Difference between revisions of "Jon Umber"
(singing) |
(Jaime) |
||
Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
==Recent Events== | ==Recent Events== | ||
===''A Game of Thrones''=== | ===''A Game of Thrones''=== | ||
− | [[File:John Matson greatjon.jpg | + | [[File:John Matson greatjon.jpg|thumb|Greatjon - by John Matson ©]] |
Jon leads his men when [[Robb Stark]] calls the bannermen of [[House Stark]] to [[Winterfell]]. At first he challenges the young lord's authority, threatening to take his forces home if he is placed behind Lords [[Halys Hornwood]] or [[Medger Cerwyn]] in the order of march. After being called out by Robb, the Greatjon draws his sword, only to have the direwolf [[Grey Wind]] knock the sword from his hands and bite off two fingers. Impressed with Robb's courage, the Greatjon makes a joke of it instead of becoming angry and becomes Robb's greatest champion.{{Ref|aGoT|53}} | Jon leads his men when [[Robb Stark]] calls the bannermen of [[House Stark]] to [[Winterfell]]. At first he challenges the young lord's authority, threatening to take his forces home if he is placed behind Lords [[Halys Hornwood]] or [[Medger Cerwyn]] in the order of march. After being called out by Robb, the Greatjon draws his sword, only to have the direwolf [[Grey Wind]] knock the sword from his hands and bite off two fingers. Impressed with Robb's courage, the Greatjon makes a joke of it instead of becoming angry and becomes Robb's greatest champion.{{Ref|aGoT|53}} | ||
Line 46: | Line 46: | ||
===''A Feast for Crows''=== | ===''A Feast for Crows''=== | ||
− | + | The Greatjon is held captive at the Twins.{{Ref|aFfC|Appendix}} Following the [[siege of Riverrun]], Jaime informs Ser [[Edwyn Frey]] and [[Walder Rivers]] that the King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]] requires the transfer of all captives taken by House Frey in the Red Wedding.{{ref|AFFC|44}} | |
===''A Dance with Dragons''=== | ===''A Dance with Dragons''=== | ||
− | With the Greatjon still a captive of | + | With the Greatjon still a captive of the Freys, a portion of [[House Umber]], led by his uncle [[Hother Umber|Hother Whoresbane]], grudgingly swears fealty to [[House Bolton]], though according to Lord [[Roose Bolton]] their loyalty is highly dubious.{{ref|ADWD|46}} The other half of the Umbers, under [[Mors Umber|Mors Crowfood]], take up the cause of [[Stannis Baratheon]].{{ref|ADWD|62}} |
==Family== | ==Family== |
Revision as of 22:17, 8 February 2017
Jon Umber | |
---|---|
Greatjon Umber by amok© | |
| |
Aliases |
|
Title | Lord of the Last Hearth |
Allegiance | House Umber |
Culture | Northmen |
Born | the Last Hearth[1] |
Books |
|
| |
Played by | Clive Mantle |
TV series | Season 1 |
Jon Umber, known as Greatjon Umber[2] and the Greatjon,[3] is Lord of the Last Hearth and head of House Umber, a vassal family to the Starks of Winterfell.[4] His eldest son, also named Jon, is called the Smalljon. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones the Greatjon is played by Clive Mantle.[5]
Contents
Appearance and Character
- See also: Images of Jon Umber (Greatjon)
Jon is a large man, nearly seven feet tall. He is heavily muscled and is a formidable warrior. Ser Jaime Lannister regards him as one of the strongest living men in Westeros when thinking of who could match him in a fight.[6]
The Greatjon is proud, boisterous, and fierce, and impressed only by those who earn his respect. He wields the biggest, ugliest greatsword that Bran Stark has ever seen, which makes it bigger than Ice.[4] Jon surprisingly has a decent singing voice.[7]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Jon leads his men when Robb Stark calls the bannermen of House Stark to Winterfell. At first he challenges the young lord's authority, threatening to take his forces home if he is placed behind Lords Halys Hornwood or Medger Cerwyn in the order of march. After being called out by Robb, the Greatjon draws his sword, only to have the direwolf Grey Wind knock the sword from his hands and bite off two fingers. Impressed with Robb's courage, the Greatjon makes a joke of it instead of becoming angry and becomes Robb's greatest champion.[4]
When the northern host splits at the Twins, Greatjon goes south with Robb's force along with his son, the Smalljon, leading the van of the army and participating in the battles of the Whispering Wood and the Camps, where he sets fire to the Ser Jaime Lannister's siege towers.[8][9] After Riverrun is relieved and news of Lord Eddard Stark's death arrives, the Greatjon is the first to declare Robb the King in the North.[2]
A Clash of Kings
Lord Jon is present when Robb Stark explains his terms for peace with the Iron Throne in the Great Hall of Riverrun. After participating in the Battle of Oxcross, the Greatjon goes on to capture the gold mines at Castamere, Nunn's Deep, and the Pendric Hills.[10]
A Storm of Swords
After Robb breaks his marriage contract with the Freys, Greatjon Umber offers to make marriage contracts for his uncles, Mors and Hother, in Robb's place.[3] He leads the van on the march to the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully. In Robb's plan to retake Moat Cailin from the ironborn, the Greatjon is given command of the van and told to make his diversionary attack convincing, as Robb's own force is to circle behind Moat Cailin with the guidance of the crannogmen.
