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==Appearance==
Harry is very handsome. He has sandy brown hair, deep blue eyes and dimples when he smiles. He looks every inch a young lord-in-waiting:  straight as a lance, clean-limbed, and hard with muscle. It is said that Harry look so much like Jon Arryn himself in his youth.<ref name=sample>[[Alayne I (The Winds of Winter)]]</ref> [[Petyr Baelish]] says that a wife of Harry would be the envy of every highborn maiden in the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], as well as a few from the [[riverlands]] and the [[Reach]].{{ref|aFfC|41}}
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Harry is very handsome. He has sandy hair, deep blue eyes and dimples when he smiles.{{Ref|AFFC|41}} 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.<ref name=sample>[[Alayne I (The Winds of Winter)]]</ref> [[Petyr Baelish]] says that a wife of Harry would be the envy of every highborn maiden in the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]], as well as a few from the [[riverlands]] and the [[Reach]].{{ref|aFfC|41}}
  
A ''The Winds of Winter'' sample chapter describes Harrold as having sandy blond hair, pale blue eyes, and an aquiline nose.
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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]].<ref name=sample></ref>
 
 
Harrold's personal heraldry that he displays on his shield consists of the sigil of House Hardyng quartered with the sigil of House Waynwood (as he is Lady Anya's ward and first cousin once removed), as well as with the moon-and-falcon sigil of House Arryn.  Harrold did not quarter his heraldry in the traditional way when three sigils are combined - with his direct family sigil for House Hardyng repeated in two opposite quarters, then one for Arryn and one for Waynwood.  Instead, Harrold's personal heraldry has two quarters devoted to the ''Arryn'' sigil - which would only be normally done if he was born an Arryn.  This choice is a bold proclamation of his status as Lord Robert Arrryn's closest living heir (as his first cousin once removed).  Even without seeing Harrold's heraldry, young and sickly Robert laments that Harrold is just waiting for him to die so he can become the new Lord of the Vale.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==

Revision as of 19:51, 8 April 2015

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Aliases
  • Harry the Heir
  • Young Falcon
  • Harry the Arse[1]
Title Ser
Allegiances
Born In 281 AC or 282 AC[2]
Books

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]

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 that he fathered on a girl named Cissy. However, he said that childbirth left Cissy "fat as a cow" so Lady Waynwood arranged for her to be married off to one of her men-at-arms. Some time afterwards, he impregnated a girl named Saffron, the daughter of one of the richest spice merchants in Gulltown, and she is expected to give birth to his second acknowledged bastard.[4]

Robert's Heir

Jasper Arryn had two sons and a daughter. Jon became Lord and left one son, Robert. Jon's brother Ronnel died as his son Elbert was being born, and Elbert was later killed by King Aerys II Targaryen.

Jon's sister Alys had eight daughters and a son. Through an unfortunate series of unrelated events, the boy and four of the girls died young or childless, a fifth had one child who died young, a sixth became a septa, and another became a silent sister. The last, and youngest daughter died shortly after giving birth to Harrold, leaving Robert and Harrold as the last inheritable descendents of Jasper Arryn, and Harrold as Robert's heir presumptive. Should the sickly Lord Robert die without an heir, Harrold would suceed him as Lord of the Eyrie and Defender of the Vale. Since Harry is called the Young Falcon, it is presumed he would take the Arryn name.[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.[5]

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Alayne I (The Winds of Winter)
  2. See the Harrold Hardyng calculation
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
  4. Alayne sample chapter (The Winds of Winter)
  5. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.