Editing Cregan Stark (section)

===Later Reign===
[[File:Cregan%27s_Daughters_by_ellemnopie.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Cregan's daughters [[Mariah Stark]], [[Raya Stark]], [[Sarra Stark]], and [[Alys Stark]] by ellemnopie]]
Aegon III granted many rewards to Cregan, although a [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] princess never did marry into [[House Stark]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Lords of Winterfell}} Maester [[Kennet (maester)|Kennet]] served at [[Winterfell]] during Cregan's long reign.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}}

Cregan once fought Prince [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon the Dragonknight]], who praised Lord Stark's skill by stating he never faced a finer swordsman.{{Ref|AGOT|66}}

Cregan's second wife Alysanne Blackwood bore him four daughters, though Rickon - his son and only child by his first wife - was his heir. At some unspecified point in later decades Alysanne died, however, and Cregan married for a third time, to [[Lynara Stark]]. Lynara was a distant minor Stark cousin, descending from a younger son of Lord [[Brandon Stark (the Boisterous)|Brandon "the Boisterous" Stark]] (who himself succeeded [[Torrhen Stark]], the last Stark king). Lynara went on to bear Cregan four sons and one daughter: due to male-preference inheritance law, all four sons stood in line of succession ahead of their four older half-sisters through Aly Blackwood. 

Cregan had a long life, which earned him the nickname of "The Old Man in the North". The exact date of Cregan's death has not yet been provided, though because he came to rule young (as soon as he turned sixteen in 126 AC) and lived to be quite old, he ruled over the North for a considerable span of decades. Cregan was still alive in 157 AC, and thus he ruled the North for at least thirty years. In 157 AC Cregan would have been 49 years of age, not yet a very old man. It is possible, though unlikely, that Cregan may have lived until the time of the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{Date|196}} - as Cregan would have been 88 years old in that year.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Lords of Winterfell}}

Cregan is entombed in the [[crypt of Winterfell]].{{Ref|AGOT|66}}{{Ref|ACOK|69}}