.
* '''[[House Yelshire|Yelshire]]'''.

==Quotes==

{{Quote|My Most leal servants.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}}} - King [[Gyles III Gardener]].

{{Quote|Tyrell swords will make me king.{{ref|ACOK|22}}}} - [[Renly Baratheon]] to [[Stannis Baratheon]]

{{Quote|The Tyrells were only stewards that the [[House Targaryen|dragon-kings]] had upjumped far above their station. Their vanity was exceeded only by their ambition.{{ref|AFFC|3}}}}
– thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|The more we give these Tyrells, the more they demand of us.{{Ref|affc|12}}}} – thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|Kevan Lannister was beginning to understand why Cersei had grown so resentful of the Tyrells.{{Ref|adwd|Epilogue}}}} - thoughts of [[Kevan Lannister]]

==References and Notes==
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Bastardy

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Robin Waters: /* Notable Bastards */

[[File:Marc Simonetti Bittersteel.jpg|[[Aegor Rivers]], a [[Great Bastard]], fathered by [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] - by Marc Simonetti © |thumb|400px|right]]
[[File:MagaliVilleneuve Bastard Daughter.jpg|A bastard daughter of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] - by Magali Villeneuve. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|400px]]
[[File:Natascha RoeoesliJonSnowGhost.jpg|[[Jon Snow]], the acknowledged bastard son of [[Eddard Stark]] - by Natascha Roeoesli. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|400px]]
A '''bastard''' is a person whose parents, at the time of their birth, were not married to each other. There is a certain stigma that comes from being born as a bastard, as their nature is often seen as lustful and deceitful. As a polite way of referring to someone who is bastard-born, someone may be referred to as a "natural son" or "natural daughter". A less polite term, indicative of the social stigma against bastards, is "baseborn", although this term does not apply if both parents are noble. A euphemism for being bastard-born is "being born on the wrong side of the sheets".{{ref|AGOT|34}}

==Family Life and Status==
In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', it is not unexpected for noblemen to have bastard children. While it is not typical for a noble to bring his bastards home and raise them with his own children, it is usually expected that he will see to the child's well-being to some degree.{{Ref|aGoT|6}} A noble-born wife has the right to take insult at her husband's bastards being introduced into her household and being commensurate in rank with her legally-born children.

Bastards whose parents are both of the nobility are referred to as bastard-born, though not baseborn. Even a royal decree will have considerable difficulty in removing the stigma of a bastard{{Ref|TSS}} and trueborn children of a bastard might change their surnames to show their legitimate nature. For example, a legitimate son of a Waters might change his surname to [[House Longwaters|Longwaters]].{{Ref|aFfC|8}}<ref name=SF>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2999/ SF, Targaryens, Valyria, Sansa, Martells, and More (June 26, 2001)]</ref>

At any point, the biological father of a bastard may acknowledge him and bring him formally into his house. King [[Robert I Baratheon]] acknowledged [[Edric Storm]], although the boy was raised at [[Storm's End]].{{ref|ACOK|10}} After the death of [[Domeric Bolton]], Lord [[Roose Bolton]] brought his bastard son, [[Ramsay Snow]], to the [[Dreadfort]], although Roose did not recognize Ramsay as his heir.{{ref|ACOK|16}}{{ref|AWOIAF| Ramsay Snow}}

A more drastic measure is legitimization, a power traditionally reserved to monarchs alone. Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] legitimized the brothers [[Addam Velaryon|Addam]] and [[Alyn Velaryon|Alyn of Hull]] as heirs of Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]].{{ref|TPATQ}} [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] legitimized all of his bastards on his deathbed, both those born by highborn mothers, and baseborn.{{ref|tss}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

Far more often a bastard is acknowledged but not legitimized. For example, [[Eddard Stark]] acknowledged [[Jon Snow]] as his son and a member of [[House Stark]], but did not legitimize him. Snow retained the bastard name of the north and the social status it conferred, and did not enter the line of succession of House Stark. Other bastards, like [[Gendry]], have no idea who their father is, and it might be the case that their father doesn't know about them, either.

In [[Dorne]], bastards are viewed slightly different compared to the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. Especially if the child is born to a [[paramour]], Dornishmen are not that concerned if the child was born in or out of wedlock. Many Dornish noblemen, and even some ladies, have paramours.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Queer Customs of the South}}

In recent times, Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] has fathered [[Sand Snakes|eight bastard daughters]] of five different mothers.{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}} His children are raised at the court of [[Sunspear]], where several are close to the heir of Prince [[Doran Martell]], Princess [[Arianne Martell|Arianne]].{{Ref|AFFC|13}}{{Ref|AFFC|22}} Despite the fact that Oberyn's daughters were born of mothers of variable social stations - [[Obara Sand|Obara]]'s mother was a whore, [[Nymeria Sand|Nymeria]]'s mother a [[Volantis|Volantenese]] noblewoman, [[Tyene Sand|Tyene]]'s mother a septa and [[Sarella Sand|Sarella]]'s mother a trader captain from the [[Summer Islands]] - they appear not to be treated different from [[Elia Sand|Elia]], [[Obella Sand|Obella]], [[Dorea Sand|Dorea]], and [[Loreza Sand|Loreza]], the children he fathered on his recognized paramour, [[Ellaria Sand]].{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}}{{Ref|AFFC|13}}{{Ref|AFFC|40}}

Besides Ellaria there is another known "Sand", [[Daemon Sand]]. They both are the offspring of powerful noblemen; Ellaria is the daughter of Lord [[Harmen Uller]], the head of one of the more [[House Uller|powerful houses]] of Dorne, and Daemon is the son of [[Ryon Allyrion]], the heir to another [[House Allyrion|major house]].{{Ref|ASOS|38}} Their mothers haven't been revealed till now, but both are beloved members of their houses and respected people in Dorne. Ellaria was the paramour of Prince Oberyn{{Ref|ASOS|38}} and Daemon Sand had squired for the prince, and was knighted by him as well.{{Ref|AFFC|24}} In addition, Daemon is described as one of Dorne's finest swords.{{fact}}

==Rights of Inheritance==
The bastardborn have few rights under [[Law and justice|law]] and [[customs|custom]] when it comes to rights of inheritance. A bastard may inherit if the father has no other trueborn children nor any other likely kin to follow him. In {{Date|299}}, after the deaths of Lord [[Halys Hornwood]] and his trueborn son, [[Daryn Hornwood|Daryn]], Halys's natural son [[Larence Snow]] is considered as a potential heir by [[House Hornwood]]s overlords, [[House Stark]].{{Ref|ACOK|16}} A bastard can inherit after being legitimized by a royal decree.{{Ref|ASOS|45}} It is unclear whether a legitimized bastard would be placed in the succession according to birth order, or would be placed at the end, after the trueborn children.<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Hornwood_Inheritance_and_the_Whents The Hornwood Inheritance and the Whents (November 02, 1999)]</ref>

==Social Status==
It is considered rude to pry into the origins of a man's natural children.{{ref|ASOS|73}} It is said that bastards are born from lust and lies, and that their nature is wanton and treacherous.{{ref|AGOT|5}} It is also said that bastards grow up faster than trueborn children.{{Ref|AGOT|5}}{{Ref|AGOT|26}}

A bastard may study at the [[Citadel]] and become a [[maester]]. One such an example is Maester [[Walys]], a former Maester of [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|ADWD|37}} It's also possible for female bastards to join the [[Faith of the Seven]] and become [[Septa]]s, like the bastard daughters of King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] by [[Megette]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} Possibly, this might mean that male bastards could become [[septon]]s.

As any man can be [[knight]]ed, even a bastard. A bastard may even be appointed to the [[Kingsguard]]; two such knights, [[Robert Flowers]] and [[Addison Hill]], rose to become [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]].{{ref|AFFC|16}} In the [[Night's Watch]], any man may rise to command, no matter the circumstances of their birth. Such were the cases of [[Cotter Pyke]], commander of [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]], and [[Robin Hill]] and [[Jon Snow]], who became [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]]s.

===Coat of Arms===
Bastards do not have the right to use the arms of the highborn families they descent from.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} Recognized bastards who take arms (noble born, knighted, etc.) often, but not always, take the [[Heraldry|coat of arms]] of their fathers with the colors reversed.{{Ref|TSS}} A bend sinister is sometimes added, as exemplified by Ser [[Walder Rivers]]'s sigil.{{Ref|aFfC|38}} A bastard that wants to emphasize his filiation and minimize his own bastardy may decide to use the same sigil as his father, as did [[Glendon Flowers]],{{Ref|TMK}} perhaps illegally.{{Ref|THK}}{{Ref|AGOT|7}}

Several examples:
{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House_Targaryen_crest.PNG|75px|''House Targaryen'']]
| [[File:House_Blackfyre_crest.png|75px|''House Blackfyre'']]
|Arms of [[House Blackfyre]], founded by a bastard of the [[House Targaryen]], has the colors reversed.{{ref|TSS}}
|}

{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House Frey.png|75px|''House Frey'']]
| [[File:MiniWalder Rivers.png|75px|'' personnel arms of Walder Rivers'']]
|The personal arms of [[Walder Rivers]], bastard son of Lord [[Walder Frey]], has the Frey colors reversed and a red bend sinister added.{{ref|affc|39}}
|}

{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House_Blackfyre_crest.png|75px|''House Blackfyre'']]
| [[File:Bracken sigil coat.png|75px|''House Bracken'']]
| [[File:COA Aegor Rivers.png|75px|'' personnel arms of Aegor Rivers'']]
|The coat of arms of [[Aegor Rivers]] "Bittersteel", a bastard son of [[Aegon IV Targaryen]]. He has combined the sigils of House Bracken (his mothers house) and House Blackfyre.
|}

==Surnames==
Each of the nine constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms have bastard surnames decreed by custom, not law.<ref name=SF/> Bastards with a high-born parent are given these surnames to hold them apart from their fathers' houses. The parents may give a bastard a different surname if they wish, e.g. [[Tyrion Tanner]]. Bastards with no known relation to a noble house have no surname, like other [[smallfolk]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Region !! Surname !! Example
|-
| [[Crownlands]] || Waters || [[Aurane Waters]]
|-
| [[Dorne]] || Sand || [[Nymeria Sand]]
|-
| [[Iron Islands]] || Pyke || [[Wex Pyke]]
|-
| [[North]] || Snow || [[Jon Snow]]
|-
| [[Reach]] || Flowers || [[Robert Flowers]]
|-
| [[Riverlands]] || Rivers || [[Walder Rivers]]
|-
| [[Stormlands]] || Storm || [[Rolland Storm]]
|-
| [[Vale of Arryn]] || Stone || [[Mya Stone]]
|-
| [[Westerlands]] || Hill || [[Joy Hill]]
|}

