#ser uthor underleaf

[racefortheironthrone]

How typical were non aristo men that excelled at jousting like Ser Uthor Underleaf and Ser Glendon Ball, IRL and in Westeros?

Well, Uthor Underleaf and Glendon Ball are both aristocrats, just from one of the very lowest rungs of the nobility.

But in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, you'd find quite a lot of men-at-arms who were excellent jousters but who were humble "milites gregarii."

[sonesapuff]

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Arms and Armour of the Seven Kingdoms!

Daemon II Blackfyre

Ser Tommard Heddle

Ser Uthor Underleaf

Lord Lyonel Baratheon

The Kingsguard

Prince Baelor Targaryen

Ser Loras Tyrell

Ser Vardis Egen

Ser Jaime Lannister

King Renly Baratheon

[goodqueenaly]

Bonus House Words Wednesdays: House Cockshaw

I knew I ended House Words Wednesdays as a regular thing a while back, but since this project is my baby I figured I can return anytime I want. I was rereading "The Mystery Knight" and decided that since I had never done the Cockshaw words, I would do a short post about them.

To be sure, we know very little about House Cockshaw. We know the Cockshaws are from the Reach (which seems to have been the major basis for Daemon Blackfyre's support in the First Blackfyre Rebellion), and we know the family sigil, but nothing else. I had once speculated that the Cockshaw lands were in the far northeast of the Reach, close to the crownlands, since Alyn Cockshaw spent a good amount of time with Daemon Blackfyre’s children in his youth (which would make sense if the Cockshaw keep was near wherever Daemon’s keep was in the Crownlands), but that's at best a guess. Likewise, we have only ever met one Cockshaw, Lord Alyn, a "plump, pasty-faced, perfumed lordling" who had grown close to Daemon the Younger during their childhoods. Daemon's waning interest in Alyn, however - combined with Daemon's immediate, intense attraction to Dunk - inspired Alyn to attempt to have Dunk murdered, though neither attempt ended successfully - first because Ser Uthor Underleaf resented the low bribe offered him to do so, second because Dunk bested Alyn in a short, bloody scuffle and sent him tumbling down a well. It's unclear what happened to the Cockshaws thereafter: while the family was still a lordly one after the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Roland Crakehall's prediction that "it will go harder for those who took pardons after the Redgrass Field", who would "be imprisoned or attainted" (with "[t]he worst ... [losing] their heads") might suggest that House Cockshaw did not do too well after the abortive Second Blackfyre Rebellion.

"Cockshaw", as a family name, seems like a straightforward play on the word "cocksure" - that is, overconfident, presumptuous, and unduly assured of oneself. It is a word perfectly fitting for the only Cockshaw we have ever known, Alyn - an arrogant lordling who obsessed over being close to Daemon, as his exclusive lover and commander of his Kingsguard, but whose attempts to eliminate his assumed rival Dunk only ended in his own death by drowning. But I'm more curious about the family sigil - three feathers, red, white and gold, on black. It is a sigil which bears a striking resemblance to the symbol of the Prince of Wales - originally three white ostrich feathers on black (now usually depicted as three white ostrich feathers within a coronet). If the probable origins of the badge are less romantic and more dynastically punny - a nod to Edward the Black Prince's Hainault connections (whose county heir was the "Count of Ostrevent", similar to the French for "ostrich", "autruche" or "ostruce") rather than a means of honoring the dead King John of Bohemia after Crécy - it is nevertheless too familiar as an ongoing symbol of the Prince of Wales for me to believe GRRM is unfamiliar with it (and note that his beloved The Accursed Kings repeats the legend of the Prince of Wales' feathers in The King without a Kingdom). Perhaps giving Alyn Cockshaw this symbol was a way for GRRM to hint that Alyn's companion was a sort of Prince of Wales among the Blackfyres; perhaps GRRM meant to contrast the arrogant, murderous, distinctly unchivalrous Alyn with what Maurice Druon calls the "noble demise" of the blind King John of Bohemia, the "model of chivalry", who according to the legend had insisted on fighting (and dying) at Crécy despite his disability.

