Bank of Oldtown
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The Bank of Oldtown is a bank run by House Hightower of Oldtown.
History
After the Rogare Bank collapsed in 136 AC, Lotho Rogare was taken into the service of Lady Samantha Tarly, paramour and step-mother of Lord Lyonel Hightower. House Hightower had not entrusted its gold to the bank, and remained one of the wealthiest Houses of Westeros. Lady Samantha wished to learn how to invest better, and founded the Bank of Oldtown, which made House Hightower even richer.[1]
It is unknown whether the bank has persisted to this day.[N 1]
Notes
- ↑ In A Feast for Crows, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister thinks the Iron Throne needs a Westerosi bank to thwart the influence of the Iron Bank of Braavos over the crown's treasury. She imagines the creation of the "Golden Bank of Lannisport", but does not mention the Bank of Oldtown (AFFC, Cersei VIII). However, it is possible that the Bank of Oldtown is still active, but Cersei deliberately does not mention it, not trusting House Hightower and preferring to found a new bank to be controlled by House Lannister. That being said, since the Bank of Oldtown was introduced in Fire & Blood in 2018, it is likely George R. R. Martin had not came up with the idea of a Hightower bank yet when he wrote A Feast for Crows, published in 2005.
References
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.