The surname a bastard received appears to be connected to the location the child is raised, though this is not a consistent rule. Because of this, bastards who are half-siblings might have different surnames. For example, King [[Robert I Baratheon]]'s eldest bastard, born in the Vale, is called [[Mya Stone|Mya ''Stone'']], while his bastard from the stormlands (fathered on a noblewoman from the [[Reach]]) is called [[Edric Storm|Edric ''Storm'']]. However, whilst [[Aegor Rivers]] was raised at [[Stone Hedge]] in the [[riverlands]], his half-brother [[Brynden Rivers|Brynden]], was also called ''Rivers'', despite having lived at least the first few years of his life with his mother at [[King's Landing]] in the [[Crownlands]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] was believed by King [[Robert I Baratheon]] to be his trueborn son, and therefore heir to [[House Baratheon]] and the [[Iron Throne]]. However, Lord [[Eddard Stark]] discovers that Joffrey, as well as his siblings [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], are actually the bastards of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister]].{{Ref|AGOT|45}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
The revelation of Joffrey's bastardy, as the product of adultery on the part of Queen [[Cersei Lannister]], causes Joffrey's claim to the Iron Throne to be disputed after Robert's death by Robert's eldest brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]].{{Ref|ACOK|Prologue}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Ramsay Snow]]'s official bastard status is removed by a royal decree, as a reward for the [[House Bolton|Boltons]] betraying the [[House Stark|Starks]] and bowing to the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], and he becomes the heir of House Bolton.{{Ref|ASOS|72}}

[[Robb Stark]], as [[King in the North]], planned to legitimize his bastard half-brother [[Jon Snow]] and proclaim him as his heir;{{Ref|ASOS|45}} however, this would only be considered valid by those who supported Robb's claim to be King in the North. Following Robb's death, [[Stannis Baratheon]], having proclaimed himself King of the Seven Kingdoms, also proposes to legitimize Snow and make him Lord of [[Winterfell]],{{Ref|ASOS|76}} but Jon declines Stannis's offer, electing to become [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]] instead.{{Ref|ASOS|79}}

==Notable Bastards==
'''Crownlands'''
* Addam of Hull, legitimised as [[Addam Velaryon]], a dragonrider and heir to [[Driftmark]].
* Alyn of Hull, legitimised as [[Alyn Velaryon]], an admiral and heir to Driftmark after Addam's death.
*[[Tyrion Tanner]], the bastard son of [[Lollys Stokeworth]] and an unknown father, conceived in a riot at [[King's Landing]].
* [[Aurane Waters]], better known as the Bastard of [[Driftmark]]. He was part of Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei's]] small council as the grand admiral and [[master of ships]].
* Ser [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Waters]], later known as Daemon I Blackfyre, was the recognized and legitimised son of King Aegon IV Targaryen and [[Daena Targaryen]]. Founder of [[House Blackfyre]].
* [[Humfrey Waters]], the current Commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]].
* Ser [[Marston Waters]], was a knight of Kings [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]]'s and [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon III]]'s [[Kingsguard]].
* [[Gendry]], an unrecognized bastard of King [[Robert I Baratheon]]. Unaware of his heritage but is the spitting image of Robert when he was young.
* [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon]] are bastards conceived by Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] with her own twin brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], although they are commonly believed to be her legitimate children by King [[Robert I Baratheon]].

'''Dorne'''
*[[Ellaria Sand]], the bastard daughter of Lord [[Harmen Uller]]. She is also the paramour of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]].
*The [[Sand Snakes]] is the collective name for the eight bastard daughters of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]], the Red Viper. They are, in order of age:
**[[Obara Sand]], daughter of an [[Oldtown]] whore.
**[[Nymeria Sand]], called Lady Nym, her mother was a noblewoman from [[Volantis]].
**[[Tyene Sand]], daughter of a [[Faith of the Seven#Septa|septa]].
**[[Sarella Sand]], daughter of a trader from the [[Summer Isles]].
**[[Elia Sand]], called Lady Lance. The oldest daughter of Oberyn's paramour [[Ellaria Sand]], and granddaughter of Lord [[Harmen Uller]].
**[[Obella Sand]], daughter of Ellaria Sand.
**[[Dorea Sand]], daughter of Ellaria Sand.
**[[Loreza Sand]], daughter of Ellaria Sand.
* Ser [[Daemon Sand]], better known as the Bastard of [[Godsgrace]], is the bastard son of [[Ryon Allyrion]].

'''Iron Islands'''
* [[Cotter Pyke]], a member of the Night's Watch and the current Commander of [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]].
* [[Wex Pyke]], the baseborn son of [[Sargon Botley]] and the squire of [[Theon Greyjoy]].

'''North'''
* [[Jon Snow]], the recognized bastard son of Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and 998th [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]].
* [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]], formerly known as Ramsay Snow, the recognized and legitimised son of Lord [[Roose Bolton]]. Commonly known as the Bastard of Bolton or the Bastard of the [[Dreadfort]].
* [[Larence Snow]], the son of Lord [[Halys Hornwood]].

'''The Reach'''
*[[Falia Flowers]], the bastard daughter of Lord [[Humfrey Hewett]].
*Ser [[Franklyn Flowers]], also known as the Bastard of [[Cider Hall]], a knight in service to the [[Golden Company]].
* [[Garrett Flowers]], the bastard son of [[Garth Tyrell]] the Gross. Garse's brother.
*[[Garse Flowers]], the bastard son of Garth the Gross. Garrett's brother.
*Ser [[Glendon Flowers]], mockingly referred to as the Knight of the Pussywillows, claimed to be the son of Ser [[Quentyn Ball]].
*Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]], was the bastard brother of Lord [[Unwin Peake]] and a [[knight]] of King Aegon III's Kingsguard.
*Ser [[Robert Flowers]], a former Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.
*[[Jafer Flowers]], a ranger of the Night's Watch.
*[[Tom Flowers]], also known as the Bastard of [[Bitterbridge]], a bastard of [[House Caswell]] who fought for the [[greens]] in the [[Dance of the Dragons]].
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], the bastard son of a [[House Hightower|Hightower]] girl and an [[archmaester]] of the [[Citadel]]. He served at [[Winterfell]] when Lord [[Rickard Stark]] was head of [[House Stark]].

'''Riverlands'''
* Ser [[Addam Rivers]], claimed the title of [[river king]] or [[King of the Trident]].
* Ser [[Aegor Rivers]], better known as Bittersteel, was the recognized and legitimised son of King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] and [[Barba Bracken]]. Founder of the [[Golden Company]].
* [[Alys Rivers]], was a bedmate of Prince [[Aemond Targaryen]].
* Ser [[Benedict I Justman|Benedict Rivers]], later known as King Benedict I Justman, was a bastard from Houses [[House Blackwood|Blackwood]] and [[House Bracken|Bracken]]. Founder of [[House Justman]] and the first Justman [[King of the Trident]].
* [[Brynden Rivers]], better known as Bloodraven, recognized and legitimized son of King Aegon IV Targaryen and [[Melissa Blackwood]]. Former [[Hand of the King]] and [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]].
* [[Gwenys Rivers]], recognized and legitimized daughter of Aegon IV Targaryen and Melissa Blackwood.
* [[Harry Rivers]], known as the Bastard of Bracken, is the bastard son of Lord [[Jonos Bracken]].
* [[Mya Rivers]], recognized and legitimized daughter of Aegon IV Targaryen and Melissa Blackwood.
* [[Robb Rivers|Red Robb Rivers]], also known as the Bowman of [[Raventree]], was a bastard of [[House Blackwood]].
* Ser [[Samwell Rivers]], the bastard son of Lord [[Tommen Tully]].
* Ser [[Tristan Rivers]], an exiled knight in service to the [[Golden Company]].
* Ser [[Walder Rivers]], recognized eldest bastard son of Lord [[Walder Frey]].

'''Stormlands'''
*The [[Bastard of Blackhaven]], of [[House Dondarrion]], who fought and perished in the [[Last Storm]] during [[Aegon's Conquest]].
*[[Cedrik Storm]], also known as the Bastard of [[Bronzegate]].
*[[Edric Storm]], the acknowledged bastard son of King [[Robert I Baratheon]] and [[Delena Florent]].
*Ser [[Rolland Storm]], better known as the Bastard of [[Nightsong]], is the baseborn son of Lord [[Bryen Caron]].
*[[Ronald Storm]], the bastard son of Ser [[Ronnet Connington]].
*King [[Ronard Storm]], called Ronard the Bastard, who usurped his [[Morden II Durrandon|half-brother's]] rule and ruled for a stable thirty years.

'''Vale of Arryn'''
* ''[[Alayne Stone]]'', the bastard daughter of [[Petyr Baelish]], actually a false identity assumed by [[Sansa Stark]].
* [[Mya Stone]], the eldest bastard of King [[Robert Baratheon]]. (While she is not officially recognized, she is somewhat openly known to be the king's baseborn daughter.)
* Ser [[Samwell Stone]], better known as Strong Sam Stone, is the master-at-arms at [[Runestone]].

'''Westerlands'''
* Ser [[Addison Hill]], also known as the Bastard of [[Cornfield]], a former [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]].
* [[Joy Hill]], the recognized daughter of [[Gerion Lannister]].
* "Sweet" [[Donnel Hill]], who claims to be a bastard of the Lannisters.
* ''Hugor Hill'', a bastard named in analogy of the mythical [[Hugor of the Hill]], actually a false identity assumed by [[Tyrion Lannister]]
* [[Lynora Hill]], the bastard daughter of [[Jason Lannister (son of Gerold)|Jason Lannister]] and a serving girl.
* [[Robin Hill]], considered one of the worst Lord Commanders of the Night's Watch.
* Ser [[Tyler Hill]], also known as the Bastard of [[Lannisport]], fought for the [[greens]] in the Dance of the Dragons.

