House Tarbeck

House Tarbeck of Tarbeck Hall
Coat of arms	A 7-pointed star, countercharged, on gyronny silver and blue (Gyronny argent and azure, a star of seven points counterchanged)
Seat	Tarbeck Hall
Head	Extinct
Region	Westerlands
Title	Lord of Tarbeck Hall
Overlord	House Lannister
Died out	261 AC

House Tarbeck of Tarbeck Hall was a noble house from Tarbeck Hall near the Crag in the westerlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazoned their arms with a seven-pointed star, parts silver parts blue, on silver and blue field.

History

According to Maester Yandel, the Tarbecks were an ancient and honorable House.

Before marrying King Maegor I Targaryen, Lady Jeyne Westerling was wed to Lord Alyn Tarbeck. The Lord of Tarbeck Hall was killed fighting for Prince Aegon Targaryen during the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye, however.

Ser Adrian Tarbeck led a Lannister host in the Dance of the Dragons. During Lady Johanna Lannister's war against the ironborn, she hoped to retake Fair Isle from the Red Kraken, Lord Dalton Greyjoy. Lord Tarbeck, Lord Prester, and Ser Erwin Lannister were given command of a ragtag fleet of fishing boats and cogs at Feastfires, but they were betrayed. The ill-fated crossing led to their deaths in an ambush at Fair Isle, and Lord Tarbeck's head was sent back to Casterly Rock.

Ser Eustace Osgrey recalled that scions of House Osgrey married Tarbecks, and that during the First Blackfyre Rebellion the Tarbecks supported both sides.

By the reign of King Aegon V Targaryen, House Tarbeck was an old but impoverished line who had been in a slow decline for centuries. This halted with the marriage of Lord Walderan Tarbeck to the widowed Ellyn Reyne, who had ties with House Lannister of Casterly Rock. House Reyne became close allies with the Tarbecks, and the Tarbecks used funds from Lord Tytos Lannister to rebuild crumbling Tarbeck Hall. Walderan increased the number of household knights under his command from twenty to five hundred.

Together with House Reyne, the Tarbecks became the most powerful vassals of the Lannisters, but they were also defiant and disorderly. When Tywin Lannister was only ten, Ellyn Tarbeck laughed when the marriage of Genna Lannister and Emmon Frey was announced by Tywin's father, Lord Tytos.

When the sons of Tytos came back from the War of the Ninepenny Kings, Ser Tywin began demanding repayment for all the gold that had been lent out. The confident Lord Walderan was imprisoned by Tywin at Casterly Rock. In retaliation, Ellyn imprisoned two Lannisters of Lannisport, as well as Stafford Lannister, whose sister Joanna was betrothed to Tywin. Tywin counseled that Lord Walderan should be returned to his wife in three pieces, but Lord Tytos agreed to the exchange of hostages at Castamere, seat of House Reyne.

Less than a year later in 261 AC, however, Tywin sent out ravens to Castamere and Tarbeck Hall, demanding that they answer for their crimes. Instead of doing so, both houses rose up in open revolt which started the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion. After Tywin quickly defeated Walderan's host, he ordered the beheadings of Lord Tarbeck and his supporters. Ellyn and Tion the Red were killed during Tywin's assault on Tarbeck Hall; Tywin supposedly smiled when Tarbeck Hall collapsed with Lady Ellyn within.

Historical Members

Lord Walderan Tarbeck from Game of Thrones Blu-ray

• Lord Alyn Tarbeck, Lord of Tarbeck Hall. He married Lady Jeyne Westerling.
  • One posthumous son, who succeded him as Lord of Tarbeck Hall.
• Lady Jocasta Tarbeck, Lady of Casterly Rock and wife of Lord Lyman Lannister.
• Lord Tarbeck, who died from the Shivers in 59 AC.
• Ser Adrian Tarbeck, who commanded the Lannister army in the Dance of the Dragons after the death of Lord Jason Lannister.
• Lord Tarbeck, slain by Lord Dalton Greyjoy's men in 133 AC while trying to retake Fair Isle.
• Lord Tarbeck during the First Blackfyre Rebellion who supported both sides.
• Lord Walderan Tarbeck, Lord of Tarbeck Hall, described as muttonheaded.
  • Several sons by two former wives, and several nephews and cousins.
  • Lady Ellyn Tarbeck, his third wife, of House Reyne.
    • Rohanne Tarbeck, his daughter. Forced to join the silent sisters.
      • the last Lord Tarbeck, the young son of Rohanne.
    • Cyrelle Tarbeck, his daughter. Forced to join the silent sisters.
    • Tion Tarbeck, known as Tion the Red, Walderan's youngest son. Died with his mother when Tarbeck Hall's keep collapsed on them.

Unknown two wives

Walderan

Ellyn Reyne

Sons

Rohanne

Unknown husband

Cyrelle

Unknown husband

Tion

Son

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Quotes

Roose: The curse of Tywin Lannister. Our goat should have consulted the Tarbecks or the Reynes. They might have warned him how your lord father deals with betrayal.

Jaime: There are no Tarbecks or Reynes.

Roose: My point precisely.

—Roose Bolton and Jaime Lannister

Every great lord has unruly bannermen who envy him his place. My father had the Reynes and the Tarbecks, the Tyrells have the Florents, Hoster Tully had Walder Frey. Only strength keeps such men in their place.

—Jaime Lannister to Brienne Tarth