Gyles III Gardener

King Gyles III Gardener
Monarch
Full name	Gyles of House Gardener, the Third of His Name
Title	King of the Reach
Family
Dynasty	House Gardener
References
Books	The World of Ice & Fire (mentioned) The Sworn Sword (mentioned)

Gyles III Gardener was a King of the Reach and a head of House Gardener.

History

While the Reach enjoyed an unprecedented prosperity, called the Golden Reign, under King Garth VII Gardener, it was during the reign of Gyles III that Highgarden reached the apex of its power.

Leading a glittering host of armored knights, Gyles went to war against the aged Storm King in the east, defeated the armies of the stormlanders, and conquered all the lands north of the rainwood except for Storm's End, which he besieged for two years. While the King of the Reach was away with his army in the east, the Reach was attacked by the King of the Rock, Lancel IV Lannister, forcing Gyles to lift his siege of Storm's End and hurry home to deal with the westermen.

House Osgrey were the Marshals of the Northmarch at the time. Since his elder brothers were all with Gyles, Ser Wilbert Osgrey called up the reserve levies and marched to stop King Lancel. During the battle between the two forces, Wilbert met the King of the Rock and slew him at the cost of his own life, stopping the attack in its tracks. The westermen retreated and the Reach was saved. Maester Yandel writes that had Lancel not invaded the Reach, Gyles might have been able to complete his conquest in the stormlands.

A broader war followed involving three Dornish kings and two from the riverlands. The fighting eventually ended with Gyles dead of a bloody flux and the borders between the realms restored to more or less what they had been before hostilities began.