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| Character_name = [[File:House Hollard.PNG|50px|left]] Dontos Hollard [[File:House Hollard.PNG|50px|right]]
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| Character_name = [[File:House Hollard.svg|50px|left]] Dontos Hollard [[File:House Hollard.svg|50px|right]]
| image          = [[File:Dontos HBO.jpg|300px]]   
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| image          = [[File:Dontos Hollard.jpg|300px]]   
| image_caption  = Ser Dontos Hollard at King Joffrey's name day celebration.
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| image_caption  = Dontos by Rafal Hrynkiewicz © Fantasy Flight Games
| Alias          = Dontos the Red<br>Dontos the Drunk<br>Florian
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| Alias          = Dontos the Red{{ref|ACOK|2}}<br>Florian{{ref|ACOK|18}}<br>Dontos the Fool{{ref|ASOS|28}}<br>Ser Fool{{ref|ASOS|61}}
| Title          = Ser
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| Title          = [[Knight|Ser]] (stripped)
 
| Allegiance    = [[House Hollard]]
 
| Allegiance    = [[House Hollard]]
 
| Race          =
 
| Race          =
| Culture        =
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| Culture        = [[Crownlands]]
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| Father        = [[Steffon Hollard]]
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| Mother        =  
 
| Spouse        =
 
| Spouse        =
 
| Place_of_Birth =  near [[Duskendale]]  
 
| Place_of_Birth =  near [[Duskendale]]  
| Date_of_Birth  =  
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| Date_of_Birth  = {{Date|261|263}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Dontos Hollard|Dontos Hollard]] calculation.''</ref>
 
| Place_of_Death = [[Blackwater Bay]]
 
| Place_of_Death = [[Blackwater Bay]]
| Date_of_Death  = {{Date|300}}
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| Date_of_Death  = the first day of {{Date|300}}
| Books          = [[A Game of Thrones]] (Appears)<br>[[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears)<br>[[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears)<br>[[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned)
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| Books          = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned)
 
| coat-of-arms  =
 
| coat-of-arms  =
| Played_by      = Tony Way
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| Played_by      = [[w:Tony Way|Tony Way]]
| TV_series      = [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]]
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| TV_series      = [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]
 
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Ser '''Dontos Hollard''' is a [[knight]] serving at the court of [[King's Landing]].  
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Ser '''Dontos Hollard''', called '''Dontos the Red''',{{ref|ACOK|2}} is a [[knight]] and the last surviving member of [[House Hollard]]. In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', he is portrayed by [[w:Tony Way|Tony Way]].
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==Appearance and Character==
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:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Dontos Hollard|Images of Dontos Hollard]]''
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Dontos is a portly man with a thick neck{{ref|ACOK|18}} and pale, skinny legs.{{ref|ACOK|2}} He has blotchy skin and a nose full of broken veins.{{Ref|ACOK|18}}{{Ref|AFFC|4}} The stout{{ref|AFFC|4}} [[knight]] has big round eyes.{{ref|ASOS|28}}
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Dontos is usually drunk,{{Ref|AGOT|57}}{{ref|ACOK|2}}{{ref|ACOK|18}} and his [[wine]] can make him weepy.{{ref|ACOK|52}}
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Dontos's surcoat depicts the arms of [[House Hollard]].{{ref|ASOS|61}} The knight's chestnut stallion has crimson and scarlet silks.{{ref|ACOK|2}}
  
==Character and Appearance==
 
He is a portly average looking man, he is usually drunk.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 57|Chapter 57]], Sansa</ref>
 
 
==History==
 
==History==
Dontos was the only surviving member of [[House Hollard]]. House Hollard was close ally and vassal of [[House Darklyn]]. As a result of the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], both houses were destroyed and their blood exterminated. Only young Dontos was spared because Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] asked for clemency. As Selmy had rescued the king during the Defiance, [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] granted his wish.<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Brienne</ref>
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Dontos was the son of Ser [[Steffon Hollard]], who died of a fever when Dontos was young.{{ref|AFFC|9}}
  
