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8.2.3. Bannerhouses
  • House Vyrwel (I: 687)
  • House Oakheart of Old Oak (I: 687. II: 715)
  • House Hightower (I: 687)
  • House Crane (I: 687)
  • House Rowan of Goldengrove (I: 687. II: 715)
  • House Mullendore, the lords of Uplands. They are vassals of the Hightowers. (I: 687. III: 752. IV: 716)
  • With all the power of Highgarden and Storm's End combined, about 90,000 soldiers and knights can be gotten (II: 258)
  • The Tyrells can muster 50,000 swords at the least (and perhaps more like 60,000+), and there is a suggestion that they can gather many more (II: 388)
  • House Norcross serves in the household of the Florents (II: 731. III: 221)
  • The Rowans, the Oakhearts, and many other houses claim descent from Garth Greenhand through the female line, among others (III: 67)
  • House Ambrose, ruled by a lord (III: 183, 963, 964. IV: 131)
  • House Norcross serves in the household of the Florents (III: 221)
  • House Cuy, the Lords of Sunflower Hall. They are vassals of the Hightowers (III: 351. IV: 716)
  • House Beesbury, the Lords of Honeyholt. They are vassals of the Hightowers (III: 351. IV: 716)
  • House Costayne, the Lords of the Three Towers. Their seat stands on the cliffs of the Whispering Sound, and they are vassals of the Hightowers (III: 357. IV: 672, 716)
  • House Bulwer, the lords of Blackcrown. They are vassals of the Hightowers (III: 65, 963. IV: 716)
  • House Merryweather, the lords of Longtable (III: 65, 963, 964)
  • House Graceford (III: 963)
  • Lord Rowan of Goldengrove is liege lord to Houses Osgrey and Webber (TSS: 92)
  • Lord Wyman Webber was the Red Widow's father. His cousin, Wendell, married Lord Rowan's sister, and they had a number of sons and daughters by 211 (TSS: 92, 105, 123)
  • House Leygood (TSS: 118. IV: 131)
  • Lord Rowan upheld Lord Wyman Webber's will, which required his daughter and heir Lady Rohanne to be wed by the second anniversary of his death or forfeit Coldmoat and its lands to his cousin, Wendell Webber (TSS: 123)
  • During Daemon Blackfyre's rebellion, House Hightower kept a foot in both camps, lending part of its strength to each side (TSS: 135)
  • Fireball was one of the champions who followed Daemon Blackfyre, but he was slain on the eve of battle. A famous knight of the Reach, Ser Quentyn Ball had been master-at-arms in the Red Keep and had been all but promised a place in the Kingsguard by Aegon IV, a promise Daeron the Good chose not to honor. This led Fireball to becoming one of the men who urged Blackfyre to his rebellion (TSS: 135. TMK: 666, 668-669. SSM: 1)
  • Ser Aubrey Ambrose was one of the great knights who followed Daemon Blackfyre (TSS: 137)
  • House Stackhouse, whose lord coveted the Horseshoe Hills in 211, which were controlled by House Webber (TSS: 149)
  • House Conklyn is mentioned, by way of a Ser Clifford Conklyn who had an old claim to Leafy Lake, held at that time by House Webber, in 211 (TSS: 149)
  • House Durwell, who were alleged to make their living by stealing cattle (TSS: 149)
  • At Old Oak, tapestries commemorate House Oakheart's long history fighting the Dornish: Lord Edgerran the Open-Handed with the heads of a hundred Dornishmen piled about him, the Three Leaves pierced by Dornish spears in the Prince's Pass as Alester sounded his horn with his dying breath, Ser Olyvar the Green Oak of the Kingsguard slain beside the Young Dragon, and more (IV: 185)
  • House Hunt (IV: 204)
  • Ser Jeffory Norcross, known as Neveryield, was a knight of the Kingsguard in the past. Famous in his day, but less well-known in later years (IV: 236)
  • The Daynes and Oakhearts have fought one another for several thousand years (IV: 302)
  • The Horn of Herrock, black and twisted and banded with gold, is an heirloom of Kayce (IV: 401)
  • House Serry. Its arms are a white rose on a red escutcheon within a white field surrounded by an embattled borded (IV: 427-428)
  • Nine-tenths of fighting men on ships from the Shield Islands wear no armor, for fear of drowning, and those who do rarely wear more than light shirts of sewn scales (IV: 427)
