House Frey, root and branch — 42 names across 5 generations, seated at The Twins in The Riverlands. Each band below is a single generation, eldest first; the mono line beneath a name gives its parents, so the descent reads down the page. Dates follow the maesters, and where the songs outrun the records the chronicle hedges the legend as legend.
Styled Lord of the Crossing
Raised a single wooden tower over the narrowest crossing of the Green Fork and began charging every cart, pilgrim, and army that wished to use it. Six centuries and two stone towers later, the toll has never once gone uncollected — the single most reliable fact in this family's entire history.
Styled Lord of the Crossing
Wed Perra Royce; Cyrenna Swann; Amarei Crakehall; Alyssa Blackwood; Sarya Whent; Bethany Rosby; Annara Farring; Joyeuse Erenford
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.
Styled Lady Frey (first)
Walder's first wife, of the Runestone Royces, and mother of Stevron, Emmon, Aenys, and Perriane — the eldest and, by most later comparisons, the least troublesome quarter of his brood.
Styled Lady Frey (second)
Second wife, of House Swann of the stormlands, and mother to Jared and a son who took the septon's robes rather than a Frey wife of his own — one of very few of Walder's sons to opt out of the family trade.
Styled Lady Frey (third)
Third wife, and mother of seven, including Hosteen, Merrett, Geremy, Raymund, and Symond — a litter large enough that this maester suspects Walder chose his wives thereafter chiefly for stamina.
Styled Lady Frey (fourth)
Fourth wife, of the riverlands' own Blackwoods, and mother of Lothar, Jammos, Whalen, and two daughters — proof that even a Bracken's bitterest rivals were not above marrying into the Twins when the toll made it worthwhile.
Styled Lady Frey (fifth)
Fifth wife, of the fading House Whent of Harrenhal, and the one marriage in eight that gave Walder no living child at all — a fact he is not recorded to have let her forget while she lived.
Styled Lady Frey (sixth)
Sixth wife, and mother of Perwyn, Benfrey, Willamen, Olyvar, and Roslin — five children who would go on to sit rather close to the center of the Twins' most infamous wedding, whether by luck, blood, or their father's design.
Styled Lady Frey (seventh)
Seventh wife, mother of six, including Elmar — betrothed at eight years old to Arya Stark, and unbetrothed again the moment the Twins broke faith with the rest of her family — and Shirei, the youngest of Walder's acknowledged daughters.
Styled Lady Frey (eighth, and present)
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.
Styled heir to the Twins
Parents Walder Frey · Perra Royce
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.
Wed Genna Lannister
Parents Walder Frey · Perra Royce
Second son, wed to a Lannister of Casterly Rock — a match that gave the Twins a standing invitation to Lannister councils and gave Emmon, by his own wife's frequent account, very little say in his own household.
Parents Walder Frey · Perra Royce
Third son of the first marriage, sent about his father's business more than once and remembered chiefly for doing it without complaint — a rarer trait in this family than competence.
Wed Ser Leslyn Haigh
Parents Walder Frey · Perra Royce
Perra Royce's only daughter, married off to a household knight — a modest match by Frey standards, which is to say her father still expected something for it.
Parents Walder Frey · Cyrenna Swann
Cyrenna Swann's son, one of the more forgettable branches of a family that produces forgettable branches the way other houses produce wheat.
Parents Walder Frey · Amarei Crakehall
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.
Wed Mariya Darry
Parents Walder Frey · Amarei Crakehall
Amarei's son, remembered less for anything he did himself than for two of the children he begot: a son sent to Winterfell as a ward, and a daughter who married north for reasons that had nothing to do with affection.
Parents Walder Frey · Amarei Crakehall
Another of Amarei's sons, of whom the surviving record preserves a name and declines the rest — the fate, this maester notes wearily, of roughly half this family.
Parents Walder Frey · Amarei Crakehall
Amarei's son; the ledgers name him among the living and the histories otherwise ignore him, which by Frey standards counts as a quiet life well spent.
Parents Walder Frey · Amarei Crakehall
Said to have a head for coin sharper than most of his brothers' heads for anything at all — the Twins' toll being, after all, the one Frey enterprise every single one of them can agree is worth minding.
Styled steward of the Twins
Parents Walder Frey · Alyssa Blackwood
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.
