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Miller's wife
Alias Ramsay's mother
Allegiance House Bolton
Born In the North
Book A Dance with Dragons (mentioned)

The miller's wife is the mother of Ramsay Snow.

Appearance

She was tall and willowy, with long legs and small firm breasts. According to Roose Bolton, she was pretty, "in a common sort of way", and very healthy-looking.[1]

History

She married the old miller of the mill by the Weeping Water stream, who was twice her age. One day, Lord Roose Bolton was hunting a fox along the Weeping Water, when he chanced upon the mill and saw her washing clothes in the stream. The moment Roose saw her, he desired her. According to the illegal first night custom, it was Roose's right to bed the bride. As the miller had married without his lord's permission or knowledge, Roose felt he had been cheated, and had him hanged. Roose then raped the miller's wife under the tree where her husband was hanging.[1]

A year later, the miller's wife came to the Dreadfort with her infant son, Ramsay, who she claimed was Roose's bastard. Roose debated having her whipped for her impudence, and killing her son, until he saw that the child had his pale blue eyes. The woman claimed that when her dead husband's brother had seen the baby's eyes, he had beaten her and sent her away from the mill. Roose was annoyed by this, so he gave the woman the possession of the mill, and cut out the tongue of the old miller's brother, so that he could not tell Lord Rickard Stark about Lord Bolton's unlawful activities.[1]

Every year, Roose Bolton would send her some piglets and chickens, and a bag of stars, on the understanding that she was never to tell Ramsay who his father was. However, she disobeyed him, and often told Ramsay about his rights. One day, she returned to the Dreadfort to demand that Roose provide a servant for Ramsay, who was growing up wild and unruly. Roose gave her Reek, as a joke, but the man and Ramsay became inseparable. Ramsay stayed with his mother until Domeric Bolton returned to the Dreadfort after his fostering with House Redfort, and came to the mill by the Weeping Water to seek out his bastard brother for companionship; after Domeric died, Roose brought Ramsay to the Dreadfort as he lacked any other heirs.[1][2]

Ramsay often says that Roose met his mother while out riding, and was "smitten by her beauty".[1]

Quotes

This miller's marriage had been performed without my leave or knowledge. The man had cheated me. So I had him hanged, and claimed my rights beneath the tree where he was swaying. If truth be told, the wench was hardly worth the rope. The fox escaped as well, and on our way back to the Dreadfort my favorite courser came up lame, so all in all it was a dismal day.[1]

Get the keys and remove those chains from him, before you make me rue the day I raped your mother.[1]

—Roose Bolton, to Ramsay

References