==Quotes==
{{Quote|The old [[High Septon]] told [[Maekar I Targaryen|my father]] that king's laws are one thing, and the laws of the gods another. Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by [[Father (the Seven)|the Father]] and [[Mother (the Seven)|the Mother]], but bastards are born of lust and weakness, he said. King [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon]] decreed that his bastards were not bastards, but he could not change their nature. The High Septon said all bastards are born to betrayal ...{{Ref|TSS}}}} - [[Aegon V Targaryen|Egg]] to [[Duncan]]

{{Quote|Your mother was milking goats the first time I gave her my seed.{{Ref|aGoT|59}}}}
– [[Walder Frey]], to [[Ryger Rivers]]

{{Quote|Go away, I wanted only Freys up here, the [[Robb Stark|King in the North]] has no interest in base stock.{{Ref|asos|49}}}}
– [[Walder Frey]], to little [[Walda Rivers (daughter of Aemon)|Walda Rivers]]

{{Quote|[[Orys Baratheon]] was a baseborn half brother to [[Aegon I Targaryen|Lord Aegon]], it was whispered, and the [[Argilac Durrandon|Storm King]] would not dishonor his daughter by giving her hand to a bastard. The very suggestion enraged him.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}}}
- Archmaester [[Gyldayn]]

{{Quote|Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous. Once Jon had meant to prove them wrong, to show [[Eddard Stark|his lord father]] he could as good a true son as [[Robb Stark]].{{ref|asos|73}}}}
– [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|Well, [[Aerion Brightflame]] did not stay in [[Lys]] all his life, only a few years. He may have fathered a few [[bastard]]s there, which would mean [[Daenerys Targaryen|Dany]] has "relatives" of a sort in Lys... but they would be very distant relatives, from the wrong side of the blanket.<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Many_Questions/ Many Questions (October 14, 1998)]</ref>}} - [[George R. R. Martin]]

==References and Notes==
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Florys the Fox

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'''Florys the Fox''' is a legendary daughter of [[Garth Greenhand]] and the cleverest of his children. According to myth, she kept three husbands, each ignorant of the existence of the other two. Her sons became the founders of [[House Florent]], [[House Ball]] and [[House Peake]]. In some tales of the [[Reach]], [[Lann the Clever]] was a [[bastard]] born to Florys or her sister [[Rowan Gold-Tree]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}}

==References and Notes==
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House Peake

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'''House Peake of Starpike''' is a noble house from [[Starpike]] in the [[Reach]]. They blazon their arms with three black castles on orange.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> The three black castles on their arms symbolize the three castles that House Peake once owned: [[Starpike]], [[Dunstonbury]], and [[Whitegrove]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} Their motto has yet to appear.

The Peakes are [[Marcher lords]] from the [[Dornish Marches]].<ref>According to the [http://www.historyofwesteros.com/concarolinas-westerlands-reading/ ConCarolinas westerlands reading], King [[Maekar I Targaryen]] was slain at Starpike, while ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' states Maekar was killed fighting a rebellious lord on the Dornish Marches.</ref>

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
House Peake is an ancient house of [[First Men]] origin. According to tales from the Reach, the Peakes, [[House Florent|Florents]], and the [[House Ball|Balls]] are each descend from one of the three husbands of [[Florys the Fox]], a daughter of [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Garth Greenhand}}

The Peakes were historical rivals with [[House Manderly]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} During the reign of the [[House Gardener|Gardener kings]] in the Reach, King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne the Fat]] persuaded Lords Manderly and Peake to accept his judgment on their quarrel and do fealty for their lands, without having to fight a single battle.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Gardener Kings}}

Near the end of the long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth Greybeard]], a problem arose with the succession as Garth had sired no sons and only daughters, one of whom had married Lord Manderly, and another to Lord Peake. Both lords were determined that their own wife should succeed to the throne, and the rivalry between them was marked by betrayal, conspiracy and murder, and finally escalated into open war with other lords joining the cause on both sides. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and Manderlys. Ser Osmund then placed a distant cousin of the late Garth Greybeard on the throne who ascended as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF}}

House Manderly was driven into exile from the Reach by Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderly's swelling power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Kings of Winter}} This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderly's seat of [[Dunstonbury]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Kings of Winter}}

===Targaryen Era===
During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Lord [[Unwin Peake]] supported the [[greens]]. He took command of the green army from the Reach after the [[Second Battle of Tumbleton]] and led its retreat.{{ref|tpatq}} After the death of Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], Lord Unwin was given a position as one of King [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Regency of Aegon III|regents]]. He eventually became [[Hand of the King]], which he later resigned when the king would not marry his daughter.{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}

Lord [[Gormon Peake]] was a fierce supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and was considered one of the finest [[knight]]s during the reign of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]]. After they chose the side of [[House Blackfyre]] in the failed [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], they had two of their castles stripped from them, leaving them only Starpike.{{ref|tmk}} Gormon was a part of [[Daemon II Blackfyre]]'s entourage at the [[Whitewalls]] [[Whitewalls tourney|tourney]] in {{Date|211}}, and was subsequently executed for treason.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}

The Peakes rose against the [[Iron Throne]] in the [[Peake Uprising]] in {{Date|233}}. King [[Maekar I Targaryen]]'s helm was crushed by a rock hurled from the battlements of Starpike. Lord [[Robert Reyne]] and Ser [[Tywald Lannister]] were also killed in the [[Storming of Starpike]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Lannister Under the Dragons}} In the aftermath of Starpike, [[Roger Reyne]], the new [[Lord of Castamere]] took vengeance for his father Robert's death by slaughtering seven captive Peakes before Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] prevented him from harming others.<ref name=sample>''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'': The Westerlands (unabridged). [http://www.georgerrmartin.com/world-of-ice-and-fire-sample/ georgerrmartin.com]</ref>

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lord [[Titus Peake]] is married to [[Margot Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ser [[Laswell Peake|Laswell]], [[Torman Peake|Torman]], and [[Pykewood Peake]] are exiles in the [[Golden Company]] in support of [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]]. Laswell is sent to capture [[Rain House]].{{ref|ADWD|61}}

==House Peake at the end of the third century==
The known Peakes during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord [[Titus Peake]], Lord of [[Starpike]].{{ref|asos|appendix}}{{ref|affc|appendix}}{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
** Lady [[Margot Lannister]], his wife.{{ref|asos|appendix}}

With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:

* Ser [[Laswell Peake]], a [[knight]]. An exile lord serving with the [[Golden Company]].{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Torman Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Pykewood Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}

==Historical Members==
* Lord [[Lorimar Peake]], who drove [[House Manderly]] from the [[Reach]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]].
* Lord [[Unwin Peake]], supported [[Aegon II Targaryen]] and the [[greens]] during [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|tpatq}} Later a [[Regent]] and [[Hand of the King]] for [[Aegon III Targaryen]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon III}}
** Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]], Lord Unwin's [[bastard]] half-brother, a [[knight]] of [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}
* Lord [[Gormon Peake]], known as ''"Gormy"'', supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and his son [[Daemon II Blackfyre]].

==Behind the Scenes==
House Peake is a reference by [[George R. R. Martin]] to the books of [[w:Mervyn Peake|Mervyn Peake]]. Titus Groan is the main character of the ''[[w:Gormenghast (series)|Gormenghast]]'' trilogy.

==References and Notes==
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House Peake

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'''House Peake of Starpike''' is a noble house from [[Starpike]] in the [[Reach]]. They blazon their arms with three black castles on orange.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> The three black castles on their arms symbolize the three castles that House Peake once owned: [[Starpike]], [[Dunstonbury]], and [[Whitegrove]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} Their motto has yet to appear.

The Peakes are [[Marcher lords]] from the [[Dornish Marches]].<ref>According to the [http://www.historyofwesteros.com/concarolinas-westerlands-reading/ ConCarolinas westerlands reading], King [[Maekar I Targaryen]] was slain at Starpike, while ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' states Maekar was killed fighting a rebellious lord on the Dornish Marches.</ref>

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
House Peake is an ancient house of [[First Men]] origin. According to tales from the Reach, the Peakes, [[House Florent|Florents]], and the [[House Ball|Balls]] are each descend from one of the three husbands of [[Florys the Fox]], a daughter of [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Garth Greenhand}}

The Peakes were historical rivals with [[House Manderly]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} During the reign of the [[House Gardener|Gardener kings]] in the Reach, King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne the Fat]] persuaded Lords Manderly and Peake to accept his judgment on their quarrel and do fealty for their lands, without having to fight a single battle.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Gardener Kings}}

Near the end of the long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth Greybeard]], a problem arose with the succession as Garth had sired no sons and only daughters, one of whom had married Lord Manderly, and another to Lord Peake. Both lords were determined that their own wife should succeed to the throne, and the rivalry between them was marked by betrayal, conspiracy and murder, and finally escalated into open war with other lords joining the cause on both sides. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and Manderlys. Ser Osmund then placed a distant cousin of the late Garth Greybeard on the throne who ascended as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF}}

House Manderly was driven into exile from the Reach by Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderly's swelling power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Kings of Winter}} This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderly's seat of [[Dunstonbury]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Kings of Winter}}

===Targaryen Era===
During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Lord [[Unwin Peake]] supported the [[greens]]. He took command of the green army from the Reach after the [[Second Battle of Tumbleton]] and led its retreat.{{ref|tpatq}} After the death of Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], Lord Unwin was given a position as one of King [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Regency of Aegon III|regents]]. He eventually became [[Hand of the King]], which he later resigned when the king would not marry his daughter.{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}

Lord [[Gormon Peake]] was a fierce supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and was considered one of the finest [[knight]]s during the reign of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]]. After they chose the side of [[House Blackfyre]] in the failed [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], they had two of their castles stripped from them, leaving them only Starpike.{{ref|tmk}} Gormon was a part of [[Daemon II Blackfyre]]'s entourage at the [[Whitewalls]] [[Whitewalls tourney|tourney]] in {{Date|211}}, and was subsequently executed for treason.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}

The Peakes rose against the [[Iron Throne]] in the [[Peake Uprising]] in {{Date|233}}. King [[Maekar I Targaryen]]'s helm was crushed by a rock hurled from the battlements of Starpike. Lord [[Robert Reyne]] and Ser [[Tywald Lannister]] were also killed in the [[Storming of Starpike]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Lannister Under the Dragons}} In the aftermath of Starpike, [[Roger Reyne]], the new [[Lord of Castamere]] took vengeance for his father Robert's death by slaughtering seven captive Peakes before Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] prevented him from harming others.<ref name=sample/>

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lord [[Titus Peake]] is married to [[Margot Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ser [[Laswell Peake|Laswell]], [[Torman Peake|Torman]], and [[Pykewood Peake]] are exiles in the [[Golden Company]] in support of [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]]. Laswell is sent to capture [[Rain House]].{{ref|ADWD|61}}

==House Peake at the end of the third century==
The known Peakes during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord [[Titus Peake]], Lord of [[Starpike]].{{ref|asos|appendix}}{{ref|affc|appendix}}{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
** Lady [[Margot Lannister]], his wife.{{ref|asos|appendix}}

With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:

* Ser [[Laswell Peake]], a [[knight]]. An exile lord serving with the [[Golden Company]].{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Torman Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Pykewood Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}

==Historical Members==
* Lord [[Lorimar Peake]], who drove [[House Manderly]] from the [[Reach]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]].
* Lord [[Unwin Peake]], supported [[Aegon II Targaryen]] and the [[greens]] during [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|tpatq}} Later a [[Regent]] and [[Hand of the King]] for [[Aegon III Targaryen]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon III}}
** Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]], Lord Unwin's [[bastard]] half-brother, a [[knight]] of [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}
* Lord [[Gormon Peake]], known as ''"Gormy"'', supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and his son [[Daemon II Blackfyre]].

