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'''House Wydman''' is a noble house from the [[Vale of Arryn]]. It blazons its arms with 5 splintered lances, 3-2, striped blue and white with blue pennons, on yellow, beneath a white chief bearing a red castle, a green viper, a black broken wheel, a purple [[unicorn]] and a yellow [[lion]].<ref name=heraldry>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/5/ Houses in the Vale]</ref> Its words are "Right Conquers Might."<ref>The Citadel. [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/ House Mottoes]</ref>
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'''House Wydman''' is a noble house from the [[Vale of Arryn]]. It blazons its arms with 5 splintered lances, 3-2, striped blue and white with blue pennons, on yellow, beneath a white chief bearing a red castle, a green [[Snake|viper]], a black broken wheel, a purple [[unicorn]] and a yellow [[lion]].<ref name=heraldry>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/5/ Houses in the Vale]</ref> Its words are "Right Conquers Might."<ref>The Citadel. [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/ House Mottoes]</ref>
  
 
According to a semi-canon source, the Wydmans are a [[Landed knight|knightly family]].<ref name=CG>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]'': The Vale of Arryn</ref>
 
According to a semi-canon source, the Wydmans are a [[Landed knight|knightly family]].<ref name=CG>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]'': The Vale of Arryn</ref>

Revision as of 14:56, 5 February 2021

House Wydman
House Wydman.svg
Right Conquers Might
Coat of arms Five splintered lances, 3, 2, striped blue and white with blue pennons, on a yellow field, beneath a white chief bearing a red castle, a green viper, a black broken wheel, a purple unicorn and a yellow lion
(Or, five broken lances, 3, 2, striped azure and argent, pennons of the second, on a chief of the third, a wheel broken sable between, on the dexter, a castle gules and snake vert, and, on the sinister, a unicorn rampant purpure and lion rampant of the field)
Head Unknown
Region Vale of Arryn
Overlord House Arryn

House Wydman is a noble house from the Vale of Arryn. It blazons its arms with 5 splintered lances, 3-2, striped blue and white with blue pennons, on yellow, beneath a white chief bearing a red castle, a green viper, a black broken wheel, a purple unicorn and a yellow lion.[1] Its words are "Right Conquers Might."[2]

According to a semi-canon source, the Wydmans are a knightly family.[3]

History

House Wydman derives from a tourney in which the founder of the house bested five knights from the Vale and the Westerlands.[4] The arms of the defeated, which are displayed above the five broken lances of the Wydmans, suggest Houses Redfort, Lynderly, Waynwood, Brax, and Lannister.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

A noble displaying a broken lance is present in the High Hall of the Eyrie when Tyrion Lannister demands a trial by battle to prove his innocence of the claims put against him.[5]

House Wydman at the end of the third century

The known Wydmans during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:

  • no member has appeared yet.

References

  1. The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Vale
  2. The Citadel. House Mottoes
  3. A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide: The Vale of Arryn
  4. The Citadel. Heraldry: House Wydman
  5. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 38, Tyrion V.