Editing House Hightower (section)

===Hightower Kings===
[[File:Urrigon Hightower.png|thumb|200px|[[Urrigon Hightower]], from ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': ''Histories & Lore'']]
The family is ancient, existing since the [[dawn of days]] when they were petty-kings. While most scholars believe they descend from the [[First Men]], Maester [[Yandel]] posits they descend from the seafarers and traders that settled at the top of the [[Whispering Sound]] in an earlier time, men who came to [[Westeros]] before the First Men and seem to have founded the original incarnation of [[Oldtown]]. Whatever the truth, the Hightowers resided in the ancient [[black stone]] fortress of [[Battle Isle]] at the mouth of the [[Honeywine]] before the "Hightower" of stone was built.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Oldtown}}

The Hightowers built four successive wooden beacon towers atop the fortress. The legendary King [[Uthor of the High Tower]] is said to have commissioned [[Bran the Builder]] or his son [[Brandon Stark (son of Bran the Builder)|Brandon]] to design the fifth tower, one built entirely of stone. Uthor's sons, King [[Urrigon Hightower|Urrigon]] and Prince [[Peremore Hightower|Peremore the Twisted]], were integral in the foundation of the [[Citadel]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Oldtown}}{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}}

During these early days Oldtown was threatened and sacked many times, including by [[ironborn]] raiders, [[Dornishmen]], and the armies of the [[Kings of the Reach]], [[House Gardener]] of [[Highgarden]]. The Kings of the High Tower raised strong walls and higher towers to keep any further invaders out. Oldtown was not brought into the realm of the Gardeners by conquest, but by marriage, during the reigns of King [[Lymond Hightower]] and King [[Garland II Gardener]]. Lymond the Sea Lion wed the daughter of Garland, while Garland put aside his own wives to marry Lymond's daughter.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: The Gardener Kings}}