Sybell Spicer
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| Alias | Sybell Westerling[1] | |||
| Title | Lady of the Crag | |||
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| Culture | Westermen | |||
| Born | Westerlands[2] | |||
| Spouse | Lord Gawen Westerling | |||
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Sybell Spicer, also known as Sybell Westerling, is the wife of Lord Gawen Westerling and is the Lady of the Crag. She is the granddaughter of Maggy the Frog.[3]
Contents
Appearance
Sybell is a handsome woman.[4]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
Ser Rolph Spicer serves as castellan of the Crag, where his sister Sybell is lady of the castle. With Sybell's husband, Lord Gawen Westerling, a captive at Seagard,[5] Rolph yields the castle to Robb Stark, King in the North, during the storming of the Crag. Sybell discretely negotiates with House Spicer's liege lord, Tywin, in return for promises of worthy marriages for her daughters, Jeyne and Eleyna.[6] Rolph and Sybell maneuver Jeyne into treating the wounded Robb.[7] After sleeping with the girl, Robb chooses to wed her, thereby breaking his alliance with House Frey.[4] Sybell begins providing posset to Jeyne, claiming it will make her fertile.[8]
Sybell is part of King Robb's entourage when he returns from the Westerlands. She remains at Riverrun with Jeyne, Eleyna, and her youngest son, Rollam, when Robb goes to the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully.[9]
After the Red Wedding Sybell is pardoned by the Iron Throne.[10]
A Feast for Crows
Sybell and her children are kept inside Riverrun during the siege. When Edmure surrenders Riverrun to Ser Jaime Lannister, Sybell sits with Jaime and tells him of her complicity in the death of Robb Stark. She explains how she had made sure there was no heir from her daughter's union and how she had been promised lords or heirs as prospects for her son and daughters. Jaime informs her that the bride that had been promised from Casterly Rock for her son Rollam is Joy Hill, the bastard daughter of Gerion Lannister, and that her brother Rolph Spicer is the newly made Lord of Castamere, thus giving the Spicers an actual seat. Sybell is upset that her eldest son, Raynald, was set to marry a bastard, though her complaints cease when Jaime makes his contempt for her plain and warns her to stay out of his sight for the remainder of her time at Riverrun. Sybell leaves with her children the next morning for the west.[6]
Family
Sybell's grandfather was a lowborn trader in saffron and pepper, her grandmother a woman he had brought with him from the east. The people living in Lannisport called her Maggy the Frog.[3] On Sybell's mother and father, nothing is known.
| Unknown spice trader | Maggy the Frog | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founder of House Spicer | Unknown wife | Sibling(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rolph | Sybell | Gawen Westerling | Samwell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raynald Westerling | Jeyne Westerling | Robb Stark | Eleyna Westerling | Rollam Westerling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Behind the Scenes
Sybell's name is once misspelled as "Sybelle" in A Feast for Crows.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Sybell Spicer.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 44, Jaime VII.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Rolph Spicer.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 20, Catelyn III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 72, Jaime IX.