Editing House Manderly (section)

===Exile and White Harbor===
[[File:Manderly knight by manzanedo.jpg|thumb|House Manderly knight, by Antonio José Manzanedo © Fantasy Flight Games]]
At some point, House Manderly overreached itself, and was driven from the Reach by the [[House Gardener|Gardeners]].{{Ref|ADWD|9}}{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|AWOIAF|White Harbor}} According to Maester [[Yandel]], the exile of House Manderly is credited to Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] upon the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]], who feared the Manderlys' growing influence and power in the Reach.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderlys' seat of [[Dunstonbury]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}}

Bringing their wealth with them, the Manderlys fled to the [[north]], where they were welcomed by the [[House Stark|Starks]] of [[Winterfell]] as their own bannermen.{{Ref|ADWD|19}} The Starks awarded the [[Wolf's Den]] to the Manderlys and tasked them with defending the [[White Knife]] in return for swearing an oath that they would always be loyal subjects of House Stark. This history instilled the Manderlys with great loyalty to their new liege lords.{{Ref|ADWD|19}}

When exactly House Manderly came north is unknown. In {{Date|211}}, Lady [[Rohanne Webber]] dated the flight of the Manderlys as having occurred "a thousand years" ago.{{Ref|TSS}} Lord [[Godric Borrell]] defines the time period to "no more than nine hundred years" before {{Date|300}}.{{Ref|ADWD|9}} However, both [[Wylla Manderly]], as well as Maester Yandel date the arrival of the Manderlys in the north back a bit further, "a thousand years before [[Aegon's Conquest|the Conquest]]"{{Ref|ADWD|19}} and "some thousand years before the Conquest",{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} respectively. A semi-canon source lists "a thousand years before the Conquest" as well.{{Ref|AWOIAF|White Harbor}} These accounts thus place the arrival of the Manderlys in the north between 1000 BC and 600 BC.

House Manderly built the city of [[White Harbor]] with the wealth they had brought from the Reach.{{Ref|ADWD|19}} They further developed it over the following centuries.{{Ref|ADWD|19}} It is the smallest of the five cities of [[Westeros]], and is the main northern port for commerce and naval transport.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} Until the construction of [[King's Landing]] during the Conquest (by then still known as the [[Aegonfort]]), White Harbor was also the newest city of the Seven Kingdoms.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} The [[New Castle]], built to replace the aging Wolf's Den, resembles their previous castle Dunstonbury in the Reach.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} The Manderlys are one of the few great houses of the north to follow the [[Faith of the Seven]] instead of the [[old gods]] and thus have a strong tradition of [[knight]]hood.{{Ref|AGOT|53}}