House Tyrell, root and branch — 47 names across 7 generations, seated at Highgarden in The Reach. 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 First King of the Reach (legendary)
Progenitor of half the Reach if one believes the singers, who variously make him a king, a god, and a gardener with a fondness for maidens. The Tyrells claim his blood only through Gardener daughters, a fact the Florents never tire of mentioning.
Styled Champion and sworn shield to King Gwayne V Gardener
An Andal adventurer whose skill at arms won him a king's trust and a place at Highgarden. It is one of history's quieter jests that his line rose not by his sword but by his second son's quill.
Styled Royal Steward of Highgarden
Parents Ser Alester Tyrell
A bookish second son who never took knighthood and chose the steward's chain instead. From Gareth, not his martial father or brother, do the present Tyrells descend — a genealogy of ledgers, well kept.
Styled High Steward of Highgarden
Parents Gareth Tyrell
Served so ably that the Gardeners made the office of High Steward hereditary in his line. Thus was a dynasty built: one competent accounting at a time.
Styled High Steward of Highgarden; Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South
When King Mern IX burned upon the Field of Fire, Harlan wisely opened Highgarden's gates to Aegon and was handed the Reach for his trouble. He vanished with his host in the sands of Dorne five years later, which some call payment deferred. The appendices render him Harlen, a scribal quarrel the Citadel has yet to settle.
Styled Lord of Highgarden
Parents Harlan Tyrell
Succeeded a father the desert never returned and set about making the Tyrells' paper lordship a real one, against the muttering of houses with older blood and longer memories.
Styled Lord of Highgarden
Held Highgarden in the Old King's early years and survived the Shivers, only to die days after his recovery, drunk, in a fall from his horse — spared by pestilence, undone by the cup. His younger son went on to keep the realm's accounts.
Styled Master of coin
Parents Bertrand Tyrell
Bertrand's younger son, who counted coppers for the Old King. A Tyrell keeping the realm's accounts: the family trade, merely writ larger.
Styled Lord of Highgarden
Held Highgarden at the Great Council of 101, when the lords of Westeros gathered to choose a king and rehearse, all unknowing, the war their grandsons would fight.
Styled Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South
A babe at the breast when the Dance began, which allowed his mother and castellan to keep the Reach's swords prudently sheathed. Grown, he won the Prince's Pass for the Young Dragon and governed conquered Dorne — until a hundred red scorpions beneath a bed canopy at Sandstone concluded both his rule and, in short order, the conquest.
Styled Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South
The finest lance of his generation, still feared in the lists when his beard had gone grey. Men who jousted at Ashford Meadow spoke his name the way septons speak of the Seven — frequently, and with dread.
Styled Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South
Wed Olenna of House Redwyne
Promised in his youth to Princess Shaera Targaryen, who slipped the pact to wed her own brother, he settled for a Redwyne and, by his lady's own testimony, was kind, able abed, and an oaf. He rode his horse off a cliff whilst hawking, eyes on the sky, and left the Reach to his son and its governance, in practice, to his wife.
Styled Dowager Lady of Highgarden
Wed Luthor Tyrell
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 Lord Seneschal of Highgarden
Brother to Lord Luthor and keeper of Highgarden's accounts, a man of appetites so celebrated that his epithet requires no gloss. The stewardship, it seems, still runs in the blood, if more thickly than of old.
Styled Lord Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown
Brother to Lord Luