Robb Stark inherited Winterfell at an age when most highborn sons are still squiring for someone else, and inherited a war within the same season, when his father's arrest in King's Landing left the North leaderless. He proved a startlingly capable field commander for a boy barely into manhood, winning every battle he fought and earning, from bannermen who might easily have humored a boy-lord instead, a crown of his own making: King in the North. That the crown came at the price of an oath he could not keep — a betrothal traded away for love, or honor, or simple youth — is a cost the songs remember more kindly than the men he broke faith with. A maester records that undefeated in the field is a title the Twins made sure would outlast him.
House Stark
Robb Stark
the Young Wolf
- Life
- no fixed AC year given; fourteen years old at the story's opening by internal reckoning
- House
- Stark
The King in the North's war ended before the crown he was given could be secured.
The arc of Robb Stark
This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
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.
In the timeline
SourcesACOK · CatelynASOS · CatelynTWOIAF · The War of the Five Kings
Is Robb Stark alive?
No — the King in the North's war ended before the crown he was given could be secured; the chronicle treats the particulars, and their aftermath, with care.
Who is Robb Stark?
Eddard Stark's eldest son and heir, who was crowned King in the North by bannermen loyal enough to follow a fifteen-year-old into a war against the Iron Throne.