Serjeant
Serjeant[1][2][3] or Sergeant[4][5][6] is a rank of command used in many armed forces, such as the gold cloaks, and other organizations.
Culture
The free companies, such as the Golden Company and the Second Sons, have the rank of serjeant, which indicates a high-ranking officer.[7] Slave soldiers can also be made serjeants.[8]
Great houses also have serjeants, such as Beron for House Dustin.[9]
History
Prince Daemon Targaryen enlisted the help of a former serjeant in the City Watch, known now only as Blood, to slay one of the sons of King Aegon II Targaryen, which he did, beheading Prince Jaehaerys.[10]
During the regency of Aegon III, Grand Maester Orwyle hid and worked at Mother's under the alias of Old Wyl, but his identity was revealed when one of the whores he had been teaching how to read revealed her literacy to a serjeant of the City Watch.[11]
Recent events
A Clash of Kings
Allar Deem is Janos Slynt's chief sergeant.[12]
A Storm of Swords
Brown Ben Plumm, a sergeant in the Second Sons,[13] is elected as the company's new captain after the battle near Yunkai.[14] On one occasion, Ben Plumm discovered a fortune of coins hidden in the leather armor of a dead sellsword, but he naively told a fellow sellsword whom he believed a friend, who in turn told their sergeant, and his colleagues relieved Ben of his fortune.[15]
When Sandor Clegane and Arya Stark try to sneak into the Twins with a wayn filled with pickled pigs feet, they are stopped by a Bolton sergeant and told to bring their load to Sedgekins.[6]
When Samwell Tarly seeks out Cotter Pyke, the commander is found in the Shieldhall dicing with three of his men from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea and a red-headed sergeant serving Stannis Baratheon.[16]
A Feast for Crows
Brienne of Tarth encounters a serjeant at the gates of Maidenpool, who was wearing the peacock of House Serrett.[1]
A Dance with Dragons
Hugh Hungerford was the Windblown's paymaster until he was caught stealing from the war chest, so the Tattered Prince demoted him to serjeant.[17]
Daario Naharis, the captain of the Stormcrows, claims to have killed one of his serjeants who wanted to defect to the Yunkai'i.[18]
Encamped south of Volon Therys, the serjeants of the Golden Company become frustrated by Illyrio Mopatis's constantly changing plans when they learn that the unaware Daenerys Targaryen has stayed in Meereen, so they decide to swear allegiance to Aegon VI Targaryen and join him in an invasion of Westeros, hoping that once Daenerys learns of their purpose, she will come west and join them.[19] During the subsquent landing of the Golden Company in the stormlands and the Stepstones, the sellswords quickly take several castles, including Griffin's Roost, whose garrison includes a grizzled serjeant blind in one eye.[20]
Having been accused of cannibalism and sentenced to be burned alive, a serjeant from House Peasebury, desiring a quick death, levies insults at the queen's men, including Ser Godry Farring, Corliss Penny, and Clayton Suggs, with the latter being goaded into cutting the serjeant's throat, while Penny lights the pyres with his torch, burning the body of the serjeant.[21]
Known serjeants
Serjeants of the Golden Company
Other serjeants
- Beron, for House Dustin[9]
- Blood, for the City Watch of King's Landing[23]
- Hugh Hungerford, for the Windblown.[7]
- Scar, for Yezzan zo Qaggaz.[8]
- Snatch, for the Second Sons.[7]
- Uhlan, for the Second Sons.[7]
Lieutenant
Lieutenant[24][13] is also a rank of command used in many armed forces, but far less common. Soon after Cortnay Penrose's death, his lieutenant, Lord Elwood Meadows, names himself castellan and surrenders the castle to Stannis.[24]
Known lieutenants
- Elwood Meadows, for House Meadows[24]
- Utt, for the Brave Companions[13]
- Urswyck, for the Brave Companions[13]
Quotes
Quotes about serjeants
Day or night, the benches below the salt were never less than half-full with men drinking, dicing, talking, or sleeping in their clothes in quiet corners. Their serjeants would kick them awake when it came their turn to shrug back into their cloaks and walk the walls.[9]
—Theon Greyjoy's thoughts
Sour and saturnine, with a maimed hand Hungerford had been a company paymaster for a time, until the Tattered Prince had caught him stealing from the coffers and removed three of his fingers. Now he was just a serjeant.[17]
—Quentyn Martell's thoughts
They were hard men, brusque and brutal and not well spoken, with scars and weathered faces that spoke of long service in the free companies.[22]
Quotes by serjeants
Corliss Penny, come over here. What sort of name is Penny? Is that how much your mother charged?[21]
—Peasebury serjeant to Corliss Penny
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 14, Brienne III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 3, Jon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 6, The Merchant's Man.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 17, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 10, Davos II.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 50, Arya X.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 57, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 41, The Turncloak.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 50, Daenerys VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 78, Samwell V.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 25, The Windblown.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 36, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Arianne II (The Winds of Winter)
- ↑ The Princess and the Queen.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 45, Catelyn VI.