The family tree of House Lannister

1. Generation 1

   The Age of Heroes and the Kings of the Rock

   Lannthe Clever

   Age of Heroes, if the songs are true

   Styled Founder of the line, in song

   The songs say he winkled the Casterlys out of their Rock armed with nothing but wit and hair like beaten gold; the ledgers say nothing at all, which is how legends prefer it.

   Loreon Lannisterthe Lion

   dawn of days, dates lost to song

   Styled King of the Rock

   Wed a daughter of House Reyne of Castamere

   First of Lann's line the histories will call King of the Rock. He wed a daughter of House Reyne, entering Castamere in the books as a vassal rather than a rival, and spent twenty years grinding down the Hooded King of the Banefort — the Rock has always kept long accounts.

   Tommen Lannisterthe Second

   lost beyond the Smoking Sea, generations before the Conquest

   Styled King of the Rock

   Sailed for ruined Valyria to fill his holds with dragonlords' gold and never sent so much as a letter home. The Valyrian steel sword Brightroar went with him — a loss his house has mourned rather longer than the king.

   Loren Lannisterthe Last

   fl. Aegon's Conquest

   Styled Last King of the Rock, first Lord of Casterly Rock

   Rode onto the Field of Fire a king and off it a smaller and better-instructed man. He knelt; Aegon let him keep the Rock, if not the crown, and the family has counted it a fair trade ever since.

2. Generation 2

   Lords Under the Dragons

   Lyman Lannister

   fl. c. 40s AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock

   Gave shelter to Queen Rhaena and her daughters and told King Maegor no — a course requiring either great courage or a very thick castle. He possessed both.

   Tymond Lannister

   fl. 101 AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock

   Came to the Great Council of 101 AC with a retinue fit for a coronation, though he had but one vote to cast. The Rock has never traveled light.

   Jason Lannister

   d. 130 AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock

   Wed Johanna of House Westerling

   Declared for King Aegon II with commendable speed and died of it at the crossing of the Red Fork in 130 AC, leaving the west to his widow's abler keeping.

   Tyland Lannister

   d. 133 AC

   Styled Master of Ships, Master of Coin, Hand of the King

   Twin to Lord Jason, he hid the crown's treasure so well that Rhaenyra's questioners ruined his face and health without ever finding the gold. He died Hand of the King, hooded, and undefeated in arithmetic.

   Johanna Lannisternée Westerling

   fl. the Dance and the regency of Aegon III

   Styled Lady of Casterly Rock, regent for her son

   Wed Jason Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock

   Held the Rock while the Red Kraken burned Lannisport, then repaid the debt in kind: her hired swords reaped the Iron Islands, and a salt son of Dalton Greyjoy ended his days as her son's gelded fool.

   Loreon Lannister

   fl. 130s AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock

   Parents Jason Lannister · Johanna Lannister

   Came to his seat a boy under his mother's regency. The west was governed exceedingly well in those years, which tells the careful reader where the governing was done.

3. Generation 3

   The House of the Grey Lion

   Damon Lannisterthe Grey Lion

   d. 210 AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock

   Wed Cerissa of House Brax

   Presided over a tidy and largely unremarkable lordship before the Great Spring Sickness carried him off in 210 AC — proof that even lions are mortal to small things.

   Tybolt Lannister

   d. 212 AC

   Styled Ser; Lord of Casterly Rock

   Parents Damon Lannister

   A champion of the great tourney at Ashford Meadow, and dead under a cloud scarcely three years later, of causes the Rock has never much cared to discuss.

   Cerelle Lannister

   d. c. 213 AC, a child

   Styled Lady of Casterly Rock

   Parents Tybolt Lannister

   Lady of Casterly Rock at three years of age and dead within the year. Her uncle grieved efficiently, and inherited.

   Gerold Lannisterthe Golden

   d. 244 AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock, sometime regent

   Wed m. (1) Alysanne of House Farman, no issue; (2) Rohanne Webber, Lady of Coldmoat

   Parents Damon Lannister

   Ruled long and shrewdly and left the Rock's coffers fatter than he found them. The whispers that he cleared his own path to the lordship were never proven, which he would doubtless have entered under thrift.