==Behind the Scenes==
House Peake is a reference by [[George R. R. Martin]] to the books of [[w:Mervyn Peake|Mervyn Peake]]. Titus Groan is the main character of the ''[[w:Gormenghast (series)|Gormenghast]]'' trilogy.

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

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House Peake

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| Current_Lord = [[Titus Peake]]
| Region = [[Reach]]
| Title = Lord of [[Starpike]]
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'''House Peake of Starpike''' is a noble house from [[Starpike]] in the [[Reach]]. They blazon their arms with three black castles on orange.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> The three black castles on their arms symbolize the three castles that House Peake once owned: [[Starpike]], [[Dunstonbury]], and [[Whitegrove]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} Their motto has yet to appear.

The Peakes are [[Marcher lords]] from the [[Dornish Marches]].<ref>According to the [http://www.historyofwesteros.com/concarolinas-westerlands-reading/ ConCarolinas westerlands reading], King [[Maekar I Targaryen]] was slain at Starpike, while ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' states Maekar was killed fighting a rebellious lord on the Dornish Marches.</ref>

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
House Peake is an ancient house of [[First Men]] origin. According to tales from the Reach, the Peakes, [[House Florent|Florents]], and the [[House Ball|Balls]] are each descend from one of the three husbands of [[Florys the Fox]], a daughter of [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Garth Greenhand}}

The Peakes were historical rivals with [[House Manderly]].{{ref|TWOIAF}} During the reign of the [[House Gardener|Gardener kings]] in the Reach, King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne the Fat]] persuaded Lords Manderly and Peake to accept his judgment on their quarrel and do fealty for their lands, without having to fight a single battle.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Gardener Kings}}

Near the end of the long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth Greybeard]], a problem arose with the succession as Garth had sired no sons and only daughters, one of whom had married Lord Manderly, and another to Lord Peake. Both lords were determined that their own wife should succeed to the throne, and the rivalry between them was marked by betrayal, conspiracy and murder, and finally escalated into open war with other lords joining the cause on both sides. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and Manderlys. Ser Osmund then placed a distant cousin of the late Garth Greybeard on the throne who ascended as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF}}

House Manderly was driven into exile from the Reach by Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderly's swelling power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Kings of Winter}} This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderly's seat of [[Dunstonbury]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Kings of Winter}}

===Targaryen Era===
During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Lord [[Unwin Peake]] supported the [[greens]]. He took command of the green army from the Reach after the [[Second Battle of Tumbleton]] and led its retreat.{{ref|tpatq}} After the death of Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], Lord Unwin was given a position as one of King [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Regency of Aegon III|regents]]. He eventually became [[Hand of the King]], which he later resigned when the king would not marry his daughter.{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}

Lord [[Gormon Peake]] was a fierce supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and was considered one of the finest [[knight]]s during the reign of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]]. After they chose the side of [[House Blackfyre]] in the failed [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], they had two of their castles stripped from them, leaving them only Starpike.{{ref|tmk}} Gormon was a part of [[Daemon II Blackfyre]]'s entourage at the [[Whitewalls]] [[Whitewalls tourney|tourney]] in {{Date|211}}, and was subsequently executed for treason.{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}

King [[Maekar I Targaryen]], Lord [[Robert Reyne]], and Ser [[Tywald Lannister]] were slain during the [[Peake Uprising]] in {{Date|233}}.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Lannister Under the Dragons}} In the aftermath, [[Roger Reyne]], the new [[Lord of Castamere]] took vengeance for his father Robert's death by slaughtering seven captive Peakes before Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] prevented him from harming others.<ref name=sample/>

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lord [[Titus Peake]] is married to [[Margot Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ser [[Laswell Peake|Laswell]], [[Torman Peake|Torman]], and [[Pykewood Peake]] are exiles in the [[Golden Company]] in support of [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]]. Laswell is sent to capture [[Rain House]].{{ref|ADWD|61}}

==House Peake at the end of the third century==
The known Peakes during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord [[Titus Peake]], Lord of [[Starpike]].{{ref|asos|appendix}}{{ref|affc|appendix}}{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
** Lady [[Margot Lannister]], his wife.{{ref|asos|appendix}}

With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there are also:

* Ser [[Laswell Peake]], a [[knight]]. An exile lord serving with the [[Golden Company]].{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Torman Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
* [[Pykewood Peake]], his brother. An exile serving with the Golden Company.{{ref|adwd|appendix}}

==Historical Members==
* Lord [[Lorimar Peake]], who drove [[House Manderly]] from the [[Reach]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]].
* Lord [[Unwin Peake]], supported [[Aegon II Targaryen]] and the [[greens]] during [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|tpatq}} Later a [[Regent]] and [[Hand of the King]] for [[Aegon III Targaryen]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon III}}
** Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]], Lord Unwin's [[bastard]] half-brother, a [[knight]] of [[Aegon III Targaryen]]'s [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|twoiaf| Aegon III}}
* Lord [[Gormon Peake]], known as ''"Gormy"'', supporter of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]] and his son [[Daemon II Blackfyre]].

==Behind the Scenes==
House Peake is a reference by [[George R. R. Martin]] to the books of [[w:Mervyn Peake|Mervyn Peake]]. Titus Groan is the main character of the ''[[w:Gormenghast (series)|Gormenghast]]'' trilogy.

==References and Notes==
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Coming of the Andals

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The '''Andal invasion''' was a migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago, and some [[maesters]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe that the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]], the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain, and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]]. The Andal [[Erreg]] [[Kinslaying|the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the [[children of the forest]] of the riverlands, and killed all the children and their First Men allies, and cut down its grove of [[Weirwood|weirwoods]] trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd|Tristifer IV]] of [[House Mudd]]. The [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside him in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at the Mudds seat; [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven Andal kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tully}} Tristifer's heir; [[Tristifer V Mudd]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd's kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals.}}

During their conquest the Andals burned out all the weirwood groves and slew the children of the forest when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
[[File:Andal Invasion.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

At the beginning of the Andal invasion, when the Andals first began crossing the [[Narrow Sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was [[Storm King]] of [[House Durrandon]]. He took little interest of the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time. He died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings of House Durrandon won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

When the Andals conquered part of [[Cape Wrath]], to prevent them conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of [[Storm's End]]. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the Faith of the Seven.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
The Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]] much as they were the lands of the narrow sea, but they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]]; [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], turned back the greatest of these threats, making common cause with the [[House Bolton]] to crush the warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] and his Andals at the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. In the aftermath of his victory, King Theon raised his own fleet and crossed the narrow sea to the shores of [[Andalos]], with Argos's corpse lashed to the prow of his flagship. There he took a bloody vengeance, burning scores of villages, capturing three tower houses and a fortified sept putting thousands to the sword in the process. The heads of the slain the Hungry Wolf claimed as prizes, carrying them back to [[Westeros]] and planting them on spikes along his own coasts as a warning to other would be conquerors.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most native kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. The [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] observed from afar the fighting in the Vale and then as it spread to the stormlands and riverlands. In the meantime, they prepared the defenses of the Kingdom of the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}} King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought aid from the children of the forest, while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to see to their own defenses. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead to repulse the Andals. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]; [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]], who each followed one another on the [[Oakenseat]]. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all Three Sage Kings accepted Andal [[knight]]s and retainers into their service; Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}} The Three Sage Kings also granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andal petty kings and adventurers, and converted from worship of the old gods to the Faith of the Seven. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign. Merle I helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. {{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]], set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade. Lord [[Damon Hightower]], was the first to accept the Faith of the Seven and, after his premature death, his son Lord [[Triston Hightower]] was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]] who ruled Oldtown in all but name for twenty years, and ultimately became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston's son, Lord [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}}

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. As the centuries passed the noble houses of [[First Men]] and Andals intermarried so freely that it become impossible to tell them apart. Though some of the new-made lords broke their vows in later years, most remained loyal and helped their kings and liege lords put down the rebels and also defend the Reach from later invading Andal petty kings and warbands.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

[[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
It was a thousand years after first landing on the fingers in the Vale that the Andals finally turned their attention to the Iron Islands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the [[Iron Islands]], often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}}

King [[Rognar II Greyiron]] was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]], [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became [[King of the Iron Islands]] by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord. The Hoare dynasty were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals and tolerating the Faith.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}} The new religion never took hold in the Iron Islands, however, and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} and the concept of [[Knight|chivalry]] to Westeros.

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]];{{ref|AGOT|66}} the [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations.

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. At this time [[Dorne]] was left as a confederation of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
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Coming of the Andals

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The '''Andal invasion''' was a migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago, and some [[maesters]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe that the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]], the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain, and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]]. The Andal [[Erreg]] [[Kinslaying|the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the [[children of the forest]] of the [[riverlands]], and killed all the children and their First Men allies, and cut down its grove of [[Weirwood|weirwoods]] trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd|Tristifer IV]] of [[House Mudd]]. The [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside him in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at the Mudds seat; [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven [[Andals|Andal]] kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tully}} Tristifer's heir; [[Tristifer V Mudd]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd's kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals.}}

During their conquest the Andals burned out all the [[weirwood]] groves and slew the [[children of the forest]] when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
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At the beginning of the Andal invasion, when the Andals first began crossing the [[Narrow Sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was [[Storm King]] of [[House Durrandon]]. He took little interest of the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time. He died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings of House Durrandon won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

When the Andals conquered part of [[Cape Wrath]], to prevent them conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of [[Storm's End]]. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the Faith of the Seven.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
The Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]] much as they were the lands of the narrow sea, but they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]]; [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], turned back the greatest of these threats, making common cause with the [[House Bolton]] to crush the warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] and his Andals at the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. In the aftermath of his victory, King Theon raised his own fleet and crossed the narrow sea to the shores of [[Andalos]], with Argos's corpse lashed to the prow of his flagship. There he took a bloody vengeance, burning scores of villages, capturing three tower houses and a fortified sept putting thousands to the sword in the process. The heads of the slain the Hungry Wolf claimed as prizes, carrying them back to [[Westeros]] and planting them on spikes along his own coasts as a warning to other would be conquerors.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most native kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. The [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] observed from afar the fighting in the Vale and then as it spread to the stormlands and riverlands. In the meantime, they prepared the defenses of the Kingdom of the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}} King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought aid from the children of the forest, while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to see to their own defenses. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead to repulse the Andals. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]; [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]], who each followed one another on the [[Oakenseat]]. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all Three Sage Kings accepted Andal [[knight]]s and retainers into their service; Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}} The Three Sage Kings also granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andal petty kings and adventurers, and converted from worship of the old gods to the Faith of the Seven. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign. Merle I helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. {{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]], set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade. Lord [[Damon Hightower]], was the first to accept the Faith of the Seven and, after his premature death, his son Lord [[Triston Hightower]] was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]] who ruled Oldtown in all but name for twenty years, and ultimately became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston's son, Lord [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}}

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. As the centuries passed the noble houses of [[First Men]] and Andals intermarried so freely that it become impossible to tell them apart. Though some of the new-made lords broke their vows in later years, most remained loyal and helped their kings and liege lords put down the rebels and also defend the Reach from later invading Andal petty kings and warbands.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

[[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
It was a thousand years after first landing on the fingers in the Vale that the Andals finally turned their attention to the Iron Islands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the [[Iron Islands]], often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}}

King [[Rognar II Greyiron]] was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]], [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became [[King of the Iron Islands]] by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord. The Hoare dynasty were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals and tolerating the Faith.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}} The new religion never took hold in the Iron Islands, however, and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} and the concept of [[Knight|chivalry]] to Westeros.