Whatever his intent, the symbol gave me an idea for the Cockshaw words - We Serve. The Prince of Wales' badge is usually depicted with a ribbon bearing the German phrase "Ich dien", "I serve". While the phrase may sound positive on its face, I thought that in Alyn its very simplicity and meaning would reflect his negative qualities. Alyn not only looked down on Dunk from the first - calling him a "brigand" and "the largest lout I have ever seen", confidently predicting "[w]hat a mighty crash he'll make when he comes tumbling down", and only asking for Dunk's forgiveness at Daemon's insistence, without actually sticking around to hear the answer - but, observing Daemon's obvious attraction to Dunk, tried twice to have Dunk killed, sneering at him that "Daemon's mine. I will command his Kingsguard. You are not worthy of a white cloak". Alyn insisted, very nearly to the point of murder, on reminding Dunk that he alone would serve Daemon, sexually as well as martially (that is, as the commander of his Kingsguard). Arrogance and service go together rather poorly, of course, as Alyn learned to his cost; in trying to enforce what he saw as his exclusive position of service toward Daemon, Alyn only found himself falling right into the very trap he had tried to set for Dunk. The Cockshaws might have served the Blackfyres loyally in the First Blackfyre Rebellion, but Alyn fared rather worse in his attempt to secure what he saw as service to the second Blackfyre claimant.

[laannie0803]

Dunk, mejor conocido como Ser Duncan el Alto, fue un caballero errante originario del Lecho de Pulgas. Fue escudero de Ser Arlan del Árbol de la Moneda, compañero de Aegon V Targaryen y posteriormente Lord Comandante de la Guardia Real del mismo. Su emblema personal es una estrella fugaz verde sobre un olmo en campo de ocaso.

Es fuerte y rápido, siendo entrenado en justas y el manejo de la espada. Es un hombre humilde que se considera a sí mismo torpe y cabeza dura.

Los recuerdos más antiguos de Dunk son los de vivir como ladronzuelo en las calles del Lecho de Pulgas en Desembarco del Rey. Ser Arlan del Árbol de la Moneda tomó a Dunk como escudero y lo crió hasta su adolescencia. El optimismo humilde de Ser Arlan influenció la forma de ver la vida de Dunk, aunque el apodo constante de su protector, Dunk el Tocho, mermó su confianza en sí mismo.

Cuando Dunk tenía unos 16 años, Ser Arlan murió inesperadamente de camino a Vado Ceniza. Dunk enterró a Ser Arlan y decidió competir en el Torneo de Vado Ceniza él mismo. De camino, conoció a un chico con la cabeza rapada llamado Egg, quien le rogó ser su escudero. Dunk eventualmente accedió. Acamparon justo a las afueras de Vado Ceniza, bajo un olmo, donde vieron una estrella fugaz pasando por el cielo del ocaso. Para Dunk, el momento simbolizó los placeres humildes de la vida de caballero errante. En la mañana, Dunk vendió el equipo de Ser Arlan y compró una armadura de su tamaño. Necesitando un blasón, le pidió a una marionetista dorniense, Tanselle, que pintara su escudo: una estrella fugaz sobre un olmo en campo del ocaso.

Dunk sostiene ante los organizadores del torneo que Ser Arlan le nombró caballero antes de morir, pero nadie recuerda a Ser Arlan. Eventualmente, Dunk le pregunta a Baelor Lanzarrota, quien había justado con Ser Arlan en una ocasión, si recuerda al difunto caballero; Baelor le permite a Dunk participar en el torneo. Esa tarde, el príncipe Aerion Targaryen ataca a los marionetistas, que estaban representando la muerte de un dragón. Dunk ayuda a los dornienses, corrigiendo a Aerion a base de golpes en el proceso. Dunk es apresado por los guardias del príncipe, pero Egg, descubriendo su verdadera identidad como el príncipe Aegon Targaryen, le protege de mayores daños.

Aerion, en venganza, demanda un juicio de Siete, un juicio por combate de siete combatientes por lado. Egg ayuda a Dunk a encontrar aliados, los que en última instancia incluyen al mismo Baelor; sus aliados le ayudan porque consideran a Dunk un verdadero caballero, que recordó sus votos y ayudó a los débiles en vez de cerrar los ojos ante la conducta de un príncipe. Durante el combate, Dunk se enfrenta a Aerion y, debido a su inexperiencia con la espada y la lanza, casi muere. Usando su fuerza y las habilidades de lucha callejera que aprendiera en el Lecho de Pulgas, Dunk ataca a Aerion y le obliga a rendirse. La victoria es agridulce, pues dos de sus hombres mueren y, poco después, Baelor fallece por una herida en la cabeza recibida de su propio hermano. Estas muertes llenan de culpa a Dunk, especialmente la del príncipe heredero.

