House Stark, root and branch — 87 names across 11 generations, seated at Winterfell in The North. 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 King of Winter (legendary)
Credited with raising Winterfell, the Wall, and — when the singers are deep in their cups — Storm's End and the Hightower besides. A maester observes that one man building all of it would have needed several lifetimes and remarkably patient masons.
Styled King of Winter (legendary)
Joined with Joramun, King-Beyond-the-Wall, to cast down the Night's King and scour his name from every record — a thoroughness the Citadel can only admire, since it makes verifying the tale impossible.
Styled King of Winter
Drove sea raiders from the mouth of the White Knife and raised the Wolf's Den to keep them from returning. The Den still stands; the raiders, pointedly, do not.
Styled King of Winter
Parents Jon Stark
Son of Jon; conquered the Neck, defeated the last Marsh King, and wed that king's daughter — annexation by marriage being cheaper than annexation by siege.
Styled King of Winter
Broke Argos Sevenstar's Andal host at the Weeping Water, then crossed the narrow sea with the dead man lashed to his prow, burned a score of Andal villages, and came home to line his own coasts with heads on spikes, by way of notice to the next fleet. Fought, by every account, everyone available.
Styled King of Winter
Dreamed of what lay west of the Sunset Sea and sailed to find out. The sea declined to return an answer, or the king.
Styled King of Winter
Parents Brandon Stark
Put the torch to his father's shipyards in grief, which is why the Kings of Winter thereafter kept no fleet worth the name. Grief makes poor naval policy.
Styled King of Winter
Won Bear Island from the ironborn in a wrestling match, if the tale is true, and granted it to the Mormonts — proof that the North occasionally settles matters without a single decapitation.
Styled King of Winter
Said to have ruled near a hundred years, long enough for his descendants to fall to quarreling before the funeral. Slavers took the Wolf's Den in his dotage.
Styled King of Winter
Retook the Wolf's Den in the dead of winter and gave the slavers to their former merchandise, who hanged their entrails in the heart tree's branches. The old gods, one gathers, were not displeased.
Styled King of Winter
The Watch's own annals place rangers fighting giants and trading with the children of the forest in his reign — proof that the strangest entries in the archive are sometimes the best attested.
Styled King of Winter
Burned the longships of the Skagosi and penned the stoneborn on their island. That the maesters must number the Brandons like Aegons says everything about the Stark imagination for names.
Styled King of Winter
Starved out the Dreadfort in a siege that ran two full years — patience being the deadliest weapon ever raised against a Bolton.
Styled King of Winter
His statue and his byname survive in the crypts of Winterfell; what a king must do to be styled Moon King, no surviving record deigns to say.
Styled King of Winter
The crypts preserve his statue and his sentence in equal measure: whatever he did, the North judged 'the Bad' summary enough, and filed the particulars nowhere.
Styled King of Winter
A crowned name among the stone kings of the crypt; his deeds went where unwritten deeds go.
Styled King of Winter
Seated in stone near Jorah; whether he ruled before that king or after, not even the order of the statues will swear to.
Styled King of Winter
Which marriage earned a King of Winter that byname, the records are too discreet — or too embarrassed — to preserve.
Styled King of Winter
A statue, an iron sword across stone knees, and a name: the Citadel's file on Eyron ends where it begins.
Styled King of Winter
Paired forever in the crypt with his Bitter namesake, as if the masons intended a lesson on temperament and left the rest to the visitor.
Styled King of Winter
The other Benjen. Which king came first, or what soured the second, the stones decline to say.
Styled King of Winter
A hopeful style in a family sworn to winter; his reign left the byname behind and little else.
Styled Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
Chosen Lord Commander at ten years of age and served for sixty — a career that began before most boys are trusted with a real sword and outlasted several kings.
Styled Last King of Winter; first Lord of Winterfell
Marched south against Aegon's dragons, counted the ashes of the Field of Fire, and bent the knee at the Trident. The North has never quite decided whether to be ashamed of him or alive because of him.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Old and gout-ridden, he made the long ride south for Jaehaerys's Golden Wedding in 49 AC and died soon after coming home. How his line descends from Torrhen's the records decline to say.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Parents Brandon Stark
Took Ice north to behead the Night's Watch mutineers of 50 AC, then pursued the survivors into the haunted forest, where he slew two giants before they returned the favor. The Watch carried him home in pieces.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed a lady of House Mormont
Parents Brandon Stark
Succeeded his brother Walton and hosted Queen Alysanne in 58 AC — the king came north only later, to a colder welcome — grumbling famously about the cost of feeding a royal progress. The queen found him less dour than advertised; the ledgers found him exactly as dour as advertised. Both his sons died before him.
