House Vikary
| House Vikary | |
|---|---|
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| Coat of arms |
Quarterly: a red boar's head on a white field; beneath a gold bend sinister, a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, with gold teeth and claws, on a red field (Quarterly, first and fourth, argent, a boar's head couped gules, second and third, gules, a lion rampant regardant queue-forché argent, armed and langued or, debruised by a bend sinister of the last) |
| Head | Ser Lymond Vikary |
| Region | The Westerlands |
| Overlord | House Lannister |
House Vikary is a house of landed knights sworn to Casterly Rock.[1]
According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with quarterly: a red boar's head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red.[2] Their words are not known.
Contents
Origin
The use of the reverse colors of the Reynes arms in the second and third quarters beneath a bend sinister may indicate that the founder of the house was either a Reyne bastard or a descendant of a Reyne bastard. It is also possibile that the red boar indicates a relation with House Crakehall, whose arms depict a black and white brindled boar.
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
The news of the Battle of Oxcross that reaches King's Landing reports that Ser Lymond Vikary had been slain.[3]
A Storm of Swords
Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at Wayfarer's Rest.[4]
A Feast for Crows
Lord Karyl Vance of Wayfarer's Rest bends the knee to the Iron Throne after the Red Wedding and joins House Lannister in the siege of Riverrun.[5] Ser Lymond is presumably released from his imprisonment at Karyl's castle.
Brienne of Tarth and her companions see the corpses of the perpetrators of the raid on Saltpans hanged from trees. Among the dead is a man with a badge depicting a boar's heads sewn on his breast, presumably a Vikary man-at-arms who became a broken man during the War of the Five Kings.[6]
House Vikary at the end of the third century
The known Vikarys during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Ser Lymond Vikary, head of house Vikary.
Behind the Scenes
House Vikary is a reference by George R. R. Martin to Jaan Vikary, a character in his first novel, Dying of the Light.
References
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Westerlands
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 32, Sansa III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
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