Luego del torneo, el padre de Egg, Maekar, le pide a Dunk que tome a su hijo como escudero oficial. Dunk accede, pero rechaza servir a la Casa Targaryen y rodearse de lujos, prefiriendo la vida de un caballero errante y enseñándole a Egg humildad, lo que su hermano mayor Aerion nunca aprendió.

Duncan y Aegon viajaron a Dorne, atravesando el Paso del Príncipe, y parando eventualmente en Vaith. Cruzando el desierto, uno de sus caballos murió, y Dunk y Egg tuvieron que montar en Trueno. Mientras que entre 209 y 210 d.C. la Gran Epidemia Primaveral asoló Poniente, Dunk y Egg la evitaron al encontrarse en Dorne, uno de los dos lugares a donde la peste no había llegado. Dunk y Egg tomaron una barca por el Sangreverde a los Tablones, donde tomaron el pasaje en la galeaza Dama Blanca hacia Antigua. A bordo del buque, Duncan tuvo su primera experiencia de combate naval cuando ayudó a repeler algunos asaltantes. En Antigua, visitaron al hermano de Aegon, Aemon.

Dunk y Egg viajan al Dominio y entran al servicio de Ser Eustace Osgrey de Tiesa, un caballero pobre. Junto al otro caballero al servicio de Ser Eustace, Ser Bennis el Moreno, descubren que algunos aldeanos de Lady Rohanne Webber de Fosafría habían tapiado el arroyo local, el río Jaquel. Bennis provocó a Lady Rohanne al herir a uno de sus hombres y Dunk tuvo que acudir a Fosafría para razonar con ella. A pesar de la tensión sexual en la conversación, Rohanne se rehusó a sacar el dique y le contó a Dunk sobre el apoyo y participación de Ser Eustace en favor de Daemon Fuegoscuro durante la Rebelión Fuegoscuro.

Choqueado por la revelación, Dunk intenta dejar el servicio de Ser Eustace, pero un incendio del bosque cercano hace a Dunk sospechar que Lady Rohanne ha empezado su campaña contra Ser Eustace. Luego de la huida de Bennis, Dunk y unos pocos campesinos son toda la defensa de Tiesa. Dunk hace que los campesinos se refugien y promete enfrentar a Lady Rohanne junto a Ser Eustace. Dunk se ofrece a zanjar el asunto con un juicio por combate y Lady Rohanne accede, enviando a su mayordomo, Ser Lucas Inchfield, a pelear contra Dunk. Una vez más, la fuerza y habilidades de pelea compensan la falta de maestría con la espada de Dunk. Mata a Ser Lucas, pero es herido de gravedad y casi se ahoga en el río.

Luego de recuperarse, Dunk descubre que Eustace y Rohanne han terminado con sus diferencias y planean casarse. Lady Rohanne la ofrece a Llama a Dunk, como un regalo por el papel que desempeñó en su reconciliación, pero este la rechaza, besa a Rohanne y corta un pedazo de su trenza como recuerdo. Luego, Dunk y Egg se van de Tiesa.

Dunk y Egg dejan Septo de Piedra y se dirigen al Norte, con la esperanza de entrar al servicio de Lord Beron Stark, quien ha llamado por hombres para defenderse de las redadas Greyjoy en la costa norte. De camino se encuentran con un septón que había sido decapitado por dar sermones de traición; Dunk recuerda que Lord Cuervo de Sangre tiene espías en todos lados. Se encuentran con Lord Gormon Peake, Lord Alyn Cockshaw y un hombre ricamente vestido que dice ser un caballero errante llamado Ser John el Violinista. Dunk es desafiado e insultado por Peake y Cockshaw, pero el Violinista lo trata con cortesía. Ser John invita a Dunk a la boda de Lord Ambrose Butterwell; habría una justa para celebrar su boda con una Frey del Cruce y el premio era un huevo de dragón. Durante el camino hacia la boda, Dunk se hace amigo de tres caballeros errantes. La boda se celebra en Murosblancos; luego de ver la lista de invitados, Egg le informa a Dunk que esta parece ser una excusa para una reunión de traidores pues casi todos los invitados habían peleado por los Fuegoscuro. Luego del encamamiento, Ser John se acerca a Dunk y le dice que lo ha reconocido: Dunk había aparecido en uno de sus sueños, en el cual Duncan vestía una armadura completamente blanca, como las de la Guardia Real. El Violinista le dice que sus sueños siempre se cumplen y que también soñó la muerte de sus hermanos y que un dragón eclosionaría de un huevo en Murosblancos.

