House Piper
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House Piper of Pinkmaiden | |
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Brave and Beautiful
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Coat of arms | A pink dancing maiden in a swirl of white silk, over blue |
Seat | Pinkmaiden Castle |
Head | Clement Piper |
Region | the Riverlands |
Heir | Marq Piper |
Overlord | House Tully |
House Piper of Pinkmaiden is one a noble house from the Riverlands. Its seat at Pinkmaiden Castle is located close to the border with the Westerlands.
Their blazon is a pink dancing maiden in a swirl of white silk, over blue.[1] [2] Their motto is not mentioned in the books, but in semi-canon sources it is listed as «Brave and Beautiful».[3]
Contents
The Piper House at the end of the third century
The known Pipers during the timespan of the events described on A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Lord Clement Piper, Lord of Pinkmaiden Castle.
- Ser Marq Piper, his eldest son. Heir to Pinkmaiden Castle. A hot-tempered young knight, good friends with Edmure Tully.
- Lewys Piper, his younger son. He is a young squire.[4]
With unknown familiar relation to the head of the house:
- An unnamed Lady of House Piper was the third wife of Quellon Greyjoy. When her stepson, Urrigon Greyjoy lost half his hand during the finger dance she had her maester try to sew back the missing fingers instead of sealing the wound with fire and water. The wound got infected and Urrigon died. She later died in chilbirth.[5]
Lord Piper | Unknown wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clement | Unknown wife | Lady Piper | Quellon Greyjoy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marq | Lewys | Robin Greyjoy | Stillborn daughter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References in the books
A Song of Ice and Fire
- Among the gathered knights at the Tourney of the Hand was one with the arms of House Piper.
- Edmure Tully commanded Lord Vance and Lord Clement Piper to guard the pass below the Golden Tooth when the Lannisters start to mass troops there.
- Ser Marq Piper went to King's Landing with Ser Karyl Vance and Ser Raymun Darry to report to the King the attacks of Ser Gregor Clegane on undefended holdfasts in the Riverlands.
- The Lannister troops in the Golden Tooth descended on the Riverlands, slaying Lord Vance and forcing Lord Piper to flee.
- Ser Gregor burned out the Pipers during his raiding of the Riverlands.
- Ser Marq Piper, accompanied by Karyl Vance and no more than fifty men, raided the supply trains to the Lannister army in the Riverlands.
- The Piper dancing maiden was spotted by Catelyn Tully in a camp north of the Tumblestone upon her return from the south.
- Lord Piper's bailiff hanged Jack-Be-Lucky's father.
- Ser Marq Piper was captured by the Freys at the Red Wedding.
- Lord Piper sent a troop of men to King's Landing to bend the knee after the Red Wedding. They spread the news south of what had happened at the Twins.
- Sandor Clegane and Arya Stark encountered another survivor of the Red Wedding, a bowman in service to Ser Marq. He had celebrated with a Bolton man who attacked him when the time came to begin the Red Wedding. He escaped but was severely injured. Sandor put him out of his misery.
- Lord Quellon Greyjoy's third wife was a member of House Piper. They had one son, Robin Greyjoy.
- Lord Quellon's wife was big breasted with brown eyes.
- Lewys Piper is named one of Ser Jaime Lannister's squires on the ride north to Riverrun.
- Daven Lannister once beat the elder brother of Lewys in a melee once.
- Ser Jaime Lannister spotted the banner of House Piper among those of the Riverlords who had bent the knee and now aided House Lannister in the siege of Riverrun.
- Lord Clement sits on the war council of the forces besieging Riverrun.
References and Notes
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 65, Arya
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Riverlands
- ↑ The Citadel. House Mottoes
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 27, Jaime
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 1, The Prophet
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