House Lothston
House Lothston of Harrenhal | |
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Coat of arms | Party per bend argent and or, a bat displayed sable |
Seat | Harrenhal |
Head | Extinct |
Region | The Riverlands |
Title | Lord of Harrenhal |
Overlord | House Tully |
Died out | After 212 AL |
House Lothston of Harrenhal is an extinct house of the Riverlands. They held Harrenhal until 3 or 4 generations before the events in the books and were a powerful House which once loomed large in the histories of the Seven Kingdoms. [1]
Their arms were a black bat on a field divided bendwise, silver and gold.[2][3]
Contents
About
The Lothstons always had a bad reputation. According to Ser Eustace Osgrey, Manfred Lothston betrayed Daemon Blackfyre. [4]
Lady Danelle Lothston was said to send giant bats out to capture children for her cookpots, and a mad Lady Lothston (possibly Danelle) is said to have bathed in blood and feasted on flesh.[5]
The last Lothston was killed with the help of an ancestor of Ser Illifer the Penniless in unknown circumstances.[6] After the line ended the lordship of Harrenhal was given to House Whent.
Ben Blackthumb had worked as a boy for Lord Lothston (and for the grandfather and father of Lady Whent. [7]
The Lothston house at the end of third century
The known Lothstons during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Jon Lothston, an exile serving with the Golden Company. He may or not be genuinely of House Lothston, in the free companies a man can call himself whatever he chooses.
Historical Lothstons
- Lady Danelle Lothston, called the Mad.
- Lord Lucas Lothston, called the Pander
- Manfryd Lothston, o' the Black Hood, Lucas's son.
- Manfred Lothston
- Jeyne Lothston, one of Aegon IV's mistresses.
References in the books
Dunk and Egg
- Manfred Lothston betrayed Daemon Blackfyre.
- When Lord Bloodraven marched on Whitewalls to quash the Second Blackfyre Rebellion, among the Riverlords who came in support was Lady Danelle Lothston.
A Song of Ice and Fire
- Ben Blackthumb smithed for the last Lord of House Lothston.
- House Lothston was wiped out during the lifetime of the great-great grandfather of Ser Illifer the Penniless.
- The house was known for black deeds.
- Ser Jaime Lannister used a shield found in the armory of Harrenhal with the arms of House Lothston on his ride back to King's Landing.
- The Lothstons had held Harrenhal before House Whent.
- House Lothston had been a powerful family in its day.
- Lord Lucas and his son Manfryd were renown for their black deeds.
- An old story told to misbehaving children was that on moonless nights, bats would fly out from Harrenhal and carry the bad children back to Mad Danelle.
- Petyr Baelish uses the extinction of House Lothston as an example of the fate of those who claim to own Harrenhal.
- Ser Jaime remembers the stories of Lady Lothston who bathed in tubs of blood and had feasts of human flesh.
Other Sources
- Jeyne Lothston was the eighth of Aegon IV's mistresses.
References and Notes
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 44, Jaime
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne
- ↑ The Sworn Sword, page 76
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 27, Jaime
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya
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