Battle of Lann's Point

The Battle of Lann's Point was a battle in which House Lannister fought ironborn at Lann's Point. Lancel IV Lannister, King of the Rock, is said to have beheaded King Harrald Halfdrowned, as well as Harrald's heir, with a single stroke of his Valyrian steel sword, Brightroar^[1] (however, it was probably a common steel sword of the same name, which has been conflated with the Valyrian blade).^{[N 1]}

Notes

↑ Lancel IV Lannister and Gyles III Gardener were contemporaries.^[2]^[3] As stated by Maester Yandel, they participated in a war involving two kings from the riverlands and three from Dorne,^[4] indicating an era prior to the riverlands being ruled by House Durrandon and Dorne being ruled by House Martell (centuries before Aegon's Conquest). Ser Eustace Osgrey says that Lancel IV or Lancel V wielded a Valyrian steel sword,^[2] and Yandel writes that Lancel IV wielded the Valyrian steel sword Brightroar and that House Lannister had acquired the blade in the century before the Doom of Valyria (which occurred a century before the Conquest).^[5] According to Elio García, before the Valyrian version of it, the Lannisters had probably wielded other swords named Brightroar, made instead of common steel, and the stories of their actions became merged with the last one (like with Ice or Lady Forlorn).^[6]