House Ryger, whose arms are a green willow on white (I: 241. II: 412. III: 24)
House Mooton (I: 241)
House Wode, knights sworn to Harrenhal who hold two earth-and-timber keeps just north of the stream that separates the riverland from the lands owing fealty to King's Landing (I: 276. IV: 400)
House Vance of Wayfarer's Rest (I: 387. III: 961)
House Piper of Pinkmaiden Castle, with a naked dancing maiden for their sigil (I: 257, 388. II: 412. III: 956, 960, 961. IV: 488)
The Pipers tend to be small (I: 388. IV: 488)
House Paege, ruled by a knight (II: 412. IV: 731)
House Grell (II: 412)
House Wayn (II: 412)
House Ryger (II: 412)
The Tullys can muster at least 11,000 men (and this is with the loss of men in war and the need to give some over to the harvest) (II: 416)
The Lothstons ruled Harrenhal before the Whents, and within living memory. The last of them was killed several generation's ago. They had a black reputation (II: 497. IV: 60)
House Erenford, sworn to House Frey. Their sigil is a heron (II: 739. IV: 569)
Ser Myles Mooton had been a squire to Prince Rhaegar, and remained his close companion after winning his knighthood from Rhaegar's own hand (III: 90)
The Mootons rule Maidenpool (III: 235)
Maidenpool takes its name from the pool where Florian the Fool was said to have first glimped Jonquil bathing with her sisters (III: 235)
House Lychester has a small square keep (III: 246, 247)
All of Lord Lychester's sons died in Robert's Rebellion, some on one side and some on the other (III: 247)
Acorn Hall is a great oaken keep with stone curtain walls, but even so is accounted a rather small castle. It's master is Lord Smallwood, who is vassal to Lord Vance (III: 251, 253)
House Charlton, sworn to house Frey. Their sigil is three springs of misteltoe (III: 385. IV: 569)
House Roote (III: 385)
The wealthy House Deddings (III: 385)
There is an abandoned village half a day’s ride north of High Heart, with a grey stone stable. It belonged to Lord Goodbrook, but when he stayed loyal to the king even after the Tullys declared for Robert, Lord Hoster came down on him with fire and sword (III: 493, 497)
House Roote controls Lord Harroway's Town and the "two-headed water horse of Old King Andahar", which is a great flat-bottomed oared ferry that goes back and forth across the Trident (III: 538, 539, 545)
House Vypren is a noble family (III: 564)
House Haigh, its emblem a pitchfork. They are sworn to House Frey (III: 564. IV: 569)
Myles Smallwood was renowned for courage in his day, but he was a failure as Hand to his king (III: 604)
House Vance of Atranta (III: 961. IV: 567)
At least one knight of House Smallwood fought at the Redgrass Field (TSS: 110)
House Butterwell, whose lord was Hand to Daeron II during the early part of the first Blackfyre Rebellion, raised a castle called Whitewalls (TSS: 110. TMK: 655)
Manfred Lothston betrayed Daemon Blackfyre, which may have been a pivotal factor in his defeat and death (TSS: 135)
Lord Lucas the Pander and his son, Manfryd of the Black Hood, were infamous Lothstons (IV: 60)
A story is told that Mad Danelle Lothston sent out giant black bats of Harrenhal out to collect bad children for her cooking pots (IV: 132)
Maidenpool has at least two gates, one of which on the east side of the town (IV: 205)
The Mootons have in the past attempted to send tax collectors into Crackclaw Point, despite the people there being sworn directly to the Iron Throne. If they are sent in force, a handful might return alive (IV: 283)
A crooked track following the Bay of Crabs goes northwest from Maidenpool. The lands there are low wetlands with sandy dunes and salt marshes (IV: 371)
Lord Mooton's rule extends at least a day's ride to the northwest, in the sparsely populated wetlands. The wetlands are a poor region, easily ignored in the midst of a war (IV: 372)
The boundary between the lands sworn to King's Landing and those sworn to Riverrun, marked by a stream, is a mere day's ride north of Sow's Horn, which in turn is perhaps a week's ride north of King's Landing (IV: 400)
The Knight of Saltpans is of House Cox (IV: 454, 466, 738)
The castle at Saltpans is a square keep within a curtain wall, built to overlook the harbor (IV: 549)
Lord Norbert Vance of Atranta and Ser Brynden Tully of Riverrun together served as squires to Lord Darry (IV: 567)
A septon preaching against Bloodraven and King Aerys, galling for an uprising in the name of the Blackfyres, was beheaded for treason and his head was displayed on a spike on the walls of Stoney Sept (TMK: 650)
Lord Shawney attended Lord Butterwell's wedding tourney at Whitewalls (TMK: 659)
It was said that Lord Butterwell had the finest vintages of wine north of the Arbor. He was said to be both very rich and very pious, with the wealth coming from cattle. Both his sons, who fought on either side of the Blackfyre Rebellion, died in the fighting, and his youngest child died during the Great Spring Sickness. This led him to take a bride from House Frey, to attempt to continue the family name (TMK: 662)
Ser Morgan Dunstable of Tumbler's Falls, in the reign of Aerys I (TMK: 663)
After guesting at Lord Butterwells's castle for a night and allegedly impregnating his host's three maiden daughters, King Aegon IV the Unworthy gave him the gift of a dragon's egg. Butterwell's grandson, the new Lord Butterwell, would make it the prize at his wedding tourney at Whitewalls (TMK: 663)
Lord Shawney fought on the right with Bittersteel at the Battle of the Redgrass Field, and was nearly killed there (TMK: 667)
Whitewalls was a new castle early in the reign of Aerys I, only forty years old and raised by the grandsire of the Lord Butterwell of that time. The smallfolk called it the Milkhouse, because all of its walls and towers were wrought in finely dress white stone brought from the Vale at great expense. Its floors and pillars were white marble veined with gold, and the rafters were carved from the trunks of weirwoods (TMK: 669)
In the reign of Aerys I, the Freys married a daughter of the family to Lord Butterwell, who had been left without heirs after the Blackfyre Rebellion and the Great Spring Sickness. It's claimed that this marriage happened because Lord Frey's daughter had been caught abed with a scullion by her young brother, the heir Walder Frey, who screamed when he saw them in congress (TMK: 662, 679)
Lord Butterwell's sons fought on both sides during the first Blackfyre Rebellion (TMK: 687)
Lord Smallwood's nephew broke his wrist during Lord Butterwell's wedding tourney in the reign of Aerys I (TMK: 694)
The red-haired Mad Danelle Lothston, wearing close-fitted black armor, came in strength to Whitewalls with the host raised by Lord Bloodraven (TMK: 731)
Lord Butterwell submitted to Lord Bloodraven's judgment, and lost nine-tenths of his wealth and his pride, Whitewalls. Lord Bloodraven intended to pull the castle down and sow the ground in salt so that it would soon be forgotten (TMK: 733)