Young Dontos was taken to King's Landing to serve as a squire. He never returned to [[Duskendale]]. <ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Brienne</ref>
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Dontos is the only surviving member of [[House Hollard]], once close allies and vassals of [[House Darklyn]]. As a result of the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], both houses were destroyed and their blood exterminated. Only young Dontos was spared because Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] asked for clemency. As Barristan had rescued [[Aerys II Targaryen]] during the Defiance, the king granted Barristan's wish.{{Ref|AFFC|9}}
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Young Dontos was taken to [[King's Landing]] to serve as a squire. He never returned to [[Duskendale]].{{Ref|AFFC|9}}
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Dontos has won no renown or [[tourney]]s as a knight.{{ref|ACOK|18}}
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
===A Game of Thrones===
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
Ser Dontos stays at court in [[King's Landing]] during the [[War of the Five Kings]].<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 57|Chapter 57]], Sansa</ref>
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Ser Dontos is at court in [[King's Landing]] after King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon's]] ascension to the [[Iron Throne]]. When [[Sansa Stark]], Joffrey's betrothed, comes to plead mercy for her father, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], a drunken Dontos starts to hail her but is warned away by Ser [[Balon Swann]]. Sansa sees Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] chatting with Dontos and Balon.{{Ref|AGOT|57}} Joffrey eventually orders Eddard's execution.{{ref|AGOT|65}}
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===''A Clash of Kings''===
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[[File:Ser Dontos Hollard TheMico.jpg|thumb|Dontos by TheMico ©]]
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Intending to ride in the [[tourney on King Joffrey's name day]] at the [[Red Keep]], Dontos's first match is against [[Lothor Brune]]. However, Dontos is too drunk, arriving in the lists naked except for his breastplate and helm. Dontos gives up chasing his stallion and asks for [[wine]]. Joffrey, taking this as a personal insult, commands that Dontos be put to death via drowning in a cask of wine. However, the pleading of Sansa saves his life, and Dontos is stripped of his [[knight]]hood and made a [[fool]],{{Ref|ACOK|2}} joining [[Moon Boy]].{{ref|ACOK|62}}
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Sansa receives an anonymous note saying, "come to the [[godswood]] tonight if you want to go home".{{Ref|ACOK|18}} In the godswood, Sansa meets Dontos, who promises to help her escape her imprisonment. Drawing inspiration from the tales of [[Florian the Fool]] and [[Jonquil]], Dontos pleads to serve Sansa, and he asks for patience for they can only escape at the right time. Dontos insists they can only meet secretly in the godswood.{{Ref|ACOK|18}} During one visit, Dontos tells Sansa that a friend of his will hire a ship to take them away when the time is right.{{ref|ACOK|52}}
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Dontos wears red and yellow motley.{{ref|ACOK|52}} Since Dontos was unable to ride his destrier at the tourney, Joffrey decrees that the new fool must always be horsed. Dontos uses a broomstick horse as his new steed. He wears tin armor and carries a melon as his morningstar. When Joffrey orders [[Sandor Clegane]] to hit Sansa, Dontos intervenes and whacks the girl on her head with the melon. A displeased Joffrey responds by having Ser [[Boros Blount]] punch and humiliate Sansa.{{ref|ACOK|32}}
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During the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Dontos serves as a fool in the Queen's Ballroom in [[Maegor's Holdfast]], attempting to entertain the ladies taking shelter there by chasing them on his fake horse.{{Ref|ACOK|60}} When the battle appears to go bad for the defenders, Dontos tells Sansa to lock herself in her bedroom.{{ref|ACOK|62}} After the battle ends, a joyous Dontos comes to Sansa's room to tell her that the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] have won with the help of the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]].{{Ref|ACOK|62}}
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It is announced at the award ceremony after the battle that King Joffrey will wed [[Margaery Tyrell]] instead of Sansa. Dontos meets Sansa in the godswood and warns her that she will be Joffrey's hostage, however. The fool says they will flee the night of Joffrey's wedding, and he gives her a silver hair net with black [[amethyst]]s from [[Asshai]].{{Ref|ACOK|65}}
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===''A Storm of Swords''===
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Sansa tells Ser Dontos of the Tyrell plot to marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]], saying she will no longer need his help to escape. Dontos warns her not to trust the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], stating they only want Sansa's claim to [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|ASOS|16}} Dontos informs Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] of this plot, and Petyr then informs Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], the [[Hand of the King]]. Tywin prevents the marriage by plotting to have Sansa married to his son [[Tyrion Lannister]] instead.{{ref|asos|19}} Dontos attends the wedding of Sansa to Tyrion, where he is used as a footstool by Tyrion so that the [[dwarf]] can place the marriage cloak around the shoulders of the much taller Sansa.{{Ref|ASOS|28}} Dontos dances with [[Moon Boy]] during the wedding feast.{{ref|ASOS|28}}
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Sansa continues to meet Dontos secretly in the godswood every night,{{Ref|ASOS|53}}{{Ref|ASOS|58}} where he reassures her that she will escape the night of Joffrey's wedding, what clothing she should prepare for the escape, and that she must wear to the wedding the hair net he gave her.{{Ref|ASOS|61}}
