House Ambrose
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Never Resting
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Coat of arms | Or, strewn with ants gules |
Head | Lord Arthur Ambrose |
Region | The Reach |
Overlord | House Tyrell |
House Ambrose is a noble house from the Reach.
They blazon their arms as a yellow field strewn with red ants.[1][2] According to semi-canon sources their motto is «Never Resting».[3]
Contents
The Ambrose House at the end of the third century
The known Ambroses during the timespan of the events described on A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Lord Arthur Ambrose, Lord of the house.
- Lady Alysanne Hightower, His wife.
- Alyn Ambrose, his young son. A squire.
- Lady Alysanne Hightower, His wife.
With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch of the house there is also:
- Ser Edmund Ambrose, a knight from Randyll Tarly's household.
References in the books
Dunk and Egg
- Ser Aubrey Ambrose was named by Eustace Osgrey as one of the outstanding supporters of the Black Dragon's cause.
A Song of Ice and Fire
- As Reachmen, the Ambroses march with the Tyrell-Lannister army at the Battle of the Blackwater. The squire Alyn Ambrose slew a Myrish crossbowman and a Mullendore man-at-arms during the fighting.
- Elinor Tyrell was betrothed to Alyn Ambrose after the battle.
- Ser Edmund Ambrose was one of Brienne's camp followers that started the wager on her maidenhood.
- Ambrose men march with Randyll Tarly to pacify the Crownlands after the victory at the Blackwater.
- Brienne of Tarth spots horse trappings bearing the ants of Ambrose among the gear collected from the dead after the Battle of Duskendale.[4]
References and Notes
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Reach
- ↑ The Citadel. House Mottoes
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
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