Editing Iron Islands (section)

===The Greyiron dynasty===
Upon the death of High King [[Urragon III Greyiron]], his younger sons convened a kingsmoot which chose [[Urrathon IV Goodbrother]], although Urragon's elder son, [[Torgon Greyiron]], was away raiding the [[Reach]]. Supported by priests unhappy with Urrathon's tyranny, Torgon declared the kingsmoot invalid when he returned to the Iron Islands, and the so-called Badbrother was overthrown. Although Torgon the Latecomer was wise, the ironborn were still in decline and the [[Cape of Eagles]] was lost to the [[House Mallister|Mallisters]] of [[Seagard]]. Torgon had his son rule alongside him for several years, and [[Urragon IV Greyiron]] thus also became High King without being chosen in a kingsmoot.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns}}
  
The dying wish of Urragon IV was that the high kingship pass to his great-nephew [[Urron Greyiron]], salt king of Orkmont. When the priests insisted that a kingsmoot be held at [[Old Wyk]], Urron had his men slaughter those who attended, including thirteen other kings and half a hundred priests.{{Ref|ACOK|11}} Urron Redhand established the hereditary rule of [[House Greyiron]] over the Iron Islands. Instead of being called High Kings, they titled themselves [[King of the Iron Islands]] and wore iron crowns. Abolishing the system of rock and salt kings, the Greyirons reduced other ironborn kings to vassal [[lord]]s and extinguished families who refused to submit.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}
 
While the driftwood kings were elected by consent of the lords and captains, the iron kings led to infighting among the ironborn, which the priests were unable to stop. The Greyirons faced half a dozen major rebellions, numerous smaller insurrections and insubordinations, and at least two major [[thrall]] uprisings.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}

The stronger and larger kingdoms of the [[green lands]] took advantage of the ironborn's disunity to take back conquests on mainland [[Westeros]]. For instance, [[Garth VII Gardener]], [[King of the Reach]], drove the ironmen from the [[Shield Islands]] and fortified them to prevent ironborn raids up the [[Mander]].{{Ref|AFFC|29}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}
  
Unlike the First Men, the [[Andals]] built strong ships capable of fighting ironborn longships. During the [[coming of the Andals]], wooden stockades of the First Men with replaced with stone castles throughout the [[Reach]], the [[riverlands]], and the [[westerlands]], new defenses against the lightning raids of the ironborn. All of their possessions lost, the Greyirons barely held on to power, and the isles increasingly divided into civil wars. After a thousand years of hereditary rule, the Greyirons fell to a coalition of ironborn lords and Andal adventurers, who often intermarried with the natives of the Iron Islands.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands: The Iron Kings}}