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]];{{ref|AGOT|66}} the [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations.

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. At this time [[Dorne]] was left as a confederation of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
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Three Sage Kings

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The '''Three Sage Kings''' were a trio of wise and cunning [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] from [[House Gardener]] who followed one another on the [[Oakenseat]] and who dealt with the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Reach]] long after the fall of the [[Vale]] and the [[riverlands]] and [[stormlands]]. Instead of armed resistance they took a policy of accord and assimilation toward the [[Andals]]. They were [[Garth IX Gardener]], his son [[Merle I Gardener]], and his grandson - Merle's son - [[Gwayne V Gardener]].

Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him one of his counselors, also building the first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]], though he continued to worship the [[old gods]]. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the Faith and the first to be made a [[knight]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Both Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal maidens as their wives to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm, and all three took Andals into their service as knights and retainers; Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}. All Three Sage kings bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. As the centuries passed the noble houses of [[First Men]] and Andals intermarried so freely that it become impossible to tell them apart.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Gardeners sought after Andal craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and stonemasons, and encouraged their lords bannermen to do the same. Thus the First Men of the Reach learned to arm ad armor themselves in iron instead of bronze and strengthen their castles with Andal masonry.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Though some of the new-made lords broke their vows in later years, most remained loyal and helped their kings and liege lords put down the rebels and also defend the Reach from invading Andal petty kings and warbands.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

[[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

==Quotes==

{{Quote|When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flock when the pack comes ravening.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}}} - King [[Garth IX Gardener]].

{{Quote|They gave us seven gods, we gave them dirt and daughters, and our sons and grandsons shall be as brothers.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}}} - King [[Gwayne V Gardener]].

==References and Notes==
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Coming of the Andals

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The '''Andal invasion''' was a migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago, and some [[maesters]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe that the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Riverlands===
[[File:Tristifer.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|[[Tristifer IV Mudd]] is defeated in his hundredth and final battle.]]
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]], the [[Widow's Ford]] where Lord [[House Darry|Darry's]] three sons held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain, and the events of the night in the [[White Wood]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]]. The Andal [[Erreg]] [[Kinslaying|the Kinslayer]] attacked [[High Heart]], a sacred place to the [[children of the forest]] of the [[riverlands]], and killed all the children and their First Men allies, and cut down its grove of [[Weirwood|weirwoods]] trees.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

The greatest of the [[river kings]] to oppose the Andals was King [[Tristifer IV Mudd|Tristifer IV]] of [[House Mudd]]. The [[House Tully|Tullys]] fought alongside him in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When [[Roland II Arryn]], the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]] into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at the Mudds seat; [[Oldstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Eyrie}} Tristifer was defeated in his hundredth and final battle, where seven [[Andals|Andal]] kings attacked simultaneously and defeated him; the greatest of these conquerors was [[Armistead Vance]].{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tully}} Tristifer's heir; [[Tristifer V Mudd]] was unable to stem the Andal tide and failed to hold his own people together, and so the Mudd's kingdom fell to the Andals. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals.}}

During their conquest the Andals burned out all the [[weirwood]] groves and slew the [[children of the forest]] when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
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At the beginning of the Andal invasion, when the Andals first began crossing the [[Narrow Sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was [[Storm King]] of [[House Durrandon]]. He took little interest of the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time. He died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings of House Durrandon won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

When the Andals conquered part of [[Cape Wrath]], to prevent them conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of [[Storm's End]]. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the Faith of the Seven.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
The Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]] much as they were the lands of the narrow sea, but they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]]; [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], turned back the greatest of these threats, making common cause with the [[House Bolton]] to crush the warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] and his Andals at the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. In the aftermath of his victory, King Theon raised his own fleet and crossed the narrow sea to the shores of [[Andalos]], with Argos's corpse lashed to the prow of his flagship. There he took a bloody vengeance, burning scores of villages, capturing three tower houses and a fortified sept putting thousands to the sword in the process. The heads of the slain the Hungry Wolf claimed as prizes, carrying them back to [[Westeros]] and planting them on spikes along his own coasts as a warning to other would be conquerors.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most native kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. In the meantime, the [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] prepared the defense of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}} King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to see to their own defenses. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead to repulse the Andals. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]; [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]], who each followed one another on the [[Oakenseat]]. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all Three Sage Kings accepted Andal [[knight]]s and retainers into their service; Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}. The Three Sage Kings also granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andal petty kings and adventurers, and converted from worship of the old gods to the Faith. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign. Merle I helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]], set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade. [[Damon Hightower]], was the first to accept the Faith and, after his premature death, his son [[Triston Hightower]] was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]] who ruled Oldtown in all but name for twenty years, and ultimately became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston's son, [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}}

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. As the centuries passed the noble houses of [[First Men]] and Andal intermarried so freely that it become impossible to tell them apart. Though some of the new-made lords broke their vows in later years, most remained loyal and helped their kings and liege lords put down the rebels and also defend the Reach from later invading Andal petty kings and warbands.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

[[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
It was a thousand years after first landing on the fingers in the Vale that the Andals finally turned their attention to the Iron Islands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the [[Iron Islands]], often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}}

King [[Rognar II Greyiron]] was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]], [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became [[King of the Iron Islands]] by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord. The Hoare dynasty were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals and tolerating the Faith.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}} The new religion never took hold in the Iron Islands, however, and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} and the concept of [[Knight|chivalry]] to Westeros.

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]];{{ref|AGOT|66}} the [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations.

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. At this time [[Dorne]] was left as a confederation of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
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Roland II Arryn

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'''Roland II Arryn''' was a [[King of Mountain and Vale]] from [[House Arryn]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Vale}}

==Character==
Roland was haughty and bellicose.{{ref|twoiaf| The Vale}}

==History==
Roland II was the great-grandson of King [[Roland I Arryn|Roland I]], who first started constructing the [[Eyrie]]. He was a man whose passions were not building, but war and wenching. As the cost of building the Eyrie had become too much, he had need for money to finance a campaign in the [[riverlands]]. So it came to be that all work on the Eyrie was halted for the better part of four years.{{ref|twoiaf| The Vale}}

Conquests proved harder to achieve and after small victories over petty kings, King Roland found himself facing [[Tristifer IV Mudd]], the Hammer of Justice, the last great king of the [[First Men]]. However, Roland's forces were shattered by Tristifer's rivermen. After fleeing to one of his allies, the King of Mountain and Vale found himself betrayed and delivered back to Tristifer in chains. Four years after leaving the Vale, King Roland II was beheaded at [[Oldstones]], the seat of [[House Mudd]], by Tristifer. Few mourned his passing. He was succeeded by his younger brother, [[Robin Arryn]], who resumed work on the Eyrie. {{ref|twoiaf| The Vale}}

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Coming of the Andals

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The '''Andal invasion''' was a migration of the [[Andals]] from [[Essos]] to [[Westeros]]. The time when this occurred is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago, and some [[maesters]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}} The migration was often violent. Many of the petty kingdoms of the [[First Men]] were destroyed and the [[children of the forest]] were pushed back to the [[north]]. However, sometimes the takeover was more peaceful with intermarriage between Andals and First Men.

==Invasion==
The [[Andals]] were the first new invaders after the [[First Men]] had made their [[Pact]] with the [[children of the forest]] and lived in harmony with them for four thousand years. The Andals came from the hills of [[Andalos]] in [[Essos]]. They were tall and fair-haired warriors who carried steel weapons and the seven-pointed star of their gods painted on their bodies.{{Ref|aGoT|40}}{{Ref|aGoT|66}} Their religion, the [[Faith of the Seven]], teaches that the Seven promised [[Hugor of the Hill]] and his Andals kingdoms in a foreign land, which led to them sailing to Westeros. [[Maesters]] instead believe that the Andals traveled west under pressure from the expanding [[Freehold of Valyria]]. The Andals wielded iron in contrast to the bronze of the First Men, who worshipped the [[old gods]]. The First Men were gradually defeated in generational wars over hundreds of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Vale===
The [[Fingers]] in what is now the [[Vale of Arryn]] was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.{{Ref|aSoS|68}} The First Men of the Vale were ruled by numerous petty kings, some of whom allied with the Andals instead of resisting them. The [[House Shell (Vale)|Shells]] and [[House Brightstone|Brightstones]] were betrayed by Andal allies, and the Andal [[House Corbray|Corbrays]] claimed the Fingers. The [[House Shett|Shetts]] of [[Gulltown]] allied with the Andal [[House Grafton|Graftons]] against the [[House Royce|Royces]], but their conflict ended with Gulltown controlled by the Andals.

King [[Yorwyck VI Royce]] and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King [[Robar II Royce]] gained the support of the [[House Redfort|Redforts]], [[House Hunter|Hunters]], [[House Belmore|Belmores]], [[House Coldwater|Coldwaters]], and [[House Upcliff|Upcliffs]]. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the [[Hammer of the Hills]]. However, Robar's army was routed in the [[Battle of the Seven Stars]], and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of [[House Arryn]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Vale}} Those First Men who did not submit to the Arryns fled into the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and became the [[Vale mountain clans]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

===Riverlands===
After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the [[Bloody Gate]] or sailed up the [[Trident]] into the [[riverlands]], where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the [[Fall of Maidenpool]] and the death of its young king [[Florian V Mooton]], the [[Widow's Ford]] where three sons of Lord [[House Darry|Darry]] held off [[Vorian Vypren]] and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain, of the [[White Wood]], and [[High Heart]]. The [[House Blackwood|Blackwoods]] and [[House Bracken|Brackens]] allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal [[knight]]s and seven [[septon]]s, at the great [[Battle of Bitter River]].

The last of the First Men [[river kings]], the [[House Mudd|Mudds]], were brought down by an alliance of petty Andal kings. To avoid being slaughtered, many of the First Men houses submitted and intermarried with the Andals.

