Harrold Hardyng
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Ser Harrold Hardyng, often called Harry the Heir and sometimes the Young Falcon,[3] is a gallant, handsome squire and a ward of Lady Anya Waynwood. He is the heir presumptive of Robert Arryn.[3]
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Appearance
Harry is very handsome. He has sandy hair, deep blue eyes and dimples when he smiles.[3] According to semi-canon sources, he has an aquilie nose, and looks every inch a young lord-in-waiting: straight as a lance, clean-limbed, and hard with muscle. It is said that Harrold has the look of Jon Arryn in his youth.[1] Petyr Baelish says that a wife of Harry would be the envy of every highborn maiden in the Vale, as well as a few from the riverlands and the Reach.[3]
According to semi-canon sources, Harrold's personal heraldry that is displayed on his shield is quartered: two quarters display the moon-and-falcon sigil of House Arryn, one displays the arms of House Hardyng, and the last displays the arms of House Waynwood.[1]
History
Youth
Harrold was born the eldest son of a landed knight of House Hardyng and the youngest daughter of Alys Arryn and Ser Elys Waynwood.[3] He was taken in as Lady Anya Waynwood's ward at Ironoaks and was raised there. Harrold is still young but it is rumored that, despite his youth, he has already fathered a bastard daughter.[3]
Harrold later confirms during a tournament at the Bloody Gate to join the Brotherhood of Winged Knights that he has a two year old bastard daughter named Alys, whom he fathered on a girl named Cissy. According to Harrold, childbirth left Cissy "fat as a cow", so Lady Waynwood arranged for her to be married off to one of her men-at-arms. Sometime afterwards, Harrold impregnated the daughter of one of the richest spice merchants in Gulltown named Saffron. She is expected to give birth to his second acknowledged bastard.[1]
Robert's Heir
Harrold Hardyng became the heir to Jon Arryn in 283 AC, but was replaced in that position when Jon Arryn became the father of a son of his own, Robert, in 292 AC.
Harrold is a cousin to Jon Arryn. Jon Arryn's father, Jasper Arryn, had two sons and a daughter. Jon was the eldest of the three. He became the Lord of the Eyrie after his father's death. Jon's younger brother, Ronnel, died as his son, Elbert, was being born. As Jon Arryn himself had no children, Elbert became his heir. In 282 AC, Elbert was killed by King Aerys II Targaryen.[3]
Jon's sister Alys had eight daughters and one son. The boy, the youngest of the nine, died at the age of three, and two of his sisters died not long after, from the pox. The third of the girls became a septa, having been scarred by the pox. Another daughter became a silent sister. One girl was married but proved barren, and another was carried off by mountain clans. The eldest of the daughters was married to Ser Denys Arryn, a distant Arryn cousin. The idea was that their children, in addition to becomming heirs of the Vale, should Elbert die, they would be named "Arryn". Elbert had died in 282 AC, but Denys rode to war and died in the Battle of the Bells during Robert's Rebellion in 283 AC. Both his wife and son died soon after. The youngest of the eight daughters of Alys Arryn had been married to a landed knight who had been sworn to House Waynwood. She gave birth to Harrold, and perished. Years later, Robert Arryn was born to Lord Jon Arryn, leaving Robert as Jon Arryn's heir, and Harrold as the next in line.[3]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
During Petyr Baelish's meeting with the Lords Declarant, Lord Yohn Royce states Lord Robert Arryn should befriend Harry at Runestone, but he is rejected.[4]
Gossip holds that, despite his youth, Hardyng has already fathered at least one baseborn child with another on the way. He is knighted by Lord Yohn after winning a small melee for squires held at Runestone.[3]
Petyr, the Lord Protector of the Vale of Arryn, arranges a betrothal between Harrold and Sansa Stark, who is masquerading as Petyr's bastard daughter, "Alayne Stone". He schemes to reveal Sansa's true identity and reclaim Winterfell in her name.[3]
The Winds of Winter
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Harry rides with the Waynwoods to the Gates of the Moon before the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights where they were greeted by Myranda Royce and Alayne Stone. When Myranda discussed the state of their stay at the Gates of the Moon to the Waynwoods, Alayne informed Harry that he is to stay at Falcon Tower but the young knight answered her with cold stares and insults her bastard status. Alayne in response loathed him and gave him the moniker name "Harry the Arse". Later in the banquet, after Alayne had danced with several eligible knights, Harry came to her and begged forgiveness to his rudeness earlier and asked if she can share with him a dance. Keeping up with Littlefinger's plan, Alayne agreed and the two danced with her hoping that Sweetrobin would not start to twitch and shake upon seeing them together. During the dance, Alayne inquired about Harry's rumored bastards to which he answered in all honesty. Harry later warms up to her that he even bursted into a laugh upon hearing some of her clever japes and some hints of flirtation later on. Harry later asked for Alayne's favor in the upcoming tourney, to which interestingly enough she refused to give, saying that she has given it to another.[1]
Family
Jasper | Unknown wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rowena Arryn | Jeyne Royce | Jon | Lysa Tully | Alys | Elys Waynwood | Ronnel | Lady Belmore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stillborn daughter | 2 stillborn children | Robert | Daughter | Denys Arryn | Daughter | 6 daughters | Jasper Waynwood | Elbert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Son | Harrold Hardyng | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Alayne I (The Winds of Winter)
- ↑ See the Harrold Hardyng calculation
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.