Jonos Bracken
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| Title | Lord of the Stone Hedge | |||
| Allegiance | House Bracken | |||
| Culture | Rivermen | |||
| Born | Stone Hedge[1] | |||
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| Lover | Hildy | |||
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| Played by | Gerry O'Brien | |||
| TV series | Game of Thrones: Season 1 | |||
Jonos Bracken is the Lord of the Stone Hedge and the head of House Bracken.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Jonos is portrayed by Gerry O'Brien.
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Appearance and Character
Jonos is heavier than Ser Jaime Lannister, but not as tall. He has brown eyes, coarse brown hair (including on his back), and thick shoulders and arms.[2] He often glowers and blusters.[3][2] According to Lord Tytos Blackwood, Jonos is not comely.[2]
Lord Bracken wears a brown woolen tunic embroidered with the red stallion of House Bracken. When ready for combat, he wears plate and mail and a grey steel greathelm with a horsehair crest.[2]
History
Jonos has five daughters from his three marriages, and a bastard son, Harry Rivers. However, his rival, Lord Tytos Blackwood, does not believe that Harry was fathered by Jonos.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Before arresting Tyrion Lannister at the crossroads inn, Lady Catelyn Stark has Bracken men-at-arms affirm that Jonos is loyal to her father, Hoster Tully, the Lord Paramount of the Trident.[4]
After the death of King Robert I Baratheon, the Iron Throne decrees that Jonos and other river lords swear fealty to the new king, his successor, Joffrey I Baratheon.[5] Lord Tywin Lannister sends Ser Gregor Clegane to attack Jonos's castle, and the Mountain rapes one of Lord Bracken's daughters[2] during the burning of Stone Hedge.[3]
After the siege of Riverrun is broken in the Battle of the Camps, Jonos returns from ruined Stone Hedge. At Robb Stark's war council in the Great Hall of Riverrun, he sits as far away as possible from his rival, Tytos Blackwood, Lord of Raventree Hall. Jonos suggests allying with King Renly Baratheon against King Joffrey and the Lannisters, and surprisingly agrees with Tytos in denying Catelyn's suggestion of peace. Jonos joins the other river lords in declaring Robb to be King in the North[3] and King of the Trident.[6]
A Clash of Kings
During the liberation of Stone Hedge, Lord Jonos is wounded and his nephew, Hendry, is slain.[7]
Jonos agrees with his rival, Lord Blackwood, that Ser Edmure Tully has devised a good plan to trap Lord Tywin Lannister in the riverlands.[8]
A Storm of Swords
While traveling by a burned inn in Bracken lands, Brienne of Tarth, Ser Cleos Frey, and Ser Jaime Lannister find the bodies of tavern wenches hanged for having slept with Lannister troops; Jaime wonders if Lord Bracken had ordered them killed.[9]
Jonos's natural son, Harry Rivers, is revealed to have been killed by the Lannisters.[10]
Jonos is cold toward Catelyn because she released Jaime, Robb's captive.[11] Lord Bracken takes part in the launching of Lord Hoster Tully's funeral boat with six other nobles at Riverrun.[12]
Tywin expects that Jonos will yield after the Red Wedding.[13] A dozen of Jonos's own kin are killed at the event.[2] After Joffrey's death, the new king, Tommen I Baratheon, pardons Jonos for his part in the War of the Five Kings.[14]
A Feast for Crows
Lord Jonos besieges Raventree Hall on behalf of the Iron Throne. After Jaime resolves the siege of Riverrun, Lord Karyl Vance implores him to intervene at Raventree since Lord Tytos Blackwood will never surrender to Jonos.[15]
A Dance with Dragons
Ser Jaime Lannister arrives to end the siege of Raventree, finding Jonos abed in his tent with a common woman named Hildy. When Jaime inquires about Lady Bracken, Jones responds that she spends all her time praying after Stone Hedge was burned.[2]
Jonos hands Jaime a map with the lands he wants for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood, along with compensation for the damage Ser Gregor Clegane and the Mountain's men did to his land and family. Jaime points out Jonos has not subdued Tytos and that letting him keep his head after initially declaring for House Stark seems recompense enough for the damage caused by Gregor, who is already dead. Jonos insists that he will keep faith with the crown as he did with the Starks.[2]
During his surrender to Jaime, Tytos agrees to surrender a smaller portion of Blackwood land than requested by Lord Bracken. Jonos is also unhappy that Jaime is taking one of Tytos's sons, Hoster, as a hostage instead of his only daughter, Bethany. Jaime upsets Jonos by ordering him to send one of his own daughters to attend Queen Regent Cersei Lannister at court in King's Landing.[2]
Quotes by Jonos
Gregor Clegane laid waste to my fields, slaughtered my smallfolk, and left Stone Hedge a smoking ruin. Am I now to bend the knee to the ones who sent him? What have we fought for, if we are to put all back as it was before?[3]
—Jonos at Robb Stark's war council
Jonos: You took me unawares, my lord. I was not told of your coming.
Jaime: And I seem to have prevented yours.[2]—Jonos and Jaime Lannister
Aye, I kept faith with the Young Wolf. As I'll keep faith with you, so long as you treat me fair. I bent the knee because I saw no sense in dying for the dead nor shedding Bracken blood in a lost cause.[2]
—Jonos to Jaime Lannister
Quotes about Jonos
Family
| Unknown woman | Jonos | Unknown second wife | Sibling(s) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unknown first wife | Lady Bracken | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harry Rivers | Barbara | Jayne | Catelyn | Bess | Alysanne | Hendry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Jonos Bracken.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 48, Jaime I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 28, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 7, Catelyn I.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 1, Jaime I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 34, Arya VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 53, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 72, Jaime IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 44, Jaime VII.