| Gendry's mother | |
|---|---|
| Culture | Crownlands |
| Died | King's Landing |
| Lover | Robert I Baratheon |
| Issue | Gendry |
| Books |
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Gendry's mother was a tavern wench[1] from King's Landing who was the mother of Gendry. Her given name is unknown.
Appearance
The woman had yellow hair.[2]
History
The woman worked in an alehouse[2] and would bring home drunks from the establishment.[3] She had a black-haired bastard named Gendry with King Robert I Baratheon,[2] though she never revealed to the boy the identity of his father.[3] She sometimes sang to Gendry but died when the boy was little.[2]
Lord Jon Arryn asked Gendry about his mother during the Hand of the King's investigation into the parentage of Robert's various children.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lord Eddard Stark, the new Hand of the King, learns from Gendry that Lord Jon Arryn had asked about the apprentice's mother.[2]
A Feast for Crows
Gendry has become a blacksmith at the crossroads inn during the War of the Five Kings. Since the youth resembles the late King Robert I Baratheon and the late Lord Renly Baratheon, Brienne of Tarth asks him about his parents.[4]
Quotes
Eddard: Gendry, when Lord Arryn came to see you, what did you talk about?
Gendry: He asked me questions is all, m'lord.
Eddard: What sort of questions?
Gendry: How was I, and was I well treated, and if I liked the work, and stuff about my mother. Who she was and what she looked like and all.
Eddard: What did you tell him?
Gendry: She died when I was little. She had yellow hair, and sometimes she used to sing to me, I remember. She worked in an alehouse.[2]—Eddard Stark and Gendry
At least your father raised his bastard, not like mine. I don't even know my father's name. Some smelly drunk, I'd wager, like the others my mother dragged home from the alehouse. Whenever she got mad at me, she'd say, 'If your father was here, he'd beat you bloody.' That's all I know of him.[3]
—Gendry to Arya Stark
Brienne: Is your mother still alive? And your father, who was he?
Gendry: You ask too many questions. My mother's dead and I never knew my father.[4]—Brienne Tarth and Gendry
References
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Gendry.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 27, Eddard VI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya VIII.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.