Parents Alaric Stark
Alaric's daughter, remembered chiefly for existing in a record otherwise devoted to her father's economies.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Alaric's grandson, raised to the lordship over the bones of two dead uncles-and-fathers. His own father's name the chronicles omit, an economy of ink the Citadel regrets.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Spoke for Laenor Velaryon's claim at the Great Council of 101 — the losing side, as the North so often manages, of a vote that would echo for a generation.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Lysa Locke
Followed Ellard as Lord of Winterfell and left the seat to his elder son. How he stood kin to the lords before him the lineages omit; that his sons were Rickon and Bennard, they at least trouble to record.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Gilliane Glover
Parents Benjen Stark
Died leaving a thirteen-year-old heir and a younger brother with opinions about regencies — a combination the maesters have learned to file under 'trouble.'
Styled Regent of Winterfell
Wed Margaret Karstark
Parents Benjen Stark
Ruled as regent for his young nephew Cregan and proved slow to surrender the keys once the boy came of age. He discovered, in 126 AC, that his nephew's patience was considerably shorter than his regency.
Styled Lord of Winterfell; Hand of the King (briefly)
Wed Arra Norrey; Alysanne 'Black Aly' Blackwood; Lynara Stark
Parents Rickon Stark
Marched his northmen south too late for the Dance and arrived in time to judge it instead: through the six days of the Hour of the Wolf his word ruled King's Landing, though he wore the Hand's chain for but a single day — long enough to try the poisoners of Aegon II and fill the Wall with those who chose black over the headsman. Then he went home, having found King's Landing wanting.
Cregan's baseborn half-sister — if she existed at all, for only Mushroom vouches for her, and he adds that she secretly wed Prince Jacaerys before a heart tree. Archmaester Gyldayn credits neither half of the tale; this chronicle records the fool's testimony at a fool's value.
Parents Bennard Stark
Eldest of the regent's three sons, and imprisoned beside his father in 126 AC when cousin Cregan ended the regency by the direct method.
Parents Bennard Stark
Second son of Bennard, who shared his father's cell and his family's favorite name.
Parents Bennard Stark
Third of Bennard's sons, jailed with his brothers in 126 AC — an Elric among the endless Brandons and Benjens, which in this family is nearly a distinction.
Styled heir to Winterfell
Wed Jeyne Manderly
Parents Cregan Stark
Cregan's eldest, born of Arra Norrey, who died before the walls of Sunspear in the Young Dragon's Dornish war — leaving daughters, and a succession that would knot itself for a generation.
Styled Lady of Winterfell
Wed Jonnel Stark, her half-uncle
Parents Rickon Stark
Rickon's elder daughter, who stood next by the old counting when her father fell — and was married to her half-uncle Jonnel One-Eye instead of seated in his place. The union produced no children, which some maesters count a mercy of arithmetic.
Wed Jon Umber, Lord of the Last Hearth; Edric Stark, her half-uncle
Parents Rickon Stark
Rickon's younger daughter, wed first to an Umber and then to her father's half-brother Edric — Winterfell keeping its blood close, as the wolfswood keeps its shadows. By Edric she had twin sons and two daughters.
Parents Cregan Stark
First of the four daughters Alysanne Blackwood gave Cregan, as the lineages read — which grant her a name, a mother, and nothing further.
Parents Cregan Stark
Second daughter of Cregan by Black Aly — not to be confused with Alys Karstark, her good-sister, an error more than one novice has bled ink over.
Parents Cregan Stark
Third daughter of Cregan and Black Aly, of whom the chronicle preserves precisely the name.
Parents Cregan Stark
Youngest of Black Aly's daughters — a southron-sounding name in a northern lineage, and no record left of why.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Sansa Stark, his half-niece; Robyn Ryswell
Parents Cregan Stark
Succeeded his father Cregan and wed his dead half-brother's elder daughter to quiet her claim; widowed, he tried again with Robyn Ryswell. Neither bed gave him an heir, and the lordship went hunting for another son of Cregan.
Wed Serena Stark, his half-niece
Parents Cregan Stark
Cregan's third son, wed to his half-niece Serena. When Jonnel died the lordship leapt clean over Edric and his line to the fourth brother — the maesters presume Edric was already in the crypts, and note the presumption as such.
