House Darry

Jonothor Darry

Life: 283 AC, at the Battle of the Trident
House: House Darry of the riverlands; Kingsguard sworn to Aerys II

A knight of the Kingsguard killed defending Prince Rhaegar at the Battle of the Trident, at the rebellion's decisive and final field engagement.

Of the seven men who wore the white cloak in the last years of Aerys the Second's reign, Jonothor Darry is among the two or three the published chronicle troubles to describe least — no famous duel, no dying quip preserved in another man's dream, only a name on the roll of Kingsguard who rode to war and the fact of his death recorded by those who outlived him. What the text does preserve is secondhand and brief: Ser Barristan Selmy, recalling the rebellion's end decades later, numbers Jonothor among the good men he served beside and lost on the same terrible day, a small epitaph but not a nothing one, coming from a knight as sparing with praise as Selmy.

The arc of Jonothor Darry

This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.

Darry died beside Lewyn Martell in the ruin of the crown's host at the Trident, guarding Rhaegar Targaryen in a battle the prince did not survive either — leaving, of Aerys's seven Kingsguard, only Barristan Selmy and Jaime Lannister to see the rebellion's end alive, and three more still standing guard at a tower in Dorne who would not survive the war's aftermath by many days themselves.

Where the books leave Jonothor Darry: Jonothor Darry died in the same collapse of the crown's host that killed Rhaegar Targaryen and Lewyn Martell, one of the least individually recorded of Aerys's seven Kingsguard, remembered by the histories chiefly for the company he kept and the battle he did not survive.

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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SourcesAGOT · EddardADWD · The Discarded KnightTWOIAF · Robert's Rebellion

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How did Jonothor Darry die?

He was killed at the Battle of the Trident, fighting in Prince Rhaegar's host — the same battle that killed the prince himself and Ser Lewyn Martell.

What house did Jonothor Darry belong to?

House Darry of the riverlands, a minor house that would later host Tyrion Lannister at its seat early in A Game of Thrones — a coincidence of geography rather than any recorded family connection to Jonothor himself.