Dunk entra en la justa como el Caballero del Patíbulo, una identidad como caballero misterioso, y pierde contra Ser Uthor Underleaf, quien casi lo mata. Al ir a entregarle su armadura y caballo tras el fracaso, Ser Uthor le dice que alguien le había pagado para matarlo y que lo habría hecho si le hubiesen dado más dinero. Antes de la que justa continúe, se extiende el rumor de que el huevo de dragón ha desaparecido. Se culpa a Ser Glendon Ball, quien es apresado por Peake. Dunk nota que Egg está perdido y parte en su busca. Durante la búsqueda, casi es asesinado por Alyn Cockshaw, quien había sido el que había pagado a Ser Uthor. Maynard Plumm interviene y envía a Dunk al septo, donde está Egg.

Dunk encuentra a su escudero y a un acobardado Lord Butterwell, quien ha descubierto la verdadera identidad de Egg. Egg le cuenta a Ambrose que él y Dunk eran espías enviados para investigar la boda y torneo y que su padre, el príncipe Maekar, se dirije ya hacia el lugar con un ejército. Esto es falso, pero sirve para asustar a Lord Ambrose. El hijo adoptivo de Butterwell, Tom Heddle, aparece e intenta herir a Egg, pero es asesinado por Dunk. Dunk le ordena a Egg que se marche junto a Lord Butterwell; para encubrir su escape, Dunk confronta a Daemon II Fuegoscuro, acusando a Gormon Peake de acusar falsamente a Ball por el robo del huevo de dragón.

Dunk encuentra a Lord Cuervo de Sangre en su pabellón, fuera del cual están las cabezas en picas de Peake y Tom Heddle. Lord Cuervo de Sangre, en gratitud, le da a Dunk el oro suficiente para recuperar su armadura y caballo. Le dice además que el huevo había sido hurtado por uno de sus agentes y que se encuentra seguro

Siendo aun un príncipe, Aegon desposa a Betha Blackwood; nombran a su primer hijo y heredero Duncan, quien es apodado Duncan el Pequeño en contraste a Dunk.

Luego de que Egg asciende al Trono de Hierro como el rey Aegon V Targaryen, éste le pide a Dunk ser parte de su Guardia Real, de la que eventualmente llegará a ser Lord Comandante.

Durante el reinado de Aegon V, Ser Duncan escolta al maestre Aemon y a Brynden Ríos al Muro por mandato del rey Aegon. También es el responsable de asesinar en combate al autoproclamado rey Daemon III Fuegoscuro en la que sería conocida como Cuarta Rebelión Fuegoscuro.

Luego de que el príncipe Duncan desposara a una campesina e hiciera caso omiso de su compromiso con la hija de Lord Lyonel Baratheon, éste monta en cólera y se declara en rebelión, autoproclamándose Rey de la Tormenta. Ser Duncan se enfrenta a Lord Lyonel en combate y sale victorioso, acabando con la rebelión del noble tormenteño. Para compensar el agravio, el rey Aegon V decide enviar a su hija menor, la princesa Rhaelle, como copera y dama de compañía a Bastión de Tormentas.

Dunk muere junto al rey Aegon y el príncipe Duncan en la Tragedia de Refugio Estival en circunstancias desconocidas; únicamente se hace referencia a que fue de manera honorable.

Por razones que se desconocen, un escudo con el emblema original de Dunk llega a la armería de Lord Selwyn Tarth en el Castillo del Atardecer. La hija de Lord Selwyn, Brienne, utiliza una copia de su emblema mientras viaja por las Tierras de los Ríos de incógnito.

Por correspondencia con el autor, George R. R. Martin, se especula que Dunk haya tenido hijos en sus aventuras por Poniente y que alguno de sus descendientes esté presente en la serie desde Tormenta de Espadas.

Si lo se, Chris Hemsworth hubiera estado mejor para Duncan y no lo pense bien, aun así hice dos con el principe de Once Upon a Time ya que en algunos dibujos de este personaje lo ponen de cabello corto y a veces casi rubio.

Dunk, better known as Ser Duncan the Tall, was a wandering knight from the Flea Bed. He was a squire to Ser Arlan of the Coin Tree, companion of Aegon V Targaryen and later Lord Commander of the Royal Guard of the same. His personal emblem is a green shooting star on an elm tree in a sunset field.

