House Greenfield
House Greenfield of Greenfield | |
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Coat of arms |
A white double-tressure, on a green field (Vert, a double-tressure argent) |
Seat | Greenfield |
Head | Garth Greenfield |
Region | Westerlands |
Title | The Knight of Greenfield |
Overlord | House Lannister |
House Greenfield of Greenfield is a house of landed knights sworn to Casterly Rock. The exact location of Greenfield in the westerlands has not been disclosed yet.
Neither their arms or their words appear in the books, but according to semi-canon sources they blazon their shield as a double tressure white on green.[1]
Contents
History
The Greenfields are an ancient line, dating back to the days of the First Men. During the Age of Heroes they built the Bower, a weirwood castle now called Greenfield.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Ser Garth Greenfield is taken captive in the battle in the Whispering Wood, probably by a Blackwood, since he spends the rest of the War of the Five Kings as a prisoner at Raventree Hall.[3]
A Clash of Kings
Sansa Stark dislikes Ser Preston Greenfield of the Kingsguard because he treats her like a lackwit child.[4] Preston is stabbed and hacked brutally during the riot of King's Landing. He is last seen trying to protect the High Septon after his litter had been overturned. The discovery of his remains takes longer than expected due to their deplorable condition.[5]
A Feast for Crows
When pondering on the celibacy vows of the Kingsguard, Ser Arys Oakheart remembers how Preston used to go to a draper's house when the draper was away.[6]
House Greenfield at the end of the third century
The known Greenfields during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Ser Garth Greenfield, the Knight of Greenfield.
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch of the house there is:
- Ser {Preston Greenfield}, a member of King Robert I Baratheon's Kingsguard. Slain by rioters at King's Landing.
References and Notes
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Westerlands
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Westerlands.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 2, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 41, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 13, The Soiled Knight.
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