During their conquest the Andals burned out all the [[weirwood]] groves and slew the [[children of the forest]] when they found them,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} believing them abominations, although ''[[True History]]'' states the children had already fled the riverlands before the Andals invaded.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, [[House Justman]] was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

===Stormlands===
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At the beginning of the Andal invasion, when the Andals first began crossing the [[Narrow Sea]], [[Erich VII Durrandon|Erich the Unready]] was [[Storm King]] of [[House Durrandon]]. He took little interest of the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time. He died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to [[Blackwater Bay]] and the [[stormlands]]. The Andal [[Togarion Bar Emmon]] allied with the First Men of [[House Massey]] and expelled the stormlanders from [[Massey's Hook]] and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King [[Qarlton II Durrandon|Qarlton the Conqueror]], was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, [[Qarlton III Durrandon|Qarlton III]] and [[Monfryd V Durrandon|Monfryd V]], would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings of House Durrandon won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great [[Battle of Bronzegate]] when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the [[Holy Brotherhood of the Andals]] at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].

When the Andals conquered part of [[Cape Wrath]], to prevent them conquering all of the the [[rainwood]], King [[Baldric I Durrandon|Baldric the Cunning]] manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords into attacking each other. King [[Durran XXI Durrandon|Durran XXI]] allied with the children of the forest, and this [[Weirwood Alliance]] achieved victories over the Andals at [[Black Bog]], the [[Misty Wood]], and the [[Howling Hill]], and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King [[Cleoden I Durrandon|Cleoden I]] allied with three [[Dorne|Dornish]] kings and defeated the Andal [[Drox|Drox the Corpsemaker]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of [[Storm's End]]. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King [[Maldon IV Durrandon|Maldon IV]] and his son, [[Durran XXIV Durrandon|Durran XXIV]], married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King [[Ormund III Durrandon|Ormund III]] and his queen converted to the Faith of the Seven.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}}

===The North===
The Andals attacked the eastern shores of the [[north]] much as they were the lands of the narrow sea, but they were aggressively met by the [[Kings of Winter]]; [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King [[Theon Stark]], turned back the greatest of these threats, making common cause with the [[House Bolton]] to crush the warlord [[Argos Sevenstar]] and his Andals at the [[Battle of the Weeping Water]]. In the aftermath of his victory, King Theon raised his own fleet and crossed the narrow sea to the shores of [[Andalos]], with Argos's corpse lashed to the prow of his flagship. There he took a bloody vengeance, burning scores of villages, capturing three tower houses and a fortified sept putting thousands to the sword in the process. The heads of the slain the Hungry Wolf claimed as prizes, carrying them back to [[Westeros]] and planting them on spikes along his own coasts as a warning to other would be conquerors.{{ref|twoiaf| The North: The Kings of Winter}}

After the conquest of the [[Trident]] and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the [[crannogmen]] of the [[Neck]] or the strong fortifications of [[Moat Cailin]]; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace,{{Ref|aGoT|66}} although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

===Dorne===
The influence of the Andals was less in [[Dorne]] than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the [[narrow sea]], rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the [[House Uller|Ullers]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyles]], and [[House Vaith|Vaiths]], adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The [[House Allyrion|Allyrions]], [[House Jordayne|Jordaynes]], and [[House Santagar|Santagars]] also established their own realms. The [[House Martell|Martells]] defeated two First Men houses, the [[House Wade|Wades]] and [[House Shell (Dorne)|Shells]], claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Andals Arrive}}

===Westerlands===
The Andals began to invade the [[westerlands]] after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], the [[King of the Rock]], defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by [[House Lannister]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings [[Tyrion III Lannister|Tyrion III]] and [[Gerold II Lannister|Gerold II]] arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to [[Casterly Rock]] to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]], his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most native kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===The Reach===
The Andals arrived late in the [[Reach]], after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were prevented from sailing there by the fleets of [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] of the [[Arbor]]. In the meantime, the [[House Gardener|Gardener]] kings of [[Highgarden]] prepared the defense of the [[Kingdom of the Reach]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}} King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while King [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to see to their own defenses. King [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] bestowed honors on a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead to repulse the Andals. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]; [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener|Merle I]], and grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]], who each followed one another on the [[Oakenseat]]. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all Three Sage Kings accepted Andal [[knight]]s and retainers into their service; Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}. The Three Sage Kings also granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andal petty kings and adventurers, and converted from worship of the old gods to the Faith. Garth IX brought a [[septon]] to his court and made him part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at [[Highgarden]] was built during Garth's reign. Merle I helped fund the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses all over the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}} Lord [[Dorian Hightower]], set aside his wife for an Andal princess and the stability of trade. [[Damon Hightower]], was the first to accept the Faith and, after his premature death, his son [[Triston Hightower]] was raised and trained by Septon [[Robeson]] who ruled Oldtown in all but name for twenty years, and ultimately became the first [[High Septon]]. Triston's son, [[Barris Hightower]], gave the High Septon his first crystal crown.{{ref|TWOIAF| Oldtown}}

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses [[House Cuy|Cuy]], [[House Graceford|Graceford]], [[House Leygood|Leygood]], [[House Orme|Orme]], [[House Roxton|Roxton]], [[House Uffering|Uffering]], and [[House Varner|Varner]]. As the centuries passed the noble houses of [[First Men]] and Andal intermarried so freely that it become impossible to tell them apart. Though some of the new-made lords broke their vows in later years, most remained loyal and helped their kings and liege lords put down the rebels and also defend the Reach from later invading Andal petty kings and warbands.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

[[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Iron Islands===
It was a thousand years after first landing on the fingers in the Vale that the Andals finally turned their attention to the Iron Islands.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} As the Andals invaded and settled in the riverlands, westerlands, and the Reach, they began constructing new settlements and stout castles. These stronger defenses, combined with the Andals' sailing ability, weakened the grip of the [[ironborn]] on the [[Sunset Sea]]. The Andals then began to invade the [[Iron Islands]], often with the support of rival ironborn lords.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}}

King [[Rognar II Greyiron]] was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses [[House Orkwood|Orkwood]], [[House Drumm|Drumm]], [[House Hoare|Hoare]], and [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]]. According to legend, [[Harras Hoare]] was chosen as king through the [[finger dance]], but Archmaester [[Haereg]] states Harras became [[King of the Iron Islands]] by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord. The Hoare dynasty were often denigrated by the ironborn, especially by the [[drowned men]], for marrying and allying with Andals and tolerating the Faith.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}} The new religion never took hold in the Iron Islands, however, and most families of Andal origin eventually converted to the [[Drowned God]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}}

==Consequences==
The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], [[godswood]]s with [[heart tree]]s were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Arrival of the Andals}} An exception to the spread of the Faith is the Iron Islands, where the native worship of the [[Drowned God]] was adopted by the invading Andals.

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and the [[Long Night]] originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel{{ref|AGOT|66}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}} and the concept of [[Knight|chivalry]] to Westeros.

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the [[Pact]];{{ref|AGOT|66}} the [[children of the forest]] abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations.

During and following the Andal invasions, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the [[King of Mountain and Vale]], the [[King of the Rock]], the [[King of the Reach]], the [[King of the Iron Islands]], the [[King of the Trident]], and the [[Storm King]]. At this time [[Dorne]] was left as a confederation of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the [[north]] remained under control of the First Men [[King in the North]].<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Timeline of major events]]

==References and Notes==
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House Gardener

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Robin Waters: /* The Golden Reign */

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'''House Gardener of Highgarden''' is the extinct house of the old and famed [[King of the Reach|Kings]] of the [[Reach]]. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled, through war and peace and the assimilation with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invaders]], down the generations, until the last Gardener king [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his kin were killed at the [[Field of Fire]] in the [[War of Conquest]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Their seat was [[Highgarden]], where many Gardener kings sat upon a living throne called the [[Oakenseat]] that grew from an oak that the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]] himself was reputedly said to have planted. The Kings of House Gardener wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their blazon was a green hand over a white field,{{ref|tss}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> which inspired the chivalric [[Order of the Green Hand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

==History==
===Age of Heroes===
The Gardeners claimed descent from the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]], who, according to legends from the Reach, is said to have been the High King of the [[First Men]] and common ancestor of numerous noble houses from the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} His firstborn child was [[Garth the Gardener]], the legendary first King of the Reach who reigned in the [[Age of Heroes]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} According to legend, Garth the Gardener made his home on the hill atop the [[Mander]] river that in time would become known as Highgarden, and wore a crown of vines and flowers. From his loins sprang House Gardener, whose kings would rule the Reach for many thousands of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

The Gardener kings initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], although over time they expanded their territory. The western marches between [[Horn Hill]] and [[Nightsong]] were eventually added to the Gardeners' domain. [[Old Oak]], [[Red Lake]], and [[Goldengrove]] joined the realm with pacts of friendship and mutual defense with [[Garth III Gardener|Garth III]] (the Great).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} [[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]] brought the [[Arbor]] into the kingdom and made [[House Redwyne]] his vassals after his cousin, the last [[King of the Arbor]], was lost at sea.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Not long after, King [[Garland II Gardener|Garland II]] (the Bridegroom) brought [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and their domains into the realm by wedding his daughter to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]] and putting aside his own [[Polygamy|wives]] to marry Lymond's daughter.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne III]] (the Fat) resolved the quarrel between Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] and accepted fealty for their lands without bloodshed. [[John II Gardener|John II ]] (the Tall) received homage from lords and petty kings as he sailed his barge to the headwaters of the Mander.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Legendary Warrior kings from this time include [[Garth V Gardener|Garth V]] (Hammer of the Dornish), [[Gwayne I Gardener|Gwayne I]] (the Gallant), [[Gyles I Gardener|Gyles I]] (the Woe), and [[Gordan I Gardener|Gordan I]] (Grey-Eyes).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} The Gardener kings often warred with the [[ironborn]], sometimes in alliance with the [[Kings of the Rock]] and the Lords of [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} At least six Gardener kings died in battle against the ironborn, including [[Gareth II Gardener|Gareth II]] (the Grim), [[Garth VI Gardener|Garth VI]] (the Morningstar), and [[Gyles II Gardener|Gyles II]], the last of whom was tortured to death by [[Joron I Blacktyde]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}

===The Golden Reign===
The greatest of the Gardeners was King [[Garth VII Gardener]], known as the Goldenhand, for his deeds both in war and in peace.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Ascending to the Oakenseat at age twelve, Garth ruled for eighty-one years, of which less than ten were spent at war. In the few times Garth Goldenhand did go to war he utterly trounced his adversaries. As a boy he defeated an invasion of [[Dornishmen]] by King [[Ferris Fowler]], then drove the ironborn from the [[Shield Islands]] and fortified them with men from the Reach. Garth VII divided an alliance between the King of the Rock and [[Storm King]], defeating both in the [[Battle of Three Armies]], and dictated the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Garth's greatest accomplishment was giving his people three-quarters of a century of golden peace, bringing an unprecedented prosperity. Garth's rule became known as the [[Golden Reign]], and was when the Reach truly flowered.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

===Arrival of the Andals===
:{{See also|Three Sage Kings}}

The Kings of the Reach observed the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], [[stormlands]], and the [[riverlands]] from afar. Instead of allying with the invaders against other [[First Men]], they took precautions against possible Andal invasions. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] (the Gods-fearing) sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] (the Mason) constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to do the same. [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] (the Madling) supported a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however. When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]. {{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings who followed one another on the Oakenseat — [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener| Merle I]] (the Meek), and his grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]] — were a trio of cunning and wise kings who used a policy of accord and assimilation with the Andals rather then armed resistance. Although he continued to worship the [[old gods]], Garth IX made a [[septon]] part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at Highgarden was built during his reign. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and become its patron, helping to fund and build septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener King born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings took Andals into their service as knights and retainers. Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Merle I and Gwayne V married Andal maidens to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} The three kings also bequeathed lands, wives, and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty; numerous houses of the Reach trace their ancestry back to these Andal adventurers.

