Editing Poor Fellows (section)

==History==
The red star of the Poor Fellows had its origins in the days of the [[Andal invasion]] of [[Westeros]], when zealous warriors carved the seven-pointed star into their chests.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Arrival of the Andals}}

Acting as a militant counterpart to [[begging brothers]], Poor Fellows became defenders of wayfarers on the road, escorting pilgrims between [[sept]]s. They greatly outnumbered their [[knight]]ly counterparts in the [[Faith Militant]], the [[Warrior's Sons]].{{Ref|AFFC|28}}

The Poor Fellows were of a humbler social background than the Warrior's Sons.{{Ref|AFFC|28}} Women could rise to be leaders of the Poor Fellows: one of the most famous examples was [[Poxy Jeyne Poore]], who led the Poor Fellows in the [[stormlands]] during the Faith Militant uprising, and was considered one of their most savage captains.{{Ref|FAB|The Sons of the Dragon}}

Despite not being as trained, disciplined, or well-armed as the Warrior's Sons, the Poor Fellows formed the bulk of the Faith's army. They were lightly-armed footmen who carried whatever weapons they could make or find, often axes or cudgels, and they wore star badges, red on surcoats bleached white. Some even scourged or branded the seven-pointed star in their flesh.{{Ref|AFFC|28}}{{Ref|ADWD|65}} 

At the start of the [[Faith Militant uprising]] in {{Date|41}}, Poor Fellows slew Septon [[Murmison]] for performing the incestual marriage of Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Aenys I)|Aegon Targaryen]] to Princess [[Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Aenys I)|Rhaena Targaryen]], both children of King [[Aenys I Targaryen]]. Poor Fellows also tried to assassinate the Targaryens at their manse in [[Visenya's Hill]],{{Ref|FAB|The Sons of the Dragon}} but were stopped by a [[knight]] of the [[Kingsguard]].<ref group="N">Ser [[Raymont Baratheon]], according to ''[[The World of Ice & Fire]]''. In ''[[Fire & Blood]]'' the knight is unnamed. The character's name will be removed from future editions of ''The World of Ice & Fire''.</ref>{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: House Baratheon}} They also surrounded [[Crakehall]] while Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena took refuge there.{{Ref|FAB|The Sons of the Dragon}}

Members of the order were brutally suppressed by King [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor the Cruel]] because of their involvement in the rebellions. Maegor achieved a great victory over the Poor Fellows in the [[battle of Stonebridge]], and defeated thirteen hundred of them at the Great Fork of the [[Blackwater Rush|Blackwater]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Maegor I}} An unnamed [[septon]] wrote a discourse on Maegor the Cruel's war against the Poor Fellows.{{Ref|AFFC|11}}

Maegor outlawed the militant orders, offering a [[Currency|silver stag coin]] for an unrepentant Poor Fellow.{{Ref|AFFC|33}} Support for Maegor declined in {{Date|48}}, however, when [[Riverrun]] supported Septon [[Moon (septon)|Moon]] and Ser [[Joffrey Doggett]] of the Poor Fellows. Lord [[Daemon Velaryon (son of Aethan)|Daemon Velaryon]] and many [[great houses]] instead supported Prince [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys Targaryen]], and Maegor died on the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Maegor I}} Although outlawed, the Poor Fellows existed until the reign of the Old King, Jaehaerys I. Jaehaerys the Conciliator and Septon [[Barth]] negotiated a peace with the High Septon, however, and the Swords and Stars peacefully disbanded.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys I}} 

Some radicals in the Faith, however, continued to oppose the Targaryens in the early years of Jaehaerys's reign. When the incestuous marriage of Jaehaerys and his sister-wife Alysanne was announced in {{date|50}} it caused further controversy, leading to an assassination attempt by several holy sisters against the pregnant Alysanne when she visited [[Jonquil's Pool]].{{Ref|FAB|Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I}}

It was rumored that some discrete groups of Poor Fellows still existed even decades later - driven underground and secretly preaching along the back roads of the Seven Kingdoms. By the time of the [[Dance of the Dragons]], over eighty years after the order was officially disbanded, there were two instances of anti-Targaryen preachers among the commoners who were suspected of also being Poor Fellows. In {{Date|130}}, during the war itself, the mad prophet known as the [[Shepherd]] rallied thousands of commoners to riot against Targaryen rule in King's Landing, culminating in the [[Storming of the Dragonpit]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}} In {{Date|133}}, in the immediate aftermath of the war, the [[Winter Fever]] struck Westeros - and another suspected Poor Fellow had his tongue removed as punishment for preaching that the Seven had sent the plague as punishment for House Targaryen's incest.{{Ref|FAB|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}} Although both of these preachers made no secret of their hatred for the Targaryens, they never explicitly claimed to be Poor Fellows. Grand Maester [[Munkun]], however, who lived through these events, raised the suggestion in his own account that the Shepherd could plausibly have been a Poor Fellow.