He is strong and fast, being trained in jousting and swordplay. He is a humble man who considers himself clumsy and hard-headed.

Dunk's oldest memories are of living as a petty thief on the streets of the Flea Bed in King's Landing. Ser Arlan of the Coin Tree took Dunk as a squire and raised him into his teens. Ser Arlan's humble optimism influenced Dunk's outlook on life, though his patron's constant nickname, Dunk the Bilge, eroded his self-confidence.

When Dunk was about 16 years old, Ser Arlan died unexpectedly on the way to Ashford. Dunk buried Ser Arlan and decided to compete in the Ashford Tournament himself. On the way, he met a boy with a shaved head named Egg, who begged him to be his squire. Dunk eventually agreed. They camped just outside Ashford, under an elm tree, where they saw a shooting star passing through the sunset sky. For Dunk, the moment symbolized the humble joys of the wandering knight life. In the morning, Dunk sold Ser Arlan's gear and bought armor his size. Needing a crest, he asked a Dornish puppeteer, Tanselle, to paint her shield: a shooting star on an elm in the sunset field.

Dunk claims to tournament organizers that Ser Arlan knighted him before he died, but no one remembers Ser Arlan. Eventually, Dunk asks Baelor Lanzarrota, who had just met Ser Arlan once, if he remembers the late knight; Baelor allows Dunk to participate in the tournament. That afternoon, Prince Aerion Targaryen attacks the puppeteers, who were enacting the death of a dragon. Dunk helps the Dornishmen, correcting Aerion with blows in the process. Dunk is captured by the prince's guards, but Egg, discovering his true identity as Prince Aegon Targaryen, protects him from further harm.

Aerion, in revenge, demands a trial of Seven, a trial by combat of seven combatants per side. Egg helps Dunk find allies, which ultimately include Baelor himself; his allies help him because they consider Dunk a true knight, who remembered his vows and helped the weak instead of closing his eyes to the conduct of a prince. During combat, Dunk confronts Aerion and, due to his inexperience with sword and spear, nearly dies. Using his strength and the street fighting skills he learned on the Flea Bed, Dunk attacks Aerion and forces him to surrender. The victory is bittersweet, as two of his men die and, shortly after, Baelor dies from a head injury received from his own brother. These deaths fill Dunk with guilt, especially that of the crown prince.

After the tournament, Egg's father, Maekar, asks Dunk to take his son as an official squire. Dunk agrees, but refuses to serve House Targaryen and surround himself with luxury, preferring the life of a wandering knight and teaching Egg humility, which his older brother Aerion never learned.

Duncan and Aegon traveled to Dorne, crossing the Prince's Pass, and eventually stopping at Vaith. Crossing the desert, one of his horses died, and Dunk and Egg had to ride Thunder. While between 209 and 210 AD The Great Spring Epidemic devastated Westeros, Dunk and Egg avoided it when they found themselves in Dorne, one of the two places where the plague had not reached. Dunk and Egg took a boat through the Green Blood to the Planks, where they took the passage on the White Lady galleys to Antigua. On board the ship, Duncan had his first experience of naval combat when he helped repel some attackers. In Antigua, they visited Aegon's brother, Aemon.

Dunk and Egg travel to the Domain and enter the service of Ser Eustace Osgrey of Tiesa, a poor knight. Together with the other knight in Ser Eustace's service, Ser Bennis the Brown, they discover that some of the Lady Rohanne Webber villagers of Coldmoat had blocked the local stream, the Jaquel River. Bennis provoked Lady Rohanne by wounding one of his men, and Dunk had to go to Coldmoat to reason with him. Despite the sexual tension in the conversation, Rohanne refused to remove the dam and told Dunk about Ser Eustace's support and involvement in favor of Daemon Darkfire during the Darkfire Rebellion.

Shocked by the revelation, Dunk attempts to leave Ser Eustace's service, but a fire in the nearby forest makes Dunk suspect that Lady Rohanne has started her campaign against Ser Eustace. After Bennis escapes, Dunk and a few peasants are Tiesa's entire defense. Dunk causes the peasants to take refuge and vows to confront Lady Rohanne alongside Ser Eustace. Dunk offers to settle the matter with a trial by combat and Lady Rohanne agrees, sending her butler, Ser Lucas Inchfield, to fight Dunk. Once again, strength and fighting skills make up for Dunk's lack of sword mastery. He kills Ser Lucas, but is seriously wounded and nearly drowns in the river.

