Editing Purple Wedding (section)

==Aftermath==
[[File:Magali-VilleneuvePurple Wedding.jpg|thumb|350px|Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] holding the body of her son, King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]], by Magali Villeneuve ©]]
A drunken Ser [[Dontos Hollard]] helps [[Sansa Stark]] escape the [[Red Keep]], and [[Oswell Kettleblack]] rows them into [[Blackwater Bay]]. When they reach a waiting ship, however, Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] has Dontos killed by Ser [[Lothor Brune]]'s men.{{ref|ASOS|61}} Petyr and Sansa sail on ''[[Merling King]]'' to the [[Fingers]]. Once at [[Drearfort|Petyr's tower]], Sansa learns that her silver hair net secretly contained poison within its amethysts. [[Olenna Tyrell]] took the poison from an unsuspecting Sansa when she straightened the girl's hair during the celebration. Sansa determines that the poison was then put into Joffrey's wine, and Petyr explains he had plotted Joffrey's death so that [[Margaery Tyrell]] could marry Joffrey's younger brother, [[Tommen Baratheon]].{{ref|ASOS|68}} According to [[George R. R. Martin]], the conspirators wanted Joffrey to appear to die accidentally by choking, rather than a public assassination like the [[Red Wedding]].<ref name=EW/> 

[[Tyrion Lannister]], Sansa's husband, is also falsely implicated. While in custody, he believes that Sansa had poisoned Joffrey with other conspirators.{{ref|ASOS|66}} At the start of his trial, Tyrion states that Joffrey had accidentally choked to death on the pie.{{ref|ASOS|66}} Maesters [[Ballabar]] and [[Frenken]] find no food in Joffrey's throat and concur that he was poisoned, however, and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] testifies that Tyrion killed the king with the [[strangler]].{{ref|ASOS|66}} Lady [[Taena Merryweather]] swears she saw Tyrion drop something into Joffrey's [[wedding chalice]], and [[Lord Estermont]], [[Josmyn Peckledon]], [[Galyeon of Cuy]], and [[Morros Slynt|Morros]] and [[Jothos Slynt]] all recall having seen Tyrion empty the chalice of wine while the king died.{{ref|ASOS|66}}

Tyrion eventually insists upon [[trial by combat]], but he is found guilty after Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] kills [[Oberyn Martell]].{{ref|ASOS|70}} Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] has Lord [[Varys]] help him free Tyrion from the [[black cells]] the night before his execution, however. After Jaime tells his brother about [[Tysha]], the angry Tyrion falsely claims responsibility for Joffrey's death. Before escaping the castle, Tyrion kills his father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]].{{ref|ASOS|77}}

[[Smallfolk]] tell various stories about Joffrey's death, including that Tyrion slit the boy's throat with a dagger and drank his blood from a chalice,{{ref|ASOS|62}} or that Sansa killed Joffrey with a [[magic|spell]] and then escaped the Red Keep by turning into a [[wolf]] with [[bat]] wings.{{ref|ASOS|74}}

With the exception of his mother, [[Cersei Lannister]], Joffrey is not particularly mourned by anyone; even his biological father, Jaime, feels that Joffrey deserved his fate.{{ref|ASOS|72}} Tyrion states that Joffrey would have become a worse king than the Mad King, [[Aerys II Targaryen]].{{ref|ASOS|77}} Ser [[Arys Oakheart]] thinks that the only good thing that could be said of Joffrey was that he was tall and strong for his age.{{ref|AFFC|13}} With poison in mind, Jaime, the [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]], orders Ser [[Boros Blount]] to taste all food for King Tommen I.{{ref|ASOS|67}} The twice-widowed Margaery eventually [[Wedding of Tommen I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell|marries Tommen]].{{ref|AFFC|12}}