Parents Cregan Stark
Cregan's daughter by Lynara Stark. The Lyanna the realm would weep over came a century later; this one the records merely name and release.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Parents Cregan Stark
Died childless putting down the Skagosi rebellion — Skagos being the sort of island that occasionally reminds Winterfell why the maps mark it at all.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Alys Karstark
Parents Cregan Stark
Cregan's fifth and last son, from whom all later Starks of Winterfell descend — proof that in the North, patience is a form of inheritance.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Myriame Manderly
Parents Brandon Stark
Brandon's eldest, who held Winterfell, took a Manderly wife, and died without issue — leaving the chronicles little to say and this maester little to embellish.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Lorra Royce
Parents Brandon Stark
Called the banners against Dagon Greyjoy's reavers while the Iron Throne dithered, and took a wound driving them off that killed him slowly. He left seven children and a sickroom full of she-wolves debating the succession.
Parents Brandon Stark
Sister to Rodwell and Beron; the records preserve her name and misplace everything else.
Parents Brandon Stark
Brandon's natural son by Wylla Fenn, got before his marriage — eldest of the brood by the records' reckoning, and barred from all of it by the Snow.
Parents Edric Stark · Serena Stark
Elder of the twin sons Serena bore her half-uncle Edric, and named for the King Who Knelt. When Barthogan died childless the lordship passed him by for his uncle Brandon; the crypts keep the fact and swallow the reason.
Parents Edric Stark · Serena Stark
Torrhen's twin, wearing his grandfather Cregan's name with a syllable to spare — and, like his brother, passed over when Winterfell went to their uncle.
Wed Osric Umber
Parents Edric Stark · Serena Stark
Elder daughter of Edric and Serena, wed to an Umber — the second of her line sent to the Last Hearth, after her mother.
Wed Robard Cerwyn
Parents Edric Stark · Serena Stark
Younger daughter of Edric and Serena, married to a Cerwyn — half a day's ride from Winterfell, which for a Stark daughter counts as staying home.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Parents Beron Stark
Beron's eldest, lord after his father, dead without issue — the first of several brothers to hold Winterfell briefly and pass it along like a heavy cloak.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Lyanne Glover; Melantha Blackwood
Parents Beron Stark
Met Raymun Redbeard's wildling host beside Long Lake in 226 AC and was cut down there — but his brother Artos and the Umbers broke the host all the same, and the Night's Watch arrived in time only for the burying.
Wed Lysara Karstark
Parents Beron Stark
Slew Raymun Redbeard over his brother's body at Long Lake, then set the Watch to burying the wildling dead as rebuke for arriving late. The epithet, one gathers, was earned rather than granted.
Parents Beron Stark
Eldest daughter of Beron and Lorra; the chronicles name her among the she-wolves' generation and then, characteristically, fall silent.
Parents Beron Stark
Second daughter of Beron; her marriage and issue, if any, await a less careless generation of record-keepers.
Parents Beron Stark
Fourth son of Beron, of whom the records say almost nothing — which in this family may simply mean he died in bed.
Wed Arya Flint, of the mountain clans
Parents Beron Stark
Beron's youngest, who took a wife from the Flints of the mountains — which is why the clans still claim the blood of Winterfell runs in their veins, and why Winterfell does not argue.
Parents Willam Stark
Willam's son by Lyanne Glover, who died bringing him forth. The boy followed at three, of a summer chill — outlived by the wet nurse fetched to Winterfell for him, a woman the household would come to call Old Nan.
Styled Lord of Winterfell
Wed Marna Locke
Parents Willam Stark
Son of Willam and Melantha Blackwood — whence the drop of Blackwood in every Stark since. He held the North through quiet decades the singers ignore, which is the highest compliment a lord can be paid.
Wed Benedict Royce, of the junior branch of House Royce
Parents Willam Stark
Edwyle's sister, wed into the Vale — the thread by which Royces and Waynwoods still claim a cousinship with Winterfell when it suits them.
Parents Artos Stark
Twin son of Artos the Implacable and Lysara Karstark; both twins left issue, though the lineages decline to name any of it.
Parents Artos Stark
Brandon's twin. This maester notes, wearily, that the Starks own perhaps six names and share them without mercy.
Wed Harrold Rogers
Parents Rodrik Stark
Elder daughter of the Wandering Wolf and Arya Flint, wed to a Rogers of the stormlands — a longer journey south than most Stark daughters ever consent to.
