House Baratheon of Storm's End is one of the Great Houses of Westeros, and is the principal house in the Stormlands. Its seat, Storm's End, is an ancient castle raised by the Storm Kings. The Baratheon sigil is a crowned black stag on a field of gold. Members of the family tend to be large, with black hair and blue eyes. They are known for their mercurial tempers, and their words are Ours is the Fury.
HistoryBaratheon is the youngest of the original great houses, tracing its descent from Orys Baratheon, one of Aegon I's fiercest generals, and rumored to be his bastard brother. Through the female line, the Baratheons are descended from the Storm Kings, as Orys slew Argilac the Arrogant, last of the Storm Kings, and married his daughter Argella Durrendon. Orys adopted the sigil and words of his wife's ancestral line.[2]The line of the Storm Kings dates back to the Age of Heroes when their kingdom was founded by King Durran I "Godsgrief", a legendary hero. During the Blackfyre Rebellion, the Baratheons remained loyal to the Targaryen Dynasty, providing much of the force commanded by PrinceBaelor Breakspear at the decisive Battle of the Redgrass Field. Princess Rhaelle Targaryen, daughter of Aegon V, married into the House and birthed Lord Steffon Baratheon, continuing the close ties between the dragon and the stag. The rebellion that usurped the Targaryens, however, was started on behalf of Steffon's son Lord Robert Baratheon and his foster-brother, Eddard Stark. The Baratheons and their bannermen were instrumental in the conflict, along with Houses Arryn, Stark, and Tully, and, eventually, House Lannister. The Battle of Summerhall and Siege of Storm's End were fixtures of the Stormlands theater. After the war, the house spawned two cadet branches: one seated on the Iron Throneunder King Robert, and another on the Isle of Dragonstone headed by Lord Stannis. During the Greyjoy Rebellion against Robert's rule, the combined Baratheon fleet defeated the Iron Fleet in the Battle of Fair Isle, commanded by Master of Ships Stannis. Stannis later subduedGreat Wyk in his brother's name, presumably commanding the stormlords' hosts to do so. |
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Recent EventsWith Robert and Stannis holding their own titles, the young Renly Baratheon became Lord of Storm's End. Some time after he achieved majority, he was appointed to Robert's small council as Master of Laws. As Robert lay dying from a boar's tusk, Renly asked Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, to support him in a bid for the throne. Lord Stark refused, saying that if Cersei's children were bastards born of incest, then it was Stannis who should be king. Renly rode out of King's Landing. Despite Stannis's better claim, Renly was able to rally the Stormlands to his cause, as well as House Tyrell. When King Renly was killed beneath the walls of Storm's End as the brothers' hosts prepared to clash during the War of the Five Kings, he left no heirs, but his widow Margaery Tyrell later married his "nephew" Joffrey I. Most of the houses sworn to Storm's End went over first to Stannis, then to Joffrey after the Battle of the Blackwater. After Joffrey's death, the current head of the house is the king on the Iron Throne, Tommen I - a title disputed by King Stannis. The current garrison at Storm's End is Stannis's last force in the south. |
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