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On the morning of Joffrey's wedding to [[Margaery Tyrell]], Dontos gallops by on his broomstick horse as nobles break their fast in the Queen's Ballroom.{{ref|ASOS|59}} After the wedding, Moon Boy throws dates at Dontos during the wedding feast.{{ref|ASOS|60}} Joffrey [[Purple Wedding|chokes to death]] during the feast, and Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] accuses Tyrion and Sansa—who has already fled the throne room in terror{{ref|ASOS|61}}—of murder.{{ref|ASOS|60}}
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Sansa meets a drunken Dontos in the godswood, and the girl realizes that one of the amethysts from her hair net is missing. Instead of his fool's motley, Dontos has donned his old [[House Hollard|Hollard]] surcoat.{{ref|ASOS|61}} After the pair discretely leave the Red Keep, [[Oswell Kettleblack]] rows them into [[Blackwater Bay]] on a small skiff. Oswell takes the pair to ''[[Merling King]]'', aboard which are Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] and Ser [[Lothor Brune]]. Once Sansa and Oswell board the ship, Dontos asks for his payment of ten thousand [[currency|golden dragons]], as promised by Petyr, before he rows back to the capital. Instead, Petyr orders Dontos killed. Three men step onto the gunwale, raise their crossbows, and fire. One bolt takes Dontos in the chest, while the others rip into his throat and belly. When it is done, Lothor tosses a torch on top of the corpse, burning the skiff with the drunkard.{{ref|ASOS|61}} Petyr justifies the murder to Sansa by claiming that once Dontos had spent his gold on wine, he would have sold the information he had about her to another party. He also tells Sansa he was the one behind Dontos's actions since she saved his life at the tourney.{{Ref|ASOS|61}}
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The [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] unsuccessfully search King's Landing for Dontos and Sansa. During Tyrion's trial for murder, Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] says Joffrey had been poisoned with the [[strangler]].{{ref|ASOS|66}} When [[Varys]] helps Tyrion escape, the [[master of whisperers]] reveals that Dontos and Sansa had been spotted on the serpentine steps of the Red Keep on the night of Joffrey's death, but they have not been seen since.{{ref|ASOS|77}}
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At the [[Drearfort|Baelish tower]] in the [[Fingers]], Petyr tells Sansa that Dontos was not involved in Joffrey's murder, except for making sure that she wore the hair net to the wedding. Petyr instead suggests that [[Olenna Tyrell]] removed the amethyst from Sansa's hair net and poisoned Joffrey.{{Ref|ASOS|68}}
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===''A Feast for Crows''===
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[[Brienne of Tarth]], who has sworn to find and save [[Sansa Stark]], learns that Dontos disappeared from [[King's Landing]] at the same time Sansa did, and decides he must have helped her escape. She searches for Sansa and Dontos, asking travelers if they have seen a highborn maid of three-and-ten with blue eyes and auburn hair, accompanied by a portly man who may be dressed as a fool or a knight.{{Ref|AFFC|4}} Brienne encounters Ser [[Shadrich]] the Mad Mouse, who perceives the identities behind her questions, and tells her he is also seeking Sansa and Dontos for the large reward [[Varys]] has offered.{{Ref|AFFC|4}}
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At [[Duskendale]], Brienne speaks to the [[maester]] of the [[Dun Fort]], who tells her of the [[Defiance of Duskendale]] and the destruction of all of [[House Hollard]] except for Dontos. The maester tells her Dontos never returned to Duskendale, and that if he did help murder King Joffrey, he feels he would hide anywhere but Duskendale. At the [[Seven Swords]], a [[pious dwarf]] tells Brienne that he had seen a fool in motley at [[Maidenpool]].{{ref|AFFC|9}}
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While traveling to Maidenpool, Brienne sees the ruins of a [[Hollard castle]], and she thinks Dontos may have been born there.{{Ref|AFFC|9}} [[Dick Crabb]] guides Brienne from Maidenpool to [[Crackclaw Point]] in search of a fool who had been seeking a ship from [[Westeros]]. At the [[Whispers]], however, Brienne discovers that the fool in question is [[Shagwell]], formerly of the [[Brave Companions]].{{ref|AFFC|20}}
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Pretending to be Alayne Stone at the [[Eyrie]], Sansa remembers Dontos as her poor old drunken [[Florian the Fool|Florian]].{{ref|AFFC|10}}
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==Quotes by Dontos==
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[[File:Dontos HBO.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Tony Way as Dontos in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
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{{Quote|'''Dontos''': I lose. Fetch me some [[wine]].<br>
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'''Joffrey''': A cask from the cellars! I'll see him drowned in it.{{Ref|ACOK|2}}|Dontos and [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]}}
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{{quote|'''Sansa''': You're drunk, aren't you?<br>
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'''Dontos''': Only one cup of [[wine]], to help my courage.{{ref|ACOK|18}}|[[Sansa Stark]] and Dontos}}
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{{Quote|'''Dontos''': I know it's queer, but ... all those years I was a [[knight]], I was truly a [[fool]], and now that I am a fool I think ... I think I may find it in me to be a knight again, sweet lady. And all because of you ... your grace, your courage. You saved me, not only from [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], but from myself. The singers say there was another [[fool]] once who was the greatest [[knight]] of all ...<br>
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'''Sansa''': [[Florian the Fool|Florian]].<br>
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'''Dontos''': Sweet lady, I would be your Florian.{{Ref|ACOK|18}}|Dontos and [[Sansa Stark]]}}
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{{quote|My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.{{ref|ACOK|18}}|Dontos to [[Sansa Stark]]}}
  
===A Clash of Kings===
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{{quote|'''Sansa''': What stones are these?<br>
Intending to ride in the [[Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day]],his first match was against [[Lothor Brune]] but Ser Dontos got too drunk, arriving in the lists unarmored and hardly clothed. King Joffrey took this as a personal insult and commanded that Ser Dontos be put to death via drowning in a cask of wine. However, the pleading of [[Sansa Stark]] saved his life and Ser Dontos was striped of his knighthood and made a fool in motley instead.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 2|Chapter 2]], Sansa</ref>
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'''Dontos''': Black amethysts from [[Asshai]]. The rarest kind, a deep true purple by daylight.<br>
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'''Sansa''': It's very lovely.<br>
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'''Dontos''': Lovelier than you know, sweet child. It's [[magic]], you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for [[Eddard Stark|your father]]. It's home.{{ref|ACOK|65}}|[[Sansa Stark]] and Dontos}}
  
After secretly being contacted by [[Petyr Baelish]], (Baelish learned from [[Lothor Brune]] how Sansa had saved Dontos life and knew Dontos would make an ideal catspaw), Dontos left Sansa a note and promised to help her escape. Drawing inspiration from the tales of [[Florian]], he pleads to serve her and asks for patience for they can only escape at the right time.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 18|Chapter 18]], Sansa</ref>
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==Quotes about Dontos==
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{{quote|A [[fool]]. You're so clever, to see it. He's better fitted to be a fool than a [[knight]], isn't he? You ought to dress him in motley and make him clown for you.{{ref|ACOK|2}}|[[Sansa Stark]] to [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]}}
  
===A Storm of Swords===
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{{Quote|'''Sansa''': You killed him.<br>
Several meetings in the Godswood later, [[Sansa]] tells Ser Dontos of the plot to marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]], Dontos tells Sansa that she would be freed the night of Joffrey's wedding and gives her a hairnet laced with amethysts. On the appointed night, Ser Dontos attended the marriage of Sansa to [[Tyrion Lannister]], where he was used as a footstool by [[Tyrion]] when he went to place his cloak around the shoulders of Sansa. After the death of King Joffrey - poisoned with one of the amethysts - actually [[the Strangler]], of Sansa's hairnet - at his wedding to [[Margaery Tyrell]], Dontos takes Sansa away during the confusion.
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'''Petyr''': My lady, your grief is wasted on such a man as that. He was a sot, and no man's friend.{{Ref|ASOS|61}}|[[Sansa Stark]] and [[Petyr Baelish]]}}
  