  • There are longships ready for fighting at sea on the Shield Islands. At least some of these have lower decks (IV: 428-429)
  • Though the Shield Islands men consider themselves sailors, they travel the seas with trepidation (IV: 429)
  • Old men on the Shield Islands keep watch from watchtowers. If they see ironmen reavers approaching, they light fires and soon enough all the islands are aware of the attack. Younger men put to see in longships to fend the reavers off, led by their lords. Commonly, they'll force the enemy into the Mander, trapping them there until they can be brought down (IV: 431)
  • The lords of the Shield Islands command Greenshield, Greyshield, Oakenshield, and Southshield (IV: 431)
  • The Shield Islands can field at least forty-five ships, and probably a good number more than that (IV: 434)
  • House Hewett of Oakenshield. Their seat is at Lord Hewett's Town. The castle sits on a hill above the harbor, and the town is twice the size of Lordsport on Pyke. The Hewett arms are an oak escutcheon studded with iron on a field of undulating blue and white (IV: 434, 436)
  • The Hewett castle is small but stout, with thick walls and studded oaken gates. Its towers have green roofs (IV: 436)
  • House Grimm of Greyshield, with their seat at Grimston (IV: 437)
  • The lords of the Four Shields are closely bound with many inter-marriages (IV: 439)
  • Even with the best part of the Reach's strength away, Highgarden can raise 10,000 men in a fortnight, and twice that in a moon's turn (IV: 476)
  • House Chester of Greenshield (IV: 474, 734)
  • Lord Alyn Cockshaw attended Lord Butterwell's tourney at Whitewalls, in the company of Lord Peake and a hedge knight named John the Fiddler, who was in fact Daemon Blackfyre, namesake of his father (TMK: 655, 657, 716)
  • House Peake of Starpike. They controlled three castles before the first Blackfyre Rebellion, but lost two of them for having supported Daemon Blackfyre (TMK: 657)
  • Lord Costayne attended Lord Butterwell's tourney at Whitewalls. His father fought for Daemon Blackfyre during his rebellion and was in the left battle of the Pretender's host at the Redgrass Field. Costayne was also wed to one of Lord Butterwell's daughters from his first marriage (TMK: 659, 667, 673)
  • Lord Vyrwel attended Lord Butterwell's tourney at Whitewalls in the reign of King Aerys I (TMK: 671)
  • The Old Ox, Ser Buford Bulwer, attended Lord Butterwell's tourney at Whitewalls in the reign of King Aerys I. Called a huge man, by Aerys's day he was very fat and past sixty, with a blind right eye, but it's claimed that he slew forty men at the Redgrass Field. This number is dubious, however (TMK: 671, 675)
  • Lord Risley attended Lord Butterwell's tourney at Whitewalls in the reign of King Aerys I. He was married to one of Lord Butterwell's daughters by his first wife (TMK: 673)
  • Ser Eden Risley's leg was crushed beneath his horse during Lord Butterwell's wedding tourney in the reign of Aerys I (TMK: 694)
  • Alyn Cockshaw drowned in a well after being thrown into it by Ser Duncan the Tall, following his attempt to do the same to Ser Duncan (TMK: 717)
  • Lord Peake was executed by beheading for his treason. His head was displayed with Tom Heddle's (TMK: 733)
  • The Tyrells have fewer warships of their own than the Lannisters, but with the ships of the Shield Islands and the Redwynes of the Arbor to call on, they have a significant force at sea (SSM: 1, 2)
  • The initial replacement for Lord Tywin as Hand as the elderly, amiable Lord Merryweather, famed for throwing lavish feasts and flattering the king shamelessly. When the rebellion began, he declared the rebels outlaws and sent commands to various minor lords to deliver them or their heads but he himself never stirred from King's Landing. His methods proved so ineffectual that he was exiled by the king and stripped of all his lands and wealth. Robert later restored the title of lord and the castle and the lands, but not most of the wealth. (SSM: 1, 2)
  • The Reach is the most populous region in the Seven Kingdoms, and consequently can field the largest army. (SSM: 1)