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'''House Vikary''' is a house of [[landed knight]]s sworn to [[Casterly Rock]].{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}}
 
'''House Vikary''' is a house of [[landed knight]]s sworn to [[Casterly Rock]].{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}}
  
Their arms, according to semi-canon sources, are quarterly: a red [[boar]]'s head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red. The reversing in the second and third quarters of the red and silver of the Reyne arms beneath a bend sinister may indicate that the founder of the house was either a [[House Reyne|Reyne]] bastard or a descendant of a Reyne bastard.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Entry/House_Vikary/ House Vikary] on [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/ Westeros]</ref>
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According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with quarterly: a red [[boar]]'s head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver [[lion]] rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/6/ Houses in the Westerlands]</ref> Their words are not known.
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==Origin==
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The use of the reverse colors of the [[House Reyne|Reynes]] arms in the second and third quarters beneath a bend sinister may indicate that the founder of the house was either a Reyne [[bastard]] or a descendant of a Reyne bastard.
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
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===''A Storm of Swords''===
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
 
Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at [[Wayfarer's Rest]].{{Ref|ASOS|Appendix}}
 
Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at [[Wayfarer's Rest]].{{Ref|ASOS|Appendix}}
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===''A Feast for Crows''===
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Lord [[Karyl Vance]] of Wayfarer's Rest bends the knee to the [[Iron Throne]] after the [[Red Wedding]] and joins [[House Lannister]] in the [[siege of Riverrun]].{{Ref|AFFC|38}} Ser Lymond is presumably released from his imprisonment at Karyl's castle.
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[[Brienne of Tarth]] and her companions see the corpses of the perpetrators of the [[raid on Saltpans]] hanged from trees. Among the dead is a man with a badge depicting a boar's heads sewn on his breast, presumably a Vikary man-at-arms who became a [[Broken men|broken man]] during the [[War of the Five Kings]].{{Ref|AFFC|37}}
  
 
==House Vikary at the end of the third century==
 
==House Vikary at the end of the third century==
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Revision as of 21:47, 4 August 2020

House Vikary
House Vikary.svg
Coat of arms Quarterly: a red boar's head on a white field; beneath a gold bend sinister, a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, with gold teeth and claws, on a red field
(Quarterly, first and fourth, argent, a boar's head couped gules, second and third, gules, a lion rampant regardant queue-forché argent, armed and langued or, debruised by a bend sinister of the last)
Head Ser Lymond Vikary
Region The Westerlands
Overlord House Lannister

House Vikary is a house of landed knights sworn to Casterly Rock.[1]

According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with quarterly: a red boar's head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red.[2] Their words are not known.

Origin

The use of the reverse colors of the Reynes arms in the second and third quarters beneath a bend sinister may indicate that the founder of the house was either a Reyne bastard or a descendant of a Reyne bastard.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

The news of the Battle of Oxcross that reaches King's Landing reports that Ser Lymond Vikary had been slain.[3]

A Storm of Swords

Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at Wayfarer's Rest.[4]

A Feast for Crows

Lord Karyl Vance of Wayfarer's Rest bends the knee to the Iron Throne after the Red Wedding and joins House Lannister in the siege of Riverrun.[5] Ser Lymond is presumably released from his imprisonment at Karyl's castle.

Brienne of Tarth and her companions see the corpses of the perpetrators of the raid on Saltpans hanged from trees. Among the dead is a man with a badge depicting a boar's heads sewn on his breast, presumably a Vikary man-at-arms who became a broken man during the War of the Five Kings.[6]

House Vikary at the end of the third century

The known Vikarys during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:

Behind the Scenes

House Vikary is a reference by George R. R. Martin to Jaan Vikary, a character in his first novel, Dying of the Light.

References