Ser Dontos escaped the [[Red Keep]] with Sansa and delivered her to Petyr Baelish, who had been waiting for them on a ship in [[Blackwater Bay]]. Once Sansa had been rowed out and delivered onto the ship Dontos asked for his payment of 10,000 golden dragons, as promised by [[Petyr Baelish]].  Instead Petyr then had Ser Dontos killed, three men stepped onto the gunwale, raised their crossbows, and fired.  One bolt took Dontos in the chest the others ripped into his throat and belly. When it was done [[Lothor Brune]] tossed a torch down on top of the corpse, burying the secret with the drunkard.
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{{Quote|Ser Dontos the Red was a skin of [[wine]] with legs.{{Ref|ASOS|68}}|[[Petyr Baelish]] to [[Sansa Stark]]}}
  
 
==Family==
 
==Family==
 
{{Darklyn Hollard tree}}
 
{{Darklyn Hollard tree}}
  
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==References==
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{{References|2}}
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==External Links==
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* [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dontos_Hollard Dontos Hollard] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki]
  
==References and Notes==
 
{{References|3}}
 
 
[[Category:House Hollard]]
 
[[Category:House Hollard]]
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[[Category:Casualties of the War of the Five Kings|Hollard, Dontos]]
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[[Category:Characters from the Crownlands|Hollard, Dontos]]
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[[Category:Characters killed by Lothor Brune|Hollard, Dontos]]
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[[Category:Characters killed by Petyr Baelish|Hollard, Dontos]]
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[[Category:Deaths by shooting|Hollard, Dontos]]
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[[Category:Followers and collaborators of Petyr Baelish|Hollard, Dontos]]
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[[Category:Members of Robert I Baratheon's court|Hollard, Dontos]]
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House Hollard.svg
Dontos Hollard
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Dontos by Rafal Hrynkiewicz © Fantasy Flight Games

Aliases
Title Ser (stripped)
Allegiance House Hollard
Culture Crownlands
Born 261263 AC[5]
near Duskendale
Died the first day of 300 AC
Blackwater Bay
Father Steffon Hollard
Books

Played by Tony Way
TV series Season 2 | Season 4

Ser Dontos Hollard, called Dontos the Red,[1] is a knight and the last surviving member of House Hollard. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, he is portrayed by Tony Way.

Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Dontos Hollard

Dontos is a portly man with a thick neck[2] and pale, skinny legs.[1] He has blotchy skin and a nose full of broken veins.[2][6] The stout[6] knight has big round eyes.[3]

Dontos is usually drunk,[7][1][2] and his wine can make him weepy.[8]

Dontos's surcoat depicts the arms of House Hollard.[4] The knight's chestnut stallion has crimson and scarlet silks.[1]

History

Dontos was the son of Ser Steffon Hollard, who died of a fever when Dontos was young.[9]

Dontos is the only surviving member of House Hollard, once close allies and vassals of House Darklyn. As a result of the Defiance of Duskendale, both houses were destroyed and their blood exterminated. Only young Dontos was spared because Ser Barristan Selmy asked for clemency. As Barristan had rescued Aerys II Targaryen during the Defiance, the king granted Barristan's wish.[9]

Young Dontos was taken to King's Landing to serve as a squire. He never returned to Duskendale.[9]

Dontos has won no renown or tourneys as a knight.[2]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Ser Dontos is at court in King's Landing after King Joffrey I Baratheon's ascension to the Iron Throne. When Sansa Stark, Joffrey's betrothed, comes to plead mercy for her father, Lord Eddard Stark, a drunken Dontos starts to hail her but is warned away by Ser Balon Swann. Sansa sees Lord Petyr Baelish chatting with Dontos and Balon.[7] Joffrey eventually orders Eddard's execution.[10]