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying them and their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry. Most new lords remained loyal and helped the Gardeners against internal and external threats. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Andal Kings===
The centuries that followed the assimilation with the Andals were less peaceful, and the Gardener kings (and one queen) varied in wisdom and strength. The Kings of the Reach constantly warred against and allied with the [[Kings of the Rock]], the [[Storm Kings]], the many kings from Dorne, and the [[Kings of the Rivers and the Hills]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as [[regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

King [[Gyles III Gardener]] conquered from the Storm King all the lands north of the [[rainwood]] save for [[Storm's End]]. While he was away, the Reach was attacked by [[Lancel IV Lannister]], forcing Gyles to deal with the [[westermen]].{{ref|TSS}} A new broader war followed, involving three Dornish kings and two river kings, and ended with Gyles III dead of a [[bloody flux]] and his conquests abandoned.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]], known as Garth Greybeard, witnessed the nadir of Gardener power. The elderly and senile Garth had sired only daughters, who were married to the rival Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]]. Once the rival lords began warring, the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], [[House Durrandon|Durrandons]], and Dornish attack the kingdom. A Dornish king sacked Highgarden, killed Garth Greybeard, and destroyed the [[Oakenseat]]. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and the Manderlys, reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden, and supported [[Mern VI Gardener]], a second cousin of Garth, as king. Although a man of only modest gifts, Mern VI was able to rebuild Highgarden and restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener, relying on the counsel of his stewards: Osmund Tyrell, Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell|Robert]] — who was allowed to marry his youngest daughter in gratitude — and Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent]]. Mern's son [[Garth XI Gardener|Garth XI]] (the Painter) retaliated against the Dornish by invading the [[Red Mountains]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Approximately a thousand years ago Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drove [[House Manderly]] from the Reach at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderlys' growing power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys fled from the [[Mander]] for the [[White Knife]] in the [[north]].{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{ref|ADWD|19}} King [[Greydon Gardener]] attempted an invasion of Dorne, but was thrown back by [[Nymeria]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} King [[Garse VII Gardener|Garse VII]] was slain by the Storm King, [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]] at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===War of Conquest and Extinction===
[[File:Field of Fire.jpg|thumb|300px|End of House Gardener on the [[Field of Fire]]]]
House Gardener died out in the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[War of Conquest]] almost three hundred years before ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. When [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] invaded [[Westeros]], King [[Mern IX Gardener]] joined with [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], to put an end to [[House Targaryen]] at what would become known as the [[Field of Fire]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern commanded the center of the combined army and led the charge against Aegon's forces. The host of [[House Targaryen]] eventually broke, but by then Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], had taken to the air on their [[dragons]]. The dragons killed four thousand men of the combined army, among them Mern and his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{ref|AGOT|13}} One nephew of King Mern survived, but he died of his burns three days later, ending House Gardener.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern's High Steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered [[Highgarden]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen]], pledging fealty. Aegon named Harlen the [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] and the Lord of Highgarden, and granted Harlen dominion over the Reach in exchange for his submission to the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===Legacy===
Many of the noble houses from the Reach trace their descent back to [[Garth Greenhand]], a fact that is often used to boast of a better claim than the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] as the rightful rulers of the Reach, as the Tyrells are descendants of the Gardeners only through the female line. Houses with Garth Greenhand as an ancestor are the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], and many others.{{ref|ASOS|61}}

Golden [[currency]] from the time of the Gardeners is still in use, albeit rare.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}{{Ref|aFfC|16}} The coins are named ''hands'', each worth roughly half a gold dragon,{{Ref|aFfC|16}} and feature the hand sigil of House Gardener on one side and the likeness of the current king on the other side. They are known to have been made with [[Garth XII Gardener|Garth XII]]'s effigy.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

==Historical Members==
No precise lineage or chronology of House Gardner is known. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled as [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] until the last Gardener king, [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]], rode out to meet [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], upon the [[Field of Fire]].

*King [[Garth the Gardener]], mythical founder of House Gardener and the first King of the Reach, first son of [[Garth Greenhand]].
*King [[Garth III Gardener]], called "''the Great''", who expanded the borders of the Reach northward.
*King [[Garth V Gardener]], called "''Hammer of the Dornish''".
*King [[Gwayne I Gardener]], called "''the Gallant''".
*King [[Gyles I Gardener]], called "''the Woe''", who reportedly sold three quarters of [[Oldtown]]'s population into slavery.
*King [[Meryn III Gardener]], who brought the [[Arbor]] into the realm.
*King [[Garland II Gardener]], called "''the Bridegroom''", who brought Oldtown into the realm.
**a daughter married to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]].
*King [[Gwayne III Gardener]], called "''the Fat''".
*King [[John II Gardener]], called "''the Tall''".
*King [[Gareth II Gardener]], called "''the Grim''", died in battle against the [[ironborn]].
*King [[Garth VI Gardener]], called "''the Morningstar''", died in battle against the ironborn.
*King [[Gyles II Gardener]], who was tortured and then cut into small pieces to bait his ironborn captor's hooks.
*King [[Gordan I Gardener]], called "''Grey-Eyes''".
*King [[Garth VII Gardener]], called "''the Goldenhand''" or "''Garth Goldenhand''", greatest of all the Gardener Kings. His rule is known as the [[Golden Reign]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Lannister]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Durrandon]].
**a great-grandson, his successor.
*King [[Gwayne IV Gardener]], called "''the Gods-fearing''", who sought out the [[children of the forest]] to repel the [[Andal]] invaders.
*King [[Mern II Gardener]], called "''the Mason''", built a new curtain wall about [[Highgarden]].
*King [[Mern III Gardener]], called "''the Madling''".
*King [[Garth IX Gardener]], first of the [[Three Sage Kings]].
**King [[Merle I Gardener]], called "''the Meek''", his son and successor. First Gardener king to worship the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Second of the Three Sage Kings.
***King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], his grandson, Merle I's son and successor. The first Gardener king born into the Faith of the Seven, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. Last of the Three Sage Kings.
*King [[Garland VI Gardener]].
*King [[Gyles III Gardener]], under whose rule [[Highgarden]] reached the apex of its power.
*King [[Garth X Gardener]], called "''Garth Greybeard''", under his long reign House Gardener reached the nadir of its power.
**a daughter married to [[House Manderly|Lord Manderly]].
**a daughter married to [[House Peake|Lord Peake]].
**King [[Mern VI Gardener]], his second cousin and successor.
***King [[Garth XI Gardener]], called "''the Painter''", his son and successor.
***his youngest daughter, married to Ser [[Robert Tyrell]].
*King [[Greydon Gardener]].
*King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who had House Manderly exiled from the Reach.
*King [[Garth XII Gardener]].
*King [[Garse VII Gardener]], slain at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].
*King [[Mern IX Gardener]], last of the Gardener Kings. Killed at the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his kin.
**Prince [[Edmund Gardener]], his son and heir.
**Prince [[Gawen Gardener]], his son.
**two other sons.
**two young grandsons.
**a nephew, last of the Gardeners.

==References and Notes==
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House Gardener

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Robin Waters:

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'''House Gardener of Highgarden''' is the extinct house of the old and famed [[King of the Reach|Kings]] of the [[Reach]]. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled, through war and peace and the assimilation with the [[Andal]] [[Andal invasion|invaders]], down the generations, until the last Gardener king [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his kin were killed at the [[Field of Fire]] in the [[War of Conquest]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Their seat was [[Highgarden]], where many Gardener kings sat upon a living throne called the [[Oakenseat]] that grew from an oak that the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]] himself was reputedly said to have planted. The Kings of House Gardener wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Their blazon was a green hand over a white field,{{ref|tss}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> which inspired the chivalric [[Order of the Green Hand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

==History==
===Age of Heroes===
The Gardeners claimed descent from the mythical [[Garth Greenhand]], who, according to legends from the Reach, is said to have been the High King of the [[First Men]] and common ancestor of numerous noble houses from the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} His firstborn child was [[Garth the Gardener]], the legendary first King of the Reach who reigned in the [[Age of Heroes]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} According to legend, Garth the Gardener made his home on the hill atop the [[Mander]] river that in time would become known as Highgarden, and wore a crown of vines and flowers. From his loins sprang House Gardener, whose kings would rule the Reach for many thousands of years.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

The Gardener kings initially ruled the [[Reach proper]], although over time they expanded their territory. The western marches between [[Horn Hill]] and [[Nightsong]] were eventually added to the Gardeners' domain. [[Old Oak]], [[Red Lake]], and [[Goldengrove]] joined the realm with pacts of friendship and mutual defense with [[Garth III Gardener|Garth III]] (the Great).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} [[Meryn III Gardener|Meryn III]] brought the [[Arbor]] into the kingdom and made [[House Redwyne]] his vassals after his cousin, the last [[King of the Arbor]], was lost at sea.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} Not long after, King [[Garland II Gardener|Garland II]] (the Bridegroom) brought [[House Hightower]] of [[Oldtown]] and their domains into the realm by wedding his daughter to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]] and putting aside his own [[Polygamy|wives]] to marry Lymond's daughter.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Oldtown}} King [[Gwayne III Gardener|Gwayne III]] (the Fat) resolved the quarrel between Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] and accepted fealty for their lands without bloodshed. [[John II Gardener|John II ]] (the Tall) received homage from lords and petty kings as he sailed his barge to the headwaters of the Mander.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Legendary Warrior kings from this time include [[Garth V Gardener|Garth V]] (Hammer of the Dornish), [[Gwayne I Gardener|Gwayne I]] (the Gallant), [[Gyles I Gardener|Gyles I]] (the Woe), and [[Gordan I Gardener|Gordan I]] (Grey-Eyes).{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} The Gardener kings often warred with the [[ironborn]], sometimes in alliance with the [[Kings of the Rock]] and the Lords of [[Oldtown]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} At least six Gardener kings died in battle against the ironborn, including [[Gareth II Gardener|Gareth II]] (the Grim), [[Garth VI Gardener|Garth VI]] (the Morningstar), and [[Gyles II Gardener|Gyles II]], the last of whom was tortured to death by [[Joron I Blacktyde]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}