Styled Lady of Winterfell
Wed Rickard Stark, her cousin
Parents Rodrik Stark
Daughter of Rodrik and Arya Flint, wed to her cousin Lord Rickard. Through her, the mountain clans' claim of kinship to 'the Ned' is no idle boast — a fact the clans repeat more often than Winterfell does.
Styled Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North
Wed Lyarra Stark, his cousin
Parents Edwyle Stark
Betrothed his children south and rode south himself to answer for his son — where Aerys named fire his champion and cooked him in his armor beneath the Iron Throne. The realm rose within the year; the Citadel files this under causes, plural.
Styled heir to Winterfell
Wed betrothed to Catelyn Tully
Parents Rickard Stark · Lyarra Stark
Rode to King's Landing shouting for Rhaegar to come out and die, and was strangled by a Tyroshi device while reaching for the sword that might have saved his burning father. Courage and prudence, the maesters note, are separate virtues.
Styled Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North, Hand of the King
Wed Catelyn Tully
Parents Rickard Stark · Lyarra Stark
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 of Winterfell
Wed Eddard Stark
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 betrothed to Robert Baratheon
Parents Rickard Stark · Lyarra Stark
The she-wolf whose disappearance with — or by, the singers quarrel over the preposition — Prince Rhaegar lit the realm afire. She died in a bed of blood in the Dornish mountains, extracting a promise her brother never repeated aloud.
Styled First Ranger of the Night's Watch
Parents Rickard Stark · Lyarra Stark
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 King in the North and of the Trident
Wed Jeyne Westerling
Parents Eddard Stark · Catelyn Tully
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 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
Parents Eddard Stark
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 Tyrion Lannister (unconsummated)
Parents Eddard Stark · Catelyn Tully
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 Eddard Stark · Catelyn Tully
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 Winterfell (presumed dead)
Parents Eddard Stark · Catelyn Tully
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 Eddard Stark · Catelyn Tully
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.
Torrhen's baseborn brother, who offered to steal into Aegon's camp and kill three dragons with three weirwood arrows. Torrhen sent him across the Trident with maesters and terms instead — arithmetic, not arrows.
Styled first Lord of Karhold
A younger son of Winterfell granted lands for putting down a rebel lord; his keep of Karl's Hold wore down to Karhold, and his blood wore down to Karstark. The wolves acknowledge the kinship — at sword-length, lately.
Styled Lords of the Wolf's Den
Sprung from a son of Winterfell seated in the Wolf's Den, they endured five hundred years — until they rose beside the Dreadfort against their own blood, and Winterfell unmade them entirely. The lesson was not lost on the Boltons, merely postponed.
Where the records quarrel, contradict, or fall silent, this chronicle sets the arguments down rather than settling for you what the texts leave open.
Whether Bran the Builder raised Winterfell, the Wall, both, or neither: the feats attributed to him would require several centuries of life, and the maesters suspect the singers of folding many builders into one convenient Brandon.
The Kings of Winter are said to have reigned for eight thousand years, yet the count of kings named in the oldest records falls laughably short of the span — either the years are inflated or the kings are missing, and the Citadel wagers on the years.
Old Nan holds the Night's King was a Stark of Winterfell, brother to the King of Winter; the surviving records, scoured on Brandon the Breaker's own order, can neither confirm nor deny — which was rather the point of the scouring.
The wildlings sing that Bael the Bard stole a daughter of Winterfell and left a bastard who inherited the seat, putting Bael's blood in every Stark since; south of the Wall the song is treason, north of it a favorite.
Lords Edric, Ellard, and Benjen held Winterfell in turn between 72 AC and the accession of Rickon, Cregan's father — so the succession runs, at least — yet how each stood kin to the last is nowhere set down, and the Citadel suspects a chronicler who thought fathers too obvious to record.
Why the lordship passed from Jonnel One-Eye to Barthogan Blacksword over their brother Edric and his line by Serena is unexplained; the tidy answer is that Edric predeceased Jonnel, and the untidy answers are best not committed to ink.
Which Brandon Stark the woman called Old Nan first came to Winterfell to nurse, the household can no longer agree — the Brandons have been so many that even the one who loves them best has lost the count.
The mother of Lord Eddard's bastard: Winterfell's household named a wetnurse called Wylla, King Robert was told a fisherman's daughter, and the wine-sick whisper of Ashara Dayne earned at least one man Lord Eddard's coldest look. The chronicle records the gossip as gossip and moves along.
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This tree gathers the current documented Stark 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 Stark holds Winterfell. 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.