A Clash of Kings

Dontos by TheMico ©

Intending to ride in the tourney on King Joffrey's name day at the Red Keep, Dontos's first match is against Lothor Brune. However, Dontos is too drunk, arriving in the lists naked except for his breastplate and helm. Dontos gives up chasing his stallion and asks for wine. Joffrey, taking this as a personal insult, commands that Dontos be put to death via drowning in a cask of wine. However, the pleading of Sansa saves his life, and Dontos is stripped of his knighthood and made a fool,[1] joining Moon Boy.[11]

Sansa receives an anonymous note saying, "come to the godswood tonight if you want to go home".[2] In the godswood, Sansa meets Dontos, who promises to help her escape her imprisonment. Drawing inspiration from the tales of Florian the Fool and Jonquil, Dontos pleads to serve Sansa, and he asks for patience for they can only escape at the right time. Dontos insists they can only meet secretly in the godswood.[2] During one visit, Dontos tells Sansa that a friend of his will hire a ship to take them away when the time is right.[8]

Dontos wears red and yellow motley.[8] Since Dontos was unable to ride his destrier at the tourney, Joffrey decrees that the new fool must always be horsed. Dontos uses a broomstick horse as his new steed. He wears tin armor and carries a melon as his morningstar. When Joffrey orders Sandor Clegane to hit Sansa, Dontos intervenes and whacks the girl on her head with the melon. A displeased Joffrey responds by having Ser Boros Blount punch and humiliate Sansa.[12]

During the Battle of the Blackwater, Dontos serves as a fool in the Queen's Ballroom in Maegor's Holdfast, attempting to entertain the ladies taking shelter there by chasing them on his fake horse.[13] When the battle appears to go bad for the defenders, Dontos tells Sansa to lock herself in her bedroom.[11] After the battle ends, a joyous Dontos comes to Sansa's room to tell her that the Lannisters have won with the help of the Tyrells.[11]

It is announced at the award ceremony after the battle that King Joffrey will wed Margaery Tyrell instead of Sansa. Dontos meets Sansa in the godswood and warns her that she will be Joffrey's hostage, however. The fool says they will flee the night of Joffrey's wedding, and he gives her a silver hair net with black amethysts from Asshai.[14]

A Storm of Swords

Sansa tells Ser Dontos of the Tyrell plot to marry her to Willas Tyrell, saying she will no longer need his help to escape. Dontos warns her not to trust the Tyrells, stating they only want Sansa's claim to Winterfell.[15] Dontos informs Lord Petyr Baelish of this plot, and Petyr then informs Lord Tywin Lannister, the Hand of the King. Tywin prevents the marriage by plotting to have Sansa married to his son Tyrion Lannister instead.[16] Dontos attends the wedding of Sansa to Tyrion, where he is used as a footstool by Tyrion so that the dwarf can place the marriage cloak around the shoulders of the much taller Sansa.[3] Dontos dances with Moon Boy during the wedding feast.[3]

Sansa continues to meet Dontos secretly in the godswood every night,[17][18] where he reassures her that she will escape the night of Joffrey's wedding, what clothing she should prepare for the escape, and that she must wear to the wedding the hair net he gave her.[4]

On the morning of Joffrey's wedding to Margaery Tyrell, Dontos gallops by on his broomstick horse as nobles break their fast in the Queen's Ballroom.[19] After the wedding, Moon Boy throws dates at Dontos during the wedding feast.[20] Joffrey chokes to death during the feast, and Queen Cersei Lannister accuses Tyrion and Sansa—who has already fled the throne room in terror[4]—of murder.[20]

Sansa meets a drunken Dontos in the godswood, and the girl realizes that one of the amethysts from her hair net is missing. Instead of his fool's motley, Dontos has donned his old Hollard surcoat.[4] After the pair discretely leave the Red Keep, Oswell Kettleblack rows them into Blackwater Bay on a small skiff. Oswell takes the pair to Merling King, aboard which are Lord Petyr Baelish and Ser Lothor Brune. Once Sansa and Oswell board the ship, Dontos asks for his payment of ten thousand golden dragons, as promised by Petyr, before he rows back to the capital. Instead, Petyr orders Dontos killed. Three men step onto the gunwale, raise their crossbows, and fire. One bolt takes Dontos in the chest, while the others rip into his throat and belly. When it is done, Lothor tosses a torch on top of the corpse, burning the skiff with the drunkard.[4] Petyr justifies the murder to Sansa by claiming that once Dontos had spent his gold on wine, he would have sold the information he had about her to another party. He also tells Sansa he was the one behind Dontos's actions since she saved his life at the tourney.[4]