During the wedding feast at the Twins, the Greatjon drunkenly sings "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" while musicians perform "Flowers of Spring". He carries Edmure's bride, Roslin Frey, over his shoulder and takes her from the hall as part of the bedding customs.[7]
In preparation for the Freys' betrayal of House Stark, Petyr, Merrett, and Ser Whalen Frey were tasked with getting the Greatjon too drunk to put up a fight. Once the Red Wedding begins, however, the Greatjon is only subdued after eight men grapple with him. He still manages to kill one man, wound two others and bite off half the ear of Ser Leslyn Haigh.[11] His son and heir, the Smalljon, is slain during the massacre.[7]
A Feast for Crows
The Greatjon is held captive at the Twins.[12] Following the siege of Riverrun, Jaime informs Ser Edwyn Frey and Walder Rivers that the King Tommen I Baratheon requires the transfer of all captives taken by House Frey in the Red Wedding.[13]
A Dance with Dragons
With the Greatjon still a captive of the Freys, a portion of House Umber, led by his uncle Hother Whoresbane, grudgingly swears fealty to House Bolton, though according to Lord Roose Bolton their loyalty is highly dubious.[14] The other half of the Umbers, under Mors Crowfood, take up the cause of Stannis Baratheon.[15]
Family
Jon is mentioned as having "sons and brothers" with him when he answers Robb's calling of the banners.[4] He also has daughters.[16] His eldest son and heir, Smalljon Umber, is killed during the Red Wedding.[17]
Hoarfrost | Unknown wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unknown Umber | Unknown wife | Mors | Unknown wife | Hother | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jon | Unknown wife | Sons | Sons | Daughter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jon | Sons | At least two daughters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quotes by Greatjon
Robb: My lord father taught me that it was death to bare steel against your liege lord, but doubtless you only meant to cut my meat.
Greatjon: Your meat, is bloody tough.[4]
– Greatjon to Robb Stark after Grey Wind bites off two fingers
We'll shove our swords up Tywin Lannister's bunghole soon enough, begging your pardons, and then it's on to the Red Keep to free Ned.[18]
– Greatjon to Catelyn Stark
MY LORDS! Here is what I say to these two kings! Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong. The Others take the Lannisters too, I've had a bellyful of them. Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead! There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords. The King in the North![2]
Leave off, Karstark, it was a mother's folly. Women are made that way.[3]
– Greatjon to Rickard Karstark
– Greatjon to Robb Stark
Quotes about Greatjon
– Robb Stark to Bran Stark
Catelyn: Your father once told me that the Greatjon was as fearless as any man he had ever known.
Robb: Grey Wind ate two of his fingers, and he laughed about it.[18]
– Catelyn Stark and Robb Stark
He'd cozened the huge northman into drinking enough wine to kill any three normal men, yet after Roslin had been bedded the Greatjon still managed to snatch the sword of the first man to accost him and break his arm in the snatching. It had taken eight of them to get him into chains, and the effort had left two men wounded, one dead, and poor old Ser Leslyn Haigh short half a ear. When he couldn't fight with his hands any longer, Umber had fought with his teeth.[11]
– Merrett Frey's thoughts
References and Notes
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Jon Umber (Greatjon).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 53, Bran VI.
- ↑ Game of Throne cast so far on Liftingfaces
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 21, Jaime III.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 63, Catelyn X.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 69, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Storm of Swords, Epilogue.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 44, Jaime VII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 46, A Ghost in Winterfell.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 51, Sansa IV.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 55, Catelyn VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
External Links
Greatjon Umber on the Game of Thrones wiki.