House Webber

House Webber of Coldmoat
Coat of arms	A white and spotted-red spider upon a silver web over black (Sable, a cobweb silver thereon a spider argent spotted gules)
Seat	Coldmoat
Head	Unknown
Region	Reach
Title	Lord of Coldmoat
Overlord	House Rowan

House Webber of Coldmoat is a noble house from Coldmoat in the Reach. It is sworn to House Rowan. Their lands used to border those of House Osgrey.

Their blazon is a black field with a white, spotted-red spider on a silver web.

House Webber's castle, Coldmoat, can support twenty times as many smallfolk as Standfast. House Webber lands include the Horseshoe Hills, Leafy Lake, and the Chequy Water. The Webber lands contain fields of barley, wheat, and corn, as well as six orchards of apples, apricots, and pears. The Webbers are proud of their horse breeding as well.

History

Coldmoat, by Mike S. Miller, for the The Sworn Sword graphic novel

Coldmoat was once the greatest of the four castles of House Osgrey, but was taken from them during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen because Lord Ormond Osgrey opposed King Maegor's laws. At some point afterwards, House Webber became the Lords of Coldmoat.

Lord Reynard Webber once ruled Coldmoat during the youth of Ser Eustace Osgrey.

Lord Wyman Webber

Lord Wyman Webber's sons died in infancy, and his only heir was his daughter, Rohanne. Lord Wyman was good friends with his neighbor, Ser Eustace Osgrey, although Eustace was somewhat envious of the Webber lands and castle that had once belonged to House Osgrey. Ser Eustace's youngest son, Addam, served at Coldmoat as Wyman's page and squire, and began a childhood romance with Rohanne. But when Eustace proposed that Addam marry Rohanne, Wyman rejected him; though he was courteous, as Eustace left, he heard Wyman laughing with his castellan, Ser Lucas Inchfield. Wyman then had the ten-year-old Rohanne married to another of his squires, a twelve-year-old boy.

Animosity built between House Webber and House Osgrey because of this event, and because in the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Lord Wyman was a loyalist supporting "the red dragon", King Daeron II Targaryen, while Ser Eustace supported "the black dragon", the pretender Daemon I Blackfyre. In 196 AC, Lord Wyman fought in the Battle of the Redgrass Field on the side of House Targaryen. His squire, Rohanne's husband, was slain in the battle, and Rohanne became a widow for the first time at the age of ten. Eustace Osgrey also fought in the battle, on the side of House Blackfyre, and his squire Addam was killed as well. Rohanne wept only for Addam, not for the husband she barely knew; she blamed Ser Eustace for his death, and held a grudge against the knight thereafter.

After the Blackfyres were defeated, King Daeron punished the traitorous House Osgrey and rewarded House Webber. Lord Wyman and his descendants were granted ownership of the Chequy Water, from where the stream rises in the Horseshoe Hills to the shores of Leafy Lake. They were further granted the rights to hunt in Osgrey's forest, Wat's Wood, and to cut twenty trees from the wood each year. Over time, House Webber cleared trees on both banks of the stream to make way for pastures.

Lord Wyman had the thirteen-year-old Rohanne married again to a fifty-five-year-old man, who soon died of a chill. Six months after his death, she gave birth to their son, who was weak and died within three days. Rohanne's third husband, Ser Simon Staunton, choked to death on a chicken bone, while her fourth husband, Ser Rolland Uffering, died of the Great Spring Sickness. Rohanne bore a daughter by either her third or fourth husband, but the girl did not live a year. Lord Wyman, still wanting descendants, attempted to marry Rohanne to his castellan, Ser Lucas Inchfield, but she refused him. Wyman's deathbed will then required that Rohanne marry within two years of his death; if she remained unwed after that time, Coldmoat would be granted to her cousin, Ser Wendell Webber. As Ser Wendell was married to the sister of Lord Rowan, the Webber overlord upheld the will.

Lady Rohanne Webber

Rohanne Webber, by Eluas ©

A number of rumors were spoken of Lady Rohanne, calling her a witch and a poisoner who had murdered her brothers, husbands, and children to attain power. They called her "the Red Widow", a title she accepted as the epithet strengthened her reputation, but certain calumnies made her furious. In 209 AC, not long after Rohanne became the Lady of Coldmoat, a peasant of House Osgrey's villages, Dake, was accused of stealing sheep from House Webber's lands. After twice complaining to Ser Eustace Osgrey, Lady Rohanne had her knights seize Dake and drown him in a sack in Coldmoat's moat. This infuriated Eustace Osgrey, and he also began to slander her. Other issues Lady Rohanne had to deal with in her rule were Lord Stackhouse, who desired the Webbers' Horseshoe Hills, Ser Clifford Conklyn's claim to Leafy Lake, and the cattle-stealing House Durwell. Rohanne's castellan, Ser Lucas, was also a danger, threatening to fight and driving away nearly all the suitors who had dared the rumors to court her. Furthermore, various kin of Rohanne's husbands had come to Coldmoat with her marriages, and remained living at the castle even after the men died, as part of the Webber household, including Septon Sefton and Lady Helicent Uffering. Nevertheless, Rohanne maintained the Webber grain fields and fruit orchards, raising cattle and five hundred head of black-nosed sheep, and bred "the finest horses in the Reach".