The Lannisters unsuccessfully search King's Landing for Dontos and Sansa. During Tyrion's trial for murder, Grand Maester Pycelle says Joffrey had been poisoned with the strangler.[21] When Varys helps Tyrion escape, the master of whisperers reveals that Dontos and Sansa had been spotted on the serpentine steps of the Red Keep on the night of Joffrey's death, but they have not been seen since.[22]

At the Baelish tower in the Fingers, Petyr tells Sansa that Dontos was not involved in Joffrey's murder, except for making sure that she wore the hair net to the wedding. Petyr instead suggests that Olenna Tyrell removed the amethyst from Sansa's hair net and poisoned Joffrey.[23]

A Feast for Crows

Brienne of Tarth, who has sworn to find and save Sansa Stark, learns that Dontos disappeared from King's Landing at the same time Sansa did, and decides he must have helped her escape. She searches for Sansa and Dontos, asking travelers if they have seen a highborn maid of three-and-ten with blue eyes and auburn hair, accompanied by a portly man who may be dressed as a fool or a knight.[6] Brienne encounters Ser Shadrich the Mad Mouse, who perceives the identities behind her questions, and tells her he is also seeking Sansa and Dontos for the large reward Varys has offered.[6]

At Duskendale, Brienne speaks to the maester of the Dun Fort, who tells her of the Defiance of Duskendale and the destruction of all of House Hollard except for Dontos. The maester tells her Dontos never returned to Duskendale, and that if he did help murder King Joffrey, he feels he would hide anywhere but Duskendale. At the Seven Swords, a pious dwarf tells Brienne that he had seen a fool in motley at Maidenpool.[9]

While traveling to Maidenpool, Brienne sees the ruins of a Hollard castle, and she thinks Dontos may have been born there.[9] Dick Crabb guides Brienne from Maidenpool to Crackclaw Point in search of a fool who had been seeking a ship from Westeros. At the Whispers, however, Brienne discovers that the fool in question is Shagwell, formerly of the Brave Companions.[24]

Pretending to be Alayne Stone at the Eyrie, Sansa remembers Dontos as her poor old drunken Florian.[25]

Quotes by Dontos

Tony Way as Dontos in Game of Thrones

Dontos: I lose. Fetch me some wine.
Joffrey: A cask from the cellars! I'll see him drowned in it.[1]

—Dontos and Joffrey I Baratheon

Sansa: You're drunk, aren't you?
Dontos: Only one cup of wine, to help my courage.[2]

Sansa Stark and Dontos

Dontos: I know it's queer, but ... all those years I was a knight, I was truly a fool, and now that I am a fool I think ... I think I may find it in me to be a knight again, sweet lady. And all because of you ... your grace, your courage. You saved me, not only from Joffrey, but from myself. The singers say there was another fool once who was the greatest knight of all ...

Sansa: Florian.

Dontos: Sweet lady, I would be your Florian.[2]

—Dontos and Sansa Stark

My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.[2]

—Dontos to Sansa Stark

Sansa: What stones are these?

Dontos: Black amethysts from Asshai. The rarest kind, a deep true purple by daylight.
Sansa: It's very lovely.

Dontos: Lovelier than you know, sweet child. It's magic, you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for your father. It's home.[14]

Sansa Stark and Dontos

Quotes about Dontos

A fool. You're so clever, to see it. He's better fitted to be a fool than a knight, isn't he? You ought to dress him in motley and make him clown for you.[1]

Sansa: You killed him.
Petyr: My lady, your grief is wasted on such a man as that. He was a sot, and no man's friend.[4]

Ser Dontos the Red was a skin of wine with legs.[23]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
Darklyn
 
Unknown
wife
 
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Denys Darklyn
 
Serala of Myr
 
Brothers
 
Sister
 
Jon
Hollard
 
Steffon Hollard
 
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wife
 
Symon Hollard
 
Robin Hollard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Son
 
 
 
 
 
Dontos Hollard
 


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