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| Alias | "of the hundred fathers"[1] |
| Allegiance | House Stokeworth |
| Culture | Crownlands |
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300 AC Stokeworth |
| Father | Unknown |
| Mother | Lollys Stokeworth |
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Tyrion Tanner[1][N 1] is the bastard son of Lollys Stokeworth and an unknown father. He is named after Tyrion Lannister.[2]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]During the riots in King's Landing, Lollys Stokeworth is knocked from her saddle as the royal party returns to the Red Keep. The gold cloaks later find her wandering naked on Sowbelly Row after having been raped by "half a hundred" men behind a tanner's shop.[5] Lollys, traumatized by the event, becomes afraid to leave her chambers.[6]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]Lady Tanda Stokeworth hires Symon Silver Tongue to sing for her pregnant daughter; his music calms Lollys when her baby begins to kick.[7]
Tyrion Lannister is arrested for the murder of King Joffrey I Baratheon at his wedding to Margaery Tyrell. In his tower cell, Tyrion summons his sellsword, Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, in case he needs him as a champion in a potential trial by combat. Bronn comes, but after some time and only reluctantly, as he is to marry Lollys in two days. Tyrion realizes that Queen Regent Cersei Lannister has arranged this marriage to take away his ally, and tries to argue Bronn out of the marriage. He says that Lollys is lackwitted and is pregnant with another man's bastard child, and is not even the heir to Castle Stokeworth. Bronn replies he doesn't want wits, that soon after Lollys gives birth she'll be pregnant with his child, and that her sister Falyse has no children and might die before her mother. As Tyrion cannot match Cersei's offer of a highborn wife and a castle, versus fighting Ser Gregor Clegane to the death, he says farewell to Bronn.[8]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]During the funeral of Lord Tywin Lannister, who was murdered by Tyrion, Lollys is in labor, so she and her mother remain at Stokeworth. Falyse tells Queen Cersei that Lady Tanda asked if the baby is a boy, if they could name him after Tywin, but Cersei forbids it, indignant at the insult to her father.[9]
When Lollys delivers a healthy son, Bronn names him after Tyrion.[2] Ser Jaime Lannister finds this amusing, but Cersei is displeased by the sellsword's insolence.[2]
Cersei tells Lady Falyse and her husband, Ser Balman Byrch, that the name of Lollys's son may mean that Bronn is hiding knowledge of Tyrion's whereabouts[10] (though she later thinks that she does not truly believe this),[11] and conspires with them to kill Bronn.[10] However, the plan backfires, and Bronn kills Balman and exiles Falyse from Stokeworth. When Falyse flees to Cersei in terror for her life, Cersei gives her to Qyburn for his experiments in the black cells, to make her disappear and cover up the conspiracy.[11]
After the death of Lady Tanda from a chill brought on by a broken hip, Lollys becomes the Lady of Stokeworth, with her husband Bronn calling himself Lord Stokeworth.[12] Falyse also dies soon afterwards from Qyburn's experiments.[1]
Quotes
[edit]Falyse: My mother admired your late father above all other men. Should my sister have a little boy, it is her wish that we might name him Tywin, if... if it please you.
Cersei: Your lackwit sister gets herself raped by half of King's Landing, and Tanda thinks to honor the bastard with my lord father's name? I think not.
Cersei: See that you do.[9]
Balman: I told Lady Tanda as much. We shall find a more, ah... a more fitting name for Lollys's bastard, you have my word.
Pycelle : Lady Tanda sends word that her daughter Lollys has been delivered of a strong, healthy son.
Cersei: And you will never guess what they have named the little bastard, brother.
Cersei: Yes, but I forbade it. I told Falyse that I would not have our father's noble name bestowed upon the ill-gotten spawn of some pig boy and a feeble-witted sow.[2]
Jaime: They wanted to name him Tywin, I recall.
Pycelle : Lady Stokeworth insists the child's name was not her doing. Lollys's husband made the choice, she writes. This man Bronn, he... it would seem that he...
Jaime: Tyrion. He named the child Tyrion.[2]—Pycelle and Jaime Lannister
Jaime: There you are, sweet sister. You have been looking everywhere for Tyrion, and all the time he's been hiding in Lollys's womb.
Cersei: Droll. You and Bronn are both so droll. No doubt the bastard is sucking on one of Lollys Lackwit's dugs even as we speak, whilst this sellsword looks on, smirking at his little insolence.[2]
Balman: Your Grace, an awkward matter, but ... lest bad feeling fester between us, you should know that neither my good wife nor her mother had any hand in the naming of this bastard child. Lollys is a simple creature, and her husband is given to black humors. I told him to choose a more fitting name for the boy. He laughed.
Cersei: Tyrion was a king's name before the dragons came. The Imp has despoiled it, but perhaps this child can restore the name to honor.[10]
Family
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ When Lollys Stokeworth's bastard son was born in A Feast for Crows,[2] readers expected him to be surnamed "Waters", as is standard in the Crownlands.[3] However, the appendix of A Dance with Dragons revealed that he was actually surnamed "Tanner".[1] Note that George R.R. Martin has stated that bastard surnames are only custom, and that "the highborn parent can bestow the usual name, a new one of his/her own devising, or none at all."[4] It is likely that the black-humored Bronn named the child as an allusion to Lolly's rape behind a tanner's shop.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 16, Jaime II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: SF, Targaryens, Valyria, Sansa, Martells, and More (June 26, 2001).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 41, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 44, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 12, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 66, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei V.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 32, Cersei VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 36, Cersei VIII.