Robb Stark's northern host against a Lannister garrison force under Ser Stafford Lannister
Outcome
Ser Stafford Lannister was killed and his army destroyed, leaving the Westerlands open to Stark raiding for the remainder of the campaign season.
The Young Wolf carried the war into the Lannisters' own homeland and broke the last army standing between him and Casterly Rock's undefended lands.
Commanders
Robb Stark
Ser Stafford Lannister
What happened
Newly acclaimed a king by his own lords, Robb Stark carried the war somewhere no southern army expected a northern host to go: into the Westerlands itself, against whatever force Casterly Rock could still field with its main strength committed elsewhere.
How that force fared, and what it cost the Lannisters to learn their own homeland was no longer safe, the chronicle leaves for readers further along in the tale.
The Battle of Oxcross in the novels
This carries how the battle plays out in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
Fresh from his victories outside Riverrun and newly proclaimed King in the North, Robb Stark did not stop to consolidate; he led his host west into the Westerlands itself, a stroke of daring no southern lord expected from a northern boy still shy of his sixteenth nameday. Ser Stafford Lannister, Lord Tywin's cousin and the closest thing Casterly Rock had left to a field commander with the Lord of Casterly Rock's own army committed elsewhere, gathered what troops he could — many of them green levies with more enthusiasm than training — to meet him at Oxcross.
It was not a contest. Robb's veterans, blooded already at the Whispering Wood and moving with the confidence of men who had already beaten Lannister arms once, tore through Stafford's hastily assembled force. Stafford Lannister himself was killed in the field, one of the more senior Lannister commanders to die in the war's opening year.
With Stafford's army gone, the Westerlands lay open behind him, and Robb's lords spent the following weeks doing to Lannister lands what Lannister soldiers had already done to the riverlands — burning, raiding, and reminding Casterly Rock that its home ground was no longer safe simply because it bore the lion's name.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
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What was The Battle of Oxcross?
The Young Wolf carried the war into the Lannisters' own homeland and broke the last army standing between him and Casterly Rock's undefended lands.
Is The Battle of Oxcross from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.