After recovering, Dunk discovers that Eustace and Rohanne have ended their differences and plan to marry. Lady Rohanne offers her to Llama a Dunk, as a gift for the role she played in their reconciliation, but he rejects her, kisses Rohanne and cuts a piece of her braid as a memento. Later, Dunk and Egg leave Tiesa.

Dunk and Egg leave Stone Septo and head north, hoping to enter the service of Lord Beron Stark, who has called for men to defend himself against Greyjoy raids on the north shore. On the way they come across a septon who had been beheaded for giving treason sermons; Dunk remembers that Lord Blood Raven has spies everywhere. They meet Lord Gormon Peake, Lord Alyn Cockshaw, and a richly dressed man who claims to be a wandering knight named Ser John the Fiddler. Dunk is challenged and insulted by Peake and Cockshaw, but the Fiddler treats him courteously. Ser John invites Dunk to Lord Ambrose Butterwell's wedding; there would be a joust to celebrate his wedding with a Frey del Cruce and the prize was a dragon egg. On the way to the wedding, Dunk befriends three errant gentlemen. The wedding is celebrated in Murosblancos; After viewing the guest list, Egg informs Dunk that this appears to be an excuse for a gathering of traitors as almost all of the guests had fought for the Darkfires. After bedridden, Ser John approaches Dunk and tells him that he has recognized him: Dunk had appeared in one of his dreams, in which Duncan wore completely white armor, like those of the Royal Guard. The Violinist tells him that his dreams always come true and that he also dreamed of the death of his brothers and that a dragon would hatch from an egg in Whitewalls.

Dunk enters the joust as the Knight of the Gallows, an identity as a mysterious knight, and loses to Ser Uthor Underleaf, who nearly killed him. Going to deliver his armor and horse to him after the failure, Ser Uthor tells him that someone had paid him to kill him and that he would have done it if they had given him more money. Before the joust continues, a rumor spreads that the dragon egg has disappeared. Ser Glendon Ball, who is caught by Peake, is blamed. Dunk notices that Egg is missing and sets off in search of him. During the search, he was nearly killed by Alyn Cockshaw, who had been the one who had paid Ser Uthor. Maynard Plumm intervenes and sends Dunk to the sept, where Egg is.

Dunk finds his squire and a cowering Lord Butterwell, who has discovered Egg's true identity. Egg tells Ambrose that he and Dunk were spies sent to investigate the wedding and tournament and that his father, Prince Maekar, is already heading there with an army. This is false, but it serves to scare Lord Ambrose. Butterwell's adopted son, Tom Heddle, appears and tries to hurt Egg, but is killed by Dunk. Dunk orders Egg to leave with Lord Butterwell; To cover up his escape, Dunk confronts Daemon II Darkfire, accusing Gormon Peake of falsely accusing Ball of stealing the dragon egg.

Dunk finds Lord Blood Raven in his pavilion, outside of which are the spade heads of Peake and Tom Heddle. Lord Blood Raven, in gratitude, gives Dunk enough gold to recover his armor and horse. He also tells him that the egg had been stolen by one of his agents and that he is safe

While still a prince, Aegon marries Betha Blackwood; They name their first son and heir Duncan, who is nicknamed Duncan the Little in contrast to Dunk.

After Egg ascends to the Iron Throne as King Aegon V Targaryen, he asks Dunk to be part of his Royal Guard, of which he will eventually become Lord Commander.

During Aegon V's reign, Ser Duncan escorted Maester Aemon and Brynden Rios to the Wall at the command of King Aegon. He is also responsible for assassinating the self-proclaimed King Daemon III Darkfire in what would be known as the Fourth Darkfire Rebellion.

After Prince Duncan married a peasant girl and ignored his engagement to Lord Lyonel Baratheon's daughter, he flew into a rage and declared rebellion, proclaiming himself King of the Storm. Ser Duncan faces Lord Lyonel in combat and is victorious, ending the tormenteño nobleman's rebellion. To make up for the grievance, King Aegon V decides to send his youngest daughter, Princess Rhaelle, as a cupbearer and companion to Storm's End.

Dunk dies alongside King Aegon and Prince Duncan in the Summer Haven Tragedy under unknown circumstances; it only refers to the fact that it was honorable.