Wed Sallei Paege
Parents Walder Frey · Alyssa Blackwood
Alyssa Blackwood's son, wed to a Paege of the westerlands, and father to one of the two cousins the smallfolk of Winterfell would come to know, confusingly, as a Walder.
Parents Walder Frey · Alyssa Blackwood
Another Blackwood son of whom this Citadel's file holds a name, a parentage, and nothing whatsoever besides.
Parents Walder Frey · Amarei Crakehall
One more of Amarei's sons, distinguished from his brothers chiefly by the record's equal indifference to all of them.
Parents Walder Frey · Bethany Rosby
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.
Parents Walder Frey · Bethany Rosby
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.
Parents Walder Frey · Bethany Rosby
Bethany's son, sent to the Citadel rather than a battlefield or a bridal bed — a rarer choice in this family than either.
Styled squire to Robb Stark
Parents Walder Frey · Bethany Rosby
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.
Styled Lady Tully
Wed Edmure Tully
Parents Walder Frey · Bethany Rosby
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.
Parents Walder Frey · Annara Farring
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.
Parents Walder Frey · Annara Farring
Annara's daughter and, by most countings, the youngest of Walder's acknowledged children still a child herself — a reminder that this lord fathered new sons and daughters well into an age most men spend counting their grandchildren instead.
Parents Walder Frey · Alyssa Blackwood
Called Tenth for want of a better distinguishing mark among so many daughters — the family having apparently exhausted its patience for descriptive bynames well before it exhausted its patience for children.
Styled heir to the Twins
Parents Stevron Frey
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.
Styled heir to the Twins
Parents Ryman Frey
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.
Parents Ryman Frey
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.
Wed Jeyne Darry
Parents Emmon Frey
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.
Parents Emmon Frey
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.
Parents Jammos Frey
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.
Parents Merrett Frey
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.
Styled Lady Bolton
Wed Roose Bolton
Parents Merrett Frey
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.
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.
Eldest of Lord Walder's acknowledged natural children and, despite the accident of birth, one of the more capable swords the Twins can field — a fact the household is not permitted to forget carries no claim on the seat regardless.
Martyn, Ryger, Ronel, Jeyne, and Mellara Rivers among them — natural children the Twins acknowledge without troubling to elevate, a bastard household nearly large enough to be a second, unofficial House Frey.
Where the records quarrel, contradict, or fall silent, this chronicle sets the arguments down rather than settling for you what the texts leave open.
How many children Lord Walder Frey has actually fathered: the man himself claims some seven-and-twenty trueborn and an uncounted scatter of Rivers besides, the maesters who have tried to tally the household roll have stopped agreeing on the number past thirty, and this chronicle — having named the core forty or so the histories bother to individually record — declines to referee the rest.
Whether House Frey's words, 'We Stand Together,' were ever actually spoken within the family or only assigned to it afterward: no surviving letter or record from the Twins itself uses the phrase, and given the family's own history at the Red Wedding, more than one maester has noted the irony would be considerable either way.
Which of the two Walders — Black Walder Frey, trueborn grandson of Stevron, or Walder Rivers, the Bastard, eldest of Lord Walder's natural sons — answers more readily to the name at the Twins: both do, regularly, and to the crossing's considerable daily confusion.
Whether Roslin Frey knew of her father's plans for her own wedding feast in advance: her husband Edmure Tully believes she did and forgave her nothing for it; this chronicle notes only that no one has produced her own account of the matter, and is unlikely to.
This tree gathers the current documented Frey corpus from the novels and their histories — kings and lords, daughters and bastards, and cadet offshoots. The maesters count only what the texts preserve; where a name survives without its deeds, the chronicle says as much rather than inventing the rest.
Each band down the page is one generation, eldest first. Beneath a name, the mono line names that person's parents, so descent reads from the top down. Dashed cards mark bastards and baseborn lines; cards behind the veil hold fates from the present tale, revealed only if you choose to unveil them.
House Frey holds The Twins. The tree opens with the earliest forebears the records name — legendary where the singers outrun the maesters, firmer once true dates begin — and this chronicle marks the myths as myths, never dressing a song up as a certainty.
A good many. Contested parentage, missing generations, bynames left unexplained, and legends the singers embroider all appear under 'What the maesters dispute' at the foot of this page, where the arguments are set down without pretending to close what the books leave open.