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| Allegiance | House Osgrey[1] | |||
| Culture | Reach | |||
| Born |
183 AC or 184 AC[2] Standfast[3] | |||
| Died |
196 AC (aged 12) Redgrass Field[1] | |||
| Father | Eustace Osgrey | |||
| Book | The Sworn Sword (mentioned) | |||
Addam Osgrey was a squire from House Osgrey during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen. He was the third son of Ser Eustace Osgrey of Standfast.[1]
Character
Addam was fond of blackberries. According to his father, he was a brave boy. He sometimes wore an Osgrey squire's doublet of green and gold checks, and white woolen breeches.[1]
History
Addam served as a page and then as a squire at Coldmoat, the seat of Lord Wyman Webber, his father's friend. During his time at Coldmoat, a love grew between Addam and Lord Wyman's daughter, Rohanne, two years younger than him. Addam would pick blackberries from the thicket on Standfast's hill for Rohanne, and they would eat them with cream. However, their innocent romance never went beyond a few kisses. Addam's father, Ser Eustace, came to Coldmoat to propose a marriage between the two children. Lord Wyman refused him, however, possibly due to Eustace's growing traitorous leanings towards the Blackfyre cause. Though his refusal was polite, as Eustace left he heard Lord Wyman laughing with his castellan, Ser Lucas Inchfield. Lord Wyman then had Rohanne married to another of his squires, while Ser Eustace refused to ever return to Coldmoat for thirteen years.[1]
During the First Blackfyre Rebellion in 196 AC, Ser Eustace fought on the side of the pretender Daemon I Blackfyre. His three sons went to war with him, including Addam, twelve years old, as his father's squire. During the Battle of the Redgrass Field, Addam was trying to protect his wounded brother, Ser Harrold, when a knight of House Smallwood cut off his arm with an ax. Addam's brothers also died in the battle, and afterwards his sister Alysanne was sent to King's Landing as a hostage for Eustace's pardon. After Eustace brought home the bones of his sons and allowed Alysanne to be taken away, Addam's mother committed suicide by throwing herself from the top of Standfast. Eustace buried his wife and sons at Standfast by the blackberry bushes his sons had loved to pick.[1]
Lord Wyman Webber also fought in the battle, on the side of House Targaryen, and his squire (Rohanne's husband) was slain, making her a widow at the age of ten. However, Rohanne mourned only for Addam, not for her husband; she blamed Ser Eustace for his death, and held a grudge against the knight thereafter.[1]
In 211 AC, due to growing tensions with Lady Rohanne Webber, Ser Eustace Osgrey took on Ser Duncan the Tall as a sworn sword. Duncan's squire, Egg, was outfitted in Addam's old squire's clothing. On Ser Eustace's behalf, Duncan went to Coldmoat to pay a blood price for his fellow sworn sword's assault on one of Rohanne's men, and to request that Lady Rohanne take down the dam on the Chequy Water that blocked the stream from reaching Osgrey lands. However, she refused both petitions. Duncan, having heard the story of Addam and Rohanne's childhood fondness from Ser Eustace, made the mistake of appealing to Rohanne in Addam's name, for which she struck him in fury. Duncan eventually defeated Rohanne's champion in a trial by combat in the Chequy Water, and afterwards Eustace and Rohanne reconciled. She visited Addam's grave at Standfast, and when she knelt before the blackberries and began to weep, Eustace comforted her. They spent the night talking of their families, and married the next day, which allowed Rohanne to keep ruling Coldmoat per her father's will.[1]
Quotes
Duncan: Ser Eustace told me she was fond of the boy.
Sefton: Fond? She loved the boy, and him her. It never went beyond a kiss or two, but... it was Addam she wept for after the Redgrass Field, not the husband she hardly knew. She blames Ser Eustace for his death, and rightly so. The boy was twelve.[1]
I scarce remember Addam any longer. It was more than half my life ago. I remember that I loved him, though. I have not loved any of the others.[1]
Family