For unknown reasons, a shield bearing Dunk's original emblem arrives in Lord Selwyn Tarth's armory at Sunset Castle. Lord Selwyn's daughter Brienne uses a copy of her emblem as she travels the Riverlands incognito.

By correspondence with the author, George R. R. Martin, it is speculated that Dunk has had children in her adventures in Westeros and that some of her descendants have been present in the series since A Storm of Swords.

Yes, I know, Chris Hemsworth would have been better for Duncan and I didn't think twice, even so I did two with the prince from Once Upon a Time since in some drawings of this character they put him with short hair and sometimes almost blonde.

[krnielk]

ser uthor underleaf is saul bettercall. change my mind

[warsofasoiaf]

Do you think some people like Steffon Baratheon, Arthur Dayne, and others let Rhaegar win the Jousts? Considering that Steffon was more likely than not a very skilled warrior like most Baratheons and Arthur Dayne well was Arthur Dayne wouldn't it stand to reason that since Rhaegar was never really said to be anything other than a "skilled" knight with the likes of Arthur, Robert, or Barristan that a lot of his victories were staged to a degree.

Remember that Jorah won a tournament too, at Lannisport, and he was certainly not more skilled than his final opponent: Jaime Lannister. Barristan even mentions that chance and luck have a lot to do in the tilts. In Barristan’s private thoughts, Barristan recriminates on not defeating Rhaegar, so that perhaps Ashara Dayne would have looked to him instead of Stark, and he would have given her the crown of blue roses and much grief may have been avoided. So it’s safe to say that at least some of Rhaegar’s victories were genuine, and that it is not beyond belief to think that someone like Arthur Dayne would fall in the tilt.

After all, if Arthur Dayne won every time, then the tournaments would be boring and no one would compete. The uncertainty is what helps make sports interesting.

Now, @goodqueenaly and I have discussed the notion of people fixing fights in tournaments before. Uthor Underleaf, for example, mentions fixing fights, as does Ser Kyle the Cat. There’s a lot of politicking in these tournaments as we see in both D&E novels that feature them, so it certainly merits further study. I wrote something about that here, and Nina followed on with some excellent analysis here, including the possibility of Tywin fixing the fights for Rhaegar to win as an attempt to broker a Cersei-Rhaegar union at the culmination of the tournament. So if there was a political gain in it, a jouster might arrange a fix, but that is far from guaranteed.

I think most of Rhaegar’s victories were genuine, he was not the greatest warrior of his generation, but he was an apt study and excelled at whatever he put his mind toward, it’s just sometimes his mind took a hard swerve into civil war town.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[haya-haya-iamthatiam]

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Published on Jun 2, 2015

3rd and final episode of the Tales of Dunk and Egg trilogy. Some time after returning from Dorne by way of Oldtown, Dunk and Egg are on their way from Stoney Sept to the North, where they hope to sell their services to Lord Beron Stark of Winterfell, who needs swords to repel the Ironborn attacks led by Dagon Greyjoy on the northern coast. On the way they encounter a septon who was beheaded for preaching treason; Dunk remembers that Lord Brynden Rivers has spies everywhere. On route Egg and Dunk encounter a lord's train led by Lord Gormon Peake of Starpike, whose arms are three black castles on a field of orange. Also in the party are a lord named Alyn Cockshaw and a well dressed and richly garbed man who claims to be a hedge knight named Ser John the Fiddler. Dunk is challenged and insulted by Peake and Cockshaw but the Fiddler treats him courteously. Before they ride off, Ser John invites Dunk to attend the wedding of Lord Ambrose Butterwell. There is to be a joust to celebrate the wedding of Butterwell to a Frey of the Crossing, the victor's prize is to be a dragon egg. Dunk takes a dislike to Gormon Peake; Ser Arlan to whom Dunk was squired claimed his previous squire Roger of Pennytree was slain by Gormon in the Battle of the Redgrass Field. Egg tells Dunk that Peake's arms of three castles on an orange field is because the Peake family used to own three castles, but two were forfeited to the Crown when Peake sided with House Blackfyre. Dunk decides to go to the wedding. During the journey Dunk befriends three fellow hedge knights - Kyle the Cat, Maynard Plumm and young Glendon Ball. The wedding is set at Whitewalls and after noticing the guest list, Egg informs Dunk of his suspicions that this was a traitor's wedding and the majority of the nobles attending had fought for the Blackfyres. Dunk tells him to keep his suspicions quiet and keep his head down. During the bedding Dunk is drafted by John the Fiddler to carry the bride to the bedchamber. Dunk does so and later when he goes for a breath of air, John the Fiddler talks to him saying that he recognized Dunk on the road. Dunk appeared to him in a dream in which Duncan wore the all white armor of the Kingsguard. The Fiddler says his dreams always come true, as he dreamt his brothers dead once and also a dragon hatching from an egg at Whitewalls. Dunk decides to enter the first match of the joust as a mystery knight known as the Gallows Knight (due to a new shield that once belonged to a knight of House Trant that Dunk had to buy as his old shield was damaged in his duel with Lucas Longinch)[3] in case anyone heard of a knight named Ser Duncan the Tall from Ashford,[4] but Dunk is defeated in his first tilt by Ser Uthor Underleaf known as the the Snail Knight due to his sigil. Underleaf's lance hits Duncan upon the helm, knocking him out and nearly killing him. Dunk recovers later and goes to give the Underleaf his armor and horse as forfeit. Since Dunk can't ransom it back he is in a glum mood. Dunk talks to Underleaf and Underleaf informs Dunk that someone bribed him to try and kill Dunk in the final tilt, Underleaf states that if they paid more he might have completed the task, but tells Dunk he has an enemy. Before the jousting continues word spreads through the castle that the dragon egg is missing and the blame is placed on Ser Glendon Ball, who is imprisoned by Peake. Dunk notices that Egg is missing and sets out to find his squire. Whilst searching he is almost killed by Alyn Cockshaw who tells Dunk he bribed Underleaf to kill Dunk because he was jealous of John the Fiddler's obsession with Dunk and that dream Dunk manages to defeat him by throwing him down a well, though he takes a wound in return from Cockshaw's knife. Maynard Plumm comes to Duncan's aid and tells him where to find his squire. Dunk finds Egg in the sept with the cowering Lord Butterwell, who on discovering Egg's true identity is terrified for his life. Egg told Ambrose (falsely) that he and Dunk were spies sent to investigate the tournament and that his father, Prince Maekar, is on the way with an army. Lord Ambrose's good son (son-in-law) Black Tom Heddle shows up and tries to harm Egg but is slain by Dunk. Dunk tells Egg to flee with Ambrose. To buy time for Egg's escape Dunk confronts Daemon II Blackfyre, accusing Gormon Peake of falsely charging Ball with the theft of the dragon egg.

[goodqueenaly]

At the same time, there is a sense of gray area when it comes to the adoption or extension of bastard surnames. It is unclear, for example, whether Franklyn Flowers’ reported father actually acknowledged his son; we only know that one of the Fossoways, according to Franklyn, raped Franklyn’s mother while she was a servant on the estate. Franklyn has certain taken to calling himself “Flowers” in testament to this cruel paternal heritage, though his cheerful loathing of his biological father’s family suggests that his use of “Flowers” stems (no pun intended) less from a desire to associate with House Fossoway and more from a basic acknowledgment of his ancestry (and, perhaps, an explanation as to why he’ll join any mission which lets him “kill some Fossoways”).

On the flip side, as I discussed before, young Glendon in “The Mystery Knight” vehemently rejects his designation at the Whitewalls tourney as “Glendon Flowers”. Objectively, there appears to be no reason why Glendon so firmly believes that he is Quentyn Ball’s legitimate, though posthumous, son, and Glendon himself never explains how he came to this conclusion. While the controversy in the story seems to relate to whether or not Glendon could be Fireball’s son at all - Uthor Underleaf, Alyn Cockshaw, Mortimer Boggs, Lord Costayne, and Butterwell’s steward all dismiss the possibility that Glendon has any biological relationship to the late Ser Quentyn - Glendon himself focuses narrowly on claiming Ball legitimacy despite having no apparent evidence for doing so.

For a noble bastard to receive a surname (i.e. Hill) does the identity of the noble parent/s have to be known? Or can a lord say “trust me, I know the father/mother” and leave it at that

It requires that the noble parent (usually the father) acknowledges the child as theirs.

So for example, Edric Storm is Edric Storm because Robert Baratheon acknowledged him as his son, and Mya Stone is Mya Stone because Jon Arryn insisted that Robert do the right thing, but Bella isn't Bella Rivers, and Gendry isn't Gendry Waters, and so on.