===The Golden Reign===
The greatest of the Gardeners was King [[Garth VII Gardener]], known as the Goldenhand, for his deeds both in war and in peace.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}} Ascending to the Oakenseat at age twelve, Garth ruled for eighty-one years, of which less than ten were spent at war. In the few times Garth Goldenhand did go to war he utterly trounced his adversaries. As a boy he defeated an invasion of [[Dornishmen]] by [[Ferris Fowler]], then drove the ironborn from the [[Shield Islands]] and fortified them with men from the Reach. Garth VII divided an alliance between the King of the Rock and [[Storm King]], defeating both in the [[Battle of Three Armies]], and dictated the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

Garth's greatest accomplishment was giving his people three-quarters of a century of golden peace, bringing an unprecedented prosperity. Garth's rule became known as the [[Golden Reign]], and was when the Reach truly flowered.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}

===Arrival of the Andals===
:{{See also|Three Sage Kings}}

The Kings of the Reach observed the [[Andal invasion]] of the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], [[stormlands]], and the [[riverlands]] from afar. Instead of allying with the invaders against other [[First Men]], they took precautions against possible Andal invasions. King [[Gwayne IV Gardener|Gwayne IV]] (the Gods-fearing) sought aid from the [[children of the forest]], while [[Mern II Gardener|Mern II]] (the Mason) constructed a new curtain wall around Highgarden and encouraged his bannermen to do the same. [[Mern III Gardener|Mern III]] (the Madling) supported a [[woods witch]] who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however. When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, however, they were welcomed by the [[Three Sage Kings]]. {{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings who followed one another on the Oakenseat — [[Garth IX Gardener|Garth IX]], his son [[Merle I Gardener| Merle I]] (the Meek), and his grandson [[Gwayne V Gardener|Gwayne V]] — were a trio of cunning and wise kings who used a policy of accord and assimilation with the Andals rather then armed resistance. Although he continued to worship the [[old gods]], Garth IX made a [[septon]] part of his councils and the first [[sept]] at Highgarden was built during his reign. Merle I converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]] and become its patron, helping to fund and build septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener King born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The Three Sage Kings took Andals into their service as knights and retainers. Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of [[House Tyrell]], was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Merle I and Gwayne V married Andal maidens to bind their fathers to the Gardener realm.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} The three kings also bequeathed lands, wives, and lordships for the more powerful of the Andals descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty; numerous houses of the Reach trace their ancestry back to these Andal adventurers.

The Gardeners also encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying them and their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry. Most new lords remained loyal and helped the Gardeners against internal and external threats. [[Maester]] [[Yandel]] writes that seldom had a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

===Andal Kings===
The centuries that followed the assimilation with the Andals were less peaceful, and the Gardener kings (and one queen) varied in wisdom and strength. The Kings of the Reach constantly warred against and allied with the [[Kings of the Rock]], the [[Storm Kings]], the many kings from Dorne, and the [[Kings of the Rivers and the Hills]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as [[regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

King [[Gyles III Gardener]] conquered from the Storm King all the lands north of the [[rainwood]] save for [[Storm's End]]. While he was away, the Reach was attacked by [[Lancel IV Lannister]], forcing Gyles to deal with the [[westermen]].{{ref|TSS}} A new broader war followed, involving three Dornish kings and two river kings, and ended with Gyles III dead of a [[bloody flux]] and his conquests abandoned.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

The long reign of King [[Garth X Gardener|Garth X]], known as Garth Greybeard, witnessed the nadir of Gardener power. The elderly and senile Garth had sired only daughters, who were married to the rival Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]]. Once the rival lords began warring, the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], [[House Durrandon|Durrandons]], and Dornish attack the kingdom. A Dornish king sacked Highgarden, killed Garth Greybeard, and destroyed the [[Oakenseat]]. The anarchy that followed lasted almost a decade until Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], made common cause with the other lords of the Reach and defeated both the Peakes and the Manderlys, reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden, and supported [[Mern VI Gardener]], a second cousin of Garth, as king. Although a man of only modest gifts, Mern VI was able to rebuild Highgarden and restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener, relying on the counsel of his stewards: Osmund Tyrell, Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell|Robert]] — who was allowed to marry his youngest daughter in gratitude — and Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent]]. Mern's son [[Garth XI Gardener|Garth XI]] (the Painter) retaliated against the Dornish by invading the [[Red Mountains]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Approximately a thousand years ago Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] drove [[House Manderly]] from the Reach at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]] who feared the Manderlys' growing power in the Reach.{{ref|TWOIAF| The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys fled from the [[Mander]] for the [[White Knife]] in the [[north]].{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{ref|ADWD|19}} King [[Greydon Gardener]] attempted an invasion of Dorne, but was thrown back by [[Nymeria]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} King [[Garse VII Gardener|Garse VII]] was slain by the Storm King, [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]] at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===War of Conquest and Extinction===
[[File:Field of Fire.jpg|thumb|300px|End of House Gardener on the [[Field of Fire]]]]
House Gardener died out in the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[War of Conquest]] almost three hundred years before ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. When [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] invaded [[Westeros]], King [[Mern IX Gardener]] joined with [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], to put an end to [[House Targaryen]] at what would become known as the [[Field of Fire]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern commanded the center of the combined army and led the charge against Aegon's forces. The host of [[House Targaryen]] eventually broke, but by then Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], had taken to the air on their [[dragons]]. The dragons killed four thousand men of the combined army, among them Mern and his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.{{ref|AGOT|13}} One nephew of King Mern survived, but he died of his burns three days later, ending House Gardener.{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Mern's High Steward, [[Harlen Tyrell]], surrendered [[Highgarden]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen]], pledging fealty. Aegon named Harlen the [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] and the Lord of Highgarden, and granted Harlen dominion over the Reach in exchange for his submission to the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

===Legacy===
Many of the noble houses from the Reach trace their descent back to [[Garth Greenhand]], a fact that is often used to boast of a better claim than the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] as the rightful rulers of the Reach, as the Tyrells are descendants of the Gardeners only through the female line. Houses with Garth Greenhand as an ancestor are the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], and many others.{{ref|ASOS|61}}

Golden [[currency]] from the time of the Gardeners is still in use, albeit rare.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}{{Ref|aFfC|16}} The coins are named ''hands'', each worth roughly half a gold dragon,{{Ref|aFfC|16}} and feature the hand sigil of House Gardener on one side and the likeness of the current king on the other side. They are known to have been made with [[Garth XII Gardener|Garth XII]]'s effigy.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

==Historical Members==
No precise lineage or chronology of House Gardner is known. Beginning with the mythical first king [[Garth the Gardener]], the Gardeners ruled as [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]] until the last Gardener king, [[Mern IX Gardener|Mern IX]], rode out to meet [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], upon the [[Field of Fire]].

*King [[Garth the Gardener]], mythical founder of House Gardener and the first King of the Reach, first son of [[Garth Greenhand]].
*King [[Garth III Gardener]], called "''the Great''", who expanded the borders of the Reach northward.
*King [[Garth V Gardener]], called "''Hammer of the Dornish''".
*King [[Gwayne I Gardener]], called "''the Gallant''".
*King [[Gyles I Gardener]], called "''the Woe''", who reportedly sold three quarters of [[Oldtown]]'s population into slavery.
*King [[Meryn III Gardener]], who brought the [[Arbor]] into the realm.
*King [[Garland II Gardener]], called "''the Bridegroom''", who brought Oldtown into the realm.
**a daughter married to Lord [[Lymond Hightower]].
*King [[Gwayne III Gardener]], called "''the Fat''".
*King [[John II Gardener]], called "''the Tall''".
*King [[Gareth II Gardener]], called "''the Grim''", died in battle against the [[ironborn]].
*King [[Garth VI Gardener]], called "''the Morningstar''", died in battle against the ironborn.
*King [[Gyles II Gardener]], who was tortured and then cut into small pieces to bait his ironborn captor's hooks.
*King [[Gordan I Gardener]], called "''Grey-Eyes''".
*King [[Garth VII Gardener]], called "''the Goldenhand''" or "''Garth Goldenhand''", greatest of all the Gardener Kings. His rule is known as the [[Golden Reign]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Lannister]].
**a daughter married to the heir of [[House Durrandon]].
**a great-grandson, his successor.
*King [[Gwayne IV Gardener]], called "''the Gods-fearing''", who sought out the [[children of the forest]] to repel the [[Andal]] invaders.
*King [[Mern II Gardener]], called "''the Mason''", built a new curtain wall about [[Highgarden]].
*King [[Mern III Gardener]], called "''the Madling''".
*King [[Garth IX Gardener]], first of the [[Three Sage Kings]].
**King [[Merle I Gardener]], called "''the Meek''", his son and successor. First Gardener king to worship the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Second of the Three Sage Kings.
***King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], his grandson, Merle I's son and successor. The first Gardener king born into the Faith of the Seven, as well as the first to be made a [[knight]]. Last of the Three Sage Kings.
*King [[Garland VI Gardener]].
*King [[Gyles III Gardener]], under whose rule [[Highgarden]] reached the apex of its power.
*King [[Garth X Gardener]], called "''Garth Greybeard''", under his long reign House Gardener reached the nadir of its power.
**a daughter married to [[House Manderly|Lord Manderly]].
**a daughter married to [[House Peake|Lord Peake]].
**King [[Mern VI Gardener]], his second cousin and successor.
***King [[Garth XI Gardener]], called "''the Painter''", his son and successor.
***his youngest daughter, married to Ser [[Robert Tyrell]].
*King [[Greydon Gardener]].
*King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who had House Manderly exiled from the Reach.
*King [[Garth XII Gardener]].
*King [[Garse VII Gardener]], slain at the [[Battle of Summerfield]].
*King [[Mern IX Gardener]], last of the Gardener Kings. Killed at the [[Field of Fire]] alongside his kin.
**Prince [[Edmund Gardener]], his son and heir.
**Prince [[Gawen Gardener]], his son.
**two other sons.
**two young grandsons.
**a nephew, last of the Gardeners.

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