In 211 AC, the second year of a severe summer drought, Lady Rohanne Webbber had the Chequy Water dammed in order to irrigate Webber lands and fill Coldmoat's namesake moat. However, this blocked the stream from reaching Osgrey lands. This caused a confrontation with Ser Eustace, when his sworn sword, Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield, saw the dam being built and assaulted Wolmer, one of Rohanne's men. Eustace sent Ser Duncan the Tall, another of his sworn swords, to Coldmoat to pay a blood price for Wolmer, and to request that Rohanne take the dam down. However, Rohanne rejected both offers, and had her maester, Cerrick, show Duncan a document sealed by the crown, declaring House Webber's possession of the Chequy Water and revealing that Ser Eustace had been a traitorous supporter of the Blackfyres, both of which Duncan was not aware. The conflict between House Webber and House Osgrey further escalated when Wat's Wood burned, and Eustace accused Rohanne or her people of setting the fire. Rohanne denied burning the forest, and demanded an apology; she also did not accept Duncan cutting his own cheek as payment for Bennis's attack on her man. Both Rohanne and Eustace refused to have Lord Rowan judge the conflict, and eventually they agreed to a trial by combat between Eustace's champion, Ser Duncan, and Rohanne's champion, Ser Lucas Inchfield, who demanded that Rohanne marry him once he won. Duncan prevailed in the combat in the Chequy Water, killing Ser Lucas, but in the process Duncan drowned in the stream; however, Maester Cerrick revived him with the ironborn's kiss of life. Nevertheless, Duncan's valor reconciled Eustace and Rohanne. Eustace allowed Rohanne to enter his lands, and she visited Addam Osgrey's grave at Standfast; when she began to weep, Eustace comforted her. They spent the night talking of their families, and married the next day, which allowed Rohanne to keep Coldmoat.

Ser Eustace Osgrey became the Lord of Coldmoat, but it is not known if he became the ruling lord or only a consort to Lady Rohanne: thus, the lands that were under the domain of House Webber may or may not have been restored to House Osgrey. When Ser Duncan the Tall recovered and left Coldmoat, Lord Eustace gave him a parting gift of a Webber sigil brooch of an ivory spider, with silver legs and crushed garnet spots. Lady Rohanne gave Duncan's squire, Egg, a gift of a palfrey eventually named Rain. She also attempted to give Duncan a place as captain of the Webber guards, and to gift him a courser mare, Flame, but he rejected both offers.

It is uncertain when Eustace Osgrey died, although it was before 219 AC. Lady Rohanne eventually married Gerold Lannister, though whether before or after he became Lord of Casterly Rock in 213 AC is unknown. She had four sons with him, twins Tywald and Tion, Tytos (born 220 AC), and Jason Lannister (born 229 AC). Lady Rohanne disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 230 AC, less than a year after giving birth to Jason.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Webber, a sellsword with the Windblown who is decorated with spider tattoos, is said to nurse a claim to lost lands in Westeros.

Historical Members

• Lord Reynard Webber, Lord of Coldmoat.
• Lord Wyman Webber, Lord of Coldmoat.
• Lady Rohanne Webber, Lady of Coldmoat and daughter of Wyman, later m. Gerold Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock
  • Rohanne's first husband, Wyman's squire
  • Rohanne's second husband
    • a son, died in infancy
  • Ser Simon Staunton, Rohanne's third husband
  • Ser Rolland Uffering, Rohanne's fourth husband
    • a daughter, by Simon or Rolland, died in infancy
  • Ser Eustace Osgrey, Rohanne's fifth husband and Lord of Coldmoat
• Ser Wendell Webber, cousin of Wyman.
  • Lord Rowan's sister, Wendell's wife.
    • Sons and daughters.

First husband

Wyman

Unknown wife

Wendell

Lord Rowan's sister

Second husband

Son

Rohanne

Gerold Lannister

Sons

Sons

Daughters

Simon Staunton

Daughter

Tywald Lannister

Tion Lannister

Ellyn Reyne

Tytos Lannister

Jeyne Marbrand

Jason Lannister

Various women

Rolland Uffering

Eustace Osgrey

Notes:

Historical household

(under Lady Rohanne Webber)

• Maester Cerrick
• Septon Sefton
• Ser Lucas Inchfield, castellan
• Lady Helicent Uffering
• Ser Cleyton Caswell, suitor to Lady Rohanne
• Ser Simon Leygood, suitor to Lady Rohanne
• a master-at-arms, various guards, knights, squires, lady companions, septas, and servants

Quotes

This is Webber land. You got no right to be here. Lop off any ears and m'lady will drown you in a sack.

—Wolmer, to Bennis

Woman: Is it war? Is the black dragon come again?
Duncan: There are no dragons in this, black or red. This is between the chequy lion and the spiders. The Red Widow has taken your water.

—an Osgrey smallfolk woman and Duncan

This is about the lion and the spider now, not some peasant's cheek.

—Rohanne Webber, to Duncan