4. Generation 4

   The Sons of Gerold

   Tywald Lannister

   d. 233 AC

   Styled Squire to Lord Robert Reyne

   Parents Gerold Lannister

   Heir to the Rock and betrothed to Ellyn Reyne, he was slain at the Storming of Starpike in the Peake Uprising. His betrothed, undeterred, simply moved one twin down the ladder.

   Tion Lannister

   d. 236 AC

   Styled Heir to Casterly Rock

   Wed Ellyn of House Reyne

   Parents Gerold Lannister

   Set aside his own betrothal to wed his dead twin's, then fell in the Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion — leaving Ellyn Reyne a widow with no issue and undiminished ambitions.

   Tytos Lannisterthe Laughing Lion

   c. 220 – 267 AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock

   Wed Jeyne of House Marbrand

   Parents Gerold Lannister

   A kind man in a seat that punishes kindness: he laughed when they mocked him, forgave his debtors, and lent his authority out at no interest until his bannermen stopped repaying it. He died on the stair to his mistress's chamber, his heart giving out before his good humor did.

   Jason Lannister

   b. c. 229 AC

   Styled Ser

   Wed m. (1) Alys of House Stackspear, died in childbed; (2) Marla of House Prester

   Parents Gerold Lannister

   The youngest son, born scarce a year before his mother vanished, and wed twice at his family's arranging. The fuller lineages make him father to Joanna and Stafford — a point the novels neither confirm nor trouble to deny.

5. Generation 5

   The Lions of Tytos

   Tywin Lannisterthe Old Lion

   242 – 300 AC

   Styled Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, thrice Hand of the King

   Wed Joanna Lannister, his cousin

   Parents Tytos Lannister

   Restored the Rock's credit at Castamere and Tarbeck Hall and the realm's at King's Landing, and was twenty years the true government of Westeros. He died on a privy with his son's crossbow bolt in his bowels — a ledger balanced, in the end, in the crudest coin.

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   Joanna Lannister

   d. 273 AC

   Styled Lady of Casterly Rock

   Wed Tywin Lannister, her cousin

   Parents Jason Lannister

   Tywin's cousin and the one creature in the Seven Kingdoms said to rule him. She died in 273 AC bringing forth the son her lord husband never forgave for the exchange.

   Kevan Lannister

   244 – 300 AC

   Styled Ser; Lord Regent and Protector of the Realm

   Wed Dorna of House Swyft

   Parents Tytos Lannister

   A lifetime spent as his brother's right hand, and unexpectedly capable the moment he became the head. A crossbow bolt in Maegor's Holdfast ended the experiment within the year, to the realm's considerable cost.

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   Genna Lannister

   b. c. 245 AC

   Styled Lady, by marriage, of House Frey

   Wed Emmon Frey, second son of Lord Walder

   Parents Tytos Lannister

   Promised to Emmon Frey at seven — and the only soul in the hall, at seven, to tell Lord Tytos plainly that the match was beneath them. The marriage improved neither party, though it multiplied.

   Tygett Lannister

   c. 250 – 283 AC

   Styled Ser

   Wed Darlessa of House Marbrand

   Parents Tytos Lannister

   Forever second at swords to a brother whom time had unfairly seeded ahead of him; he found what peace he found in the yard, and a pox found him in 283 AC.

   Gerion Lannister

   b. c. 255 AC, lost c. 292 AC

   Styled Ser

   Parents Tytos Lannister

   The laughing youngest, who sailed the Laughing Lion east in 292 AC to fetch Brightroar home from Valyria. Valyria, as is its custom, declined to issue a receipt.

   Stafford Lannister

   d. 299 AC

   Styled Ser

   Wed Myranda of House Lefford

   Parents Jason Lannister

   Brother to Joanna, and thus uncle to the twins by blood and marriage both. He raised a green host for his nephew's war and lost it at Oxcross before it was properly awake.

