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- Jaime Lannister: "Highgarden will never belong to a cutthroat!"
- Bronn: "No? Who were your ancestors? The ones who made your family rich? Fancy lads in silk? They were fucking cutthroats! That's how all the Great Houses started, isn't it? With a hard bastard who was good at killing people. Kill a few hundred people, they make you a lord. Kill a few thousand, they make you king. And then all your cocksucking grandsons can ruin the family with their cocksucking ways."
- — Bronn and Jaime Lannister[src]
Bronn's house is a newly formed Great House of Westeros. It rules over the Reach, a vast, fertile, and heavily-populated region of southwestern Westeros, from their castle-seat of Highgarden as Lords Paramount of the Reach after taking control of the region from House Tyrell, following their extinction as a result of the destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor and the Sack of Highgarden.
The house was founded by Ser Bronn of the Blackwater and raised to power as fulfillment of a debt owed by Tyrion of House Lannister, the Hand of the King to the first elected king, Bran I the Broken. The sigil of the house is a flaming arrow, symbolizing Bronn's role during the Battle of the Blackwater. The official name and words of the house are unknown.
History[]
Background[]
Lord Bronn, the founder of the house.
Bronn was a sellsword who first encountered Tyrion, when the latter was arrested by Catelyn at the Inn at the Crossroads just prior to the War of the Five Kings.[1] Bronn was among the men who traveled with Catelyn as she brought him to her sister, Lysa Arryn for a trial,[2] and Bronn fought and won in a trial by combat for Tyrion.[3] Bronn continued to travel with and work for House Lannister, guarding Tyrion in King's Landing and fighting for him at the battle on the Green Fork and the Battle of the Blackwater.[4][5] As a result for his heroism at the Battle of the Blackwater, Bronn was knighted as Ser Bronn of the Blackwater.[6]
Bronn was pledged to wed to Lady Lollys Stokeworth by Cersei, in order to deny Tyrion of any potential champions in his trial for the Purple Wedding,[7] but the arrangement was later broken by Jaime in order to enlist Bronn's aid. Bronn accompanied Jaime to Dorne in an attempt to rescue Myrcella,[8] served Jaime at the second siege of Riverrun, and fought at the Battle of the Goldroad.[9] Bronn sought a castle and a noble lady as a wife, which Jaime promised him after stripping him of his chance of acquiring the rule of Castle Stokeworth.[10]
After Jaime abandoned his sister, Cersei tasked Bronn with murdering her two brothers for committing treason,[11] promising to give Bronn Riverrun, but Bronn instead negotiated with the Lannister brothers at Winterfell after the Great War ended since he thought that Daenerys had a good chance of winning, threatening to kill them if they didn't follow up on their debts owed to him. Tyrion promised to make Bronn Lord of Highgarden and Lord of the Reach if he spared them and they won the Last War, to which Bronn agreed.[12]
Game of Thrones: Season 8[]
Bronn's noble house is formally founded when Bronn is raised as the Lord of Highgarden and Lord Paramount of the Reach, thus fulfilling the promises made to him by the Lannisters.[13]
Relationships[]
Members[]
- Lord Bronn, knight of the Blackwater, Lord of Highgarden, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and Master of Coin as part of the Small Council of Tyrion Lannister under King Bran I the Broken.
- His unnamed younger brother, whose status (both vital and noble) is uncertain.
Behind the scenes[]
The name of Bronn's newly founded house was never revealed in the TV series or in accompanying material. Since he has not founded his own house in the novels the name of his house is thus unknown. In the aftermath of "The Iron Throne" many viewers assumed that his new house was named House Blackwater after Bronn's previous style (Ser Bronn of the Blackwater) and the name even appeared in articles of publications such as Screen Rant[14] and Film Daily,[15] though it is merely fan speculation.
In the books[]
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Bronn has not founded his own house. In fact, Bronn's story in the TV series has taken a major deviation from his story in the books. Bronn is married to Lollys Stokeworth in the books, and thus is a member of House Stokeworth. Ironically, due to Cersei's attempts to dispose of him, he has risen to become Lord Stokeworth.
House Stokeworth is one of the noble houses of the Crownlands sworn directly to the King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, so Bronn, while elevated to nobility, is far less powerful, certainly not Lord Paramount of the Reach. House Tyrell still rules the Reach, but there are still two forthcoming novels, so it is unknown what their ultimate fate is. However, several noble houses of the Reach, such as the Florents, Rowans, Cranes, Redwynes, Fossoways, or Tarlys boast a claim to Highgarden through their ancient ties to House Gardener.
In the books, Bronn uses a personal sigil to represent himself, which could become his house sigil if he were to found his own house: a green, flaming chain on a smoking grey field, in commemoration of his role in the Battle of the Blackwater.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things"
- ↑ "The Wolf and the Lion"
- ↑ "A Golden Crown"
- ↑ "Baelor"
- ↑ "Blackwater"
- ↑ "Valar Dohaeris"
- ↑ "Mockingbird"
- ↑ "The House of Black and White"
- ↑ "The Spoils of War"
- ↑ "The Broken Man"
- ↑ "Winterfell"
- ↑ "The Last of the Starks"
- ↑ "The Iron Throne"
- ↑ Screen Rant
- ↑ Film Daily
Notes[]
- ↑ In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 8 in 305 AC.
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King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men (elected, currently |
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| Riverlands | |
| Stormlands | |
| Vale of Arryn | |
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| Extinct |
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| Noble houses |
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| Landed knights | |
| Other houses | |
| Exiled houses | |
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