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6. Generation 6

   The Main Line in the Age of the Novels

   Cersei Lannister

   b. 266 AC

   Styled Queen of the Seven Kingdoms; Queen Regent

   Wed King Robert I Baratheon

   Parents Tywin Lannister · Joanna Lannister

   Queen to Robert and regent to two sons in turn, she trusted her own cunning somewhat further than it would carry her. The Faith has since obliged her to walk home and reconsider; the realm kept the receipts.

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   Jaime Lannisterthe Kingslayer

   b. 266 AC

   Styled Ser; Lord Commander of the Kingsguard

   Parents Tywin Lannister · Joanna Lannister

   The youngest knight ever sworn to the white, and the only one to open the throat of the king he guarded. The White Book has since gained pages, and he has lost the golden hand that might have written them.

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   Tyrion Lannisterthe Imp

   b. 273 AC

   Styled Sometime Hand of the King and Master of Coin

   Wed m. (1) Tysha, a crofter's daughter, annulled; (2) Sansa Stark, unconsummated

   Parents Tywin Lannister · Joanna Lannister

   Born at his mother's cost and reared at his father's contempt, he governed King's Landing better than anyone thanked him for. Attainted kingslayer and kinslayer both, he was last accounted east of the narrow sea, where his debts have no difficulty following.

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   Lancel Lannister

   b. c. 282 AC

   Styled Ser; briefly Lord of Darry

   Wed Amerei of House Frey

   Parents Kevan Lannister

   Squire to a king whose wineskin he kept too well filled, husband to Gatehouse Ami for rather less than a year, and now a sworn brother of the Warrior's Sons, having discovered debts no gold discharges.

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   Willem Lannister

   d. 299 AC

   Styled Squire

   Parents Kevan Lannister

   Taken captive in the Whispering Wood and murdered in his cell at Riverrun by men wanting vengeance for Karstark sons. The war did not pause to note it.

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   Martyn Lannister

   Styled Squire

   Parents Kevan Lannister

   Willem's twin, likewise taken and more fortunately exchanged. He carries his ransom's worth of luck, and one hopes he spends it slowly.

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   Janei Lannister

   b. c. 297 AC

   Parents Kevan Lannister

   The last entry in Ser Kevan's ledger, a babe with no history yet worth hedging.

   Tyrek LannisterWet Nurse

   b. c. 286 AC, missing since 299 AC

   Styled Squire

   Wed Ermesande, Lady Hayford, wed while yet at the breast

   Parents Tygett Lannister

   Wed to the infant Lady Hayford — the Rock has never scorned an inheritance, whatever its age — and vanished in the bread riots of King's Landing. Lord Commander Jaime still asks after him, which is more than most do.

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   Cleos Frey

   d. 299 AC

   Styled Ser, of House Frey

   Wed Jeyne of House Darry

   Parents Genna Lannister

   Genna's eldest, half Frey by blood and wholly unlucky by temperament. He rode as an envoy under peace banners and was killed by outlaws for his trouble.

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   Lyonel Frey

   Styled Ser, of House Frey

   Wed Melesa of House Crakehall

   Parents Genna Lannister

   Second of Genna's sons, knighted and wed to a Crakehall, and otherwise little noted. The family's opinion of the Frey half of her brood is best left in the margins.

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   Tion Frey

   d. 299 AC

   Styled Squire, of House Frey

   Parents Genna Lannister

   A squire murdered at Riverrun beside his cousin Willem, in requital for the Karstark dead. Blood answers blood, the smallfolk say, and rarely the right blood.

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   Walder FreyRed Walder

   Styled Page at Casterly Rock, of House Frey

   Parents Genna Lannister

   The youngest of Genna's sons, a page at the Rock. His lady mother accounts him more lion than his brothers, which she does not entirely intend as praise.

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   Daven Lannister

   Styled Ser; Warden of the West

   Parents Stafford Lannister

   Made Warden of the West after his father fell at Oxcross, and vowed not to cut his hair until the Young Wolf was dead — a vow the Freys discharged for him, to his evident distaste. He besieges Riverrun and is promised a Frey bride, sight unseen.

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   Cerenna Lannister

   Parents Stafford Lannister

   Daughter of Ser Stafford, kept at the Rock; the chronicles have thus far required little of her, which in this family is a species of good fortune.

   Myrielle Lannister

   Parents Stafford Lannister

   Cerenna's sister, likewise of the Rock's household, and likewise blessedly under-documented.

7. Generation 7

   The Young Lions

   Joffrey Baratheon

   286 – 300 AC

   Styled King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men

   Wed Margaery of House Tyrell, wed 300 AC

   Parents Cersei Lannister · Jaime Lannister

   Recorded in the registry as King Robert's firstborn; the novels' testimony — gold of hair where Baratheon seed runs black — assigns him instead to the queen's twin. He was crowned at twelve and poisoned at his own wedding feast, and the realm's grief was decently brief.

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   Myrcella Baratheon

   b. 290 AC

   Styled Princess

   Parents Cersei Lannister · Jaime Lannister

   Of the same true parentage as her brothers, and by common assent the best of them. Shipped to Dorne as betrothed to Prince Trystane and hostage in all but name, she has since paid an ear for Dorne's hospitality.

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   Tommen Baratheon

   b. 291 AC

   Styled King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men

   Wed Margaery of House Tyrell

   Parents Cersei Lannister · Jaime Lannister

   A gentle boy king fond of kittens and of stamping documents with his seal, ruled in practice by whoever spoke to him last. The maesters wish him a long reign, with limited confidence.

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   Tywin FreyTy

   Styled Of House Frey

   Parents Cleos Frey

   Ser Cleos's elder boy, named for the Old Lion in the family's customary spirit of investment; heir now to whatever his father's luck has left him.

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   Willem Frey

   Styled Squire, of House Frey

   Parents Cleos Frey

   Cleos's younger son, a squire at Ashford, prudently far from every recent family gathering.

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Dashed cards mark bastards and baseborn lines. Names shaded behind the veil belong to the present tale; unveil them only if you do not fear to know.

Younger sons and daughters whose blood struck out on its own — some founding houses of their own name, some withered to a line in the annals, some disputed to this day.

• Joy Hill

  b. c. 290 AC

  Parents Gerion Lannister

  Gerion's natural daughter, a sweet child kept at the Rock while her father's ship does not return. Lately weighed out as a bride for a Frey of the Crossing — love being a fungible commodity in wartime.

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Where the records quarrel, contradict, or fall silent, this chronicle sets the arguments down rather than settling for you what the texts leave open.

1. No chronicle names the father of Lord Jason and Ser Tyland, the twins of the Dance; Lord Tymond held the Rock a generation before them, and the Citadel joins the two entries with a dotted line and a shrug.

2. The novels never name the father of Joanna and Stafford; the fuller lineage from the author's own hand (semi-canon) gives them to Ser Jason, Gerold's youngest son, by Marla Prester. The Citadel records it in pencil.

3. Lady Rohanne Webber, mother of all four of Lord Gerold's sons, vanished in 230 AC within a year of Jason's birth. Flight, murder, and stranger explanations each have their partisans, and none of them proof.

4. Ser Tybolt and his infant daughter Cerelle died within a year of one another, leaving the Rock to Gerold the Golden. Nothing was ever proven — which, the maesters note, is not the same as nothing having happened.

5. House Reyne of Castamere: Ellyn Reyne was betrothed to one Lannister heir and wed to the next, yet left issue by neither; when Ser Tywin drowned Castamere in 261 AC no Reyne claim survived to argue the point, though songs, unlike ledgers, are fond of survivors.

6. The paternity of Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen: the royal registry says Baratheon, the hair says Lannister, and the realm went to war over the discrepancy (spoiler-shielded above).

7. When precisely King Tommen II sailed Brightroar into the Smoking Sea is variously reckoned; all accounts agree only that neither king nor sword returned.

8. Houses Lannett, Lanny, and Lantell of Lannisport all claim descent from Lann the Clever's natural children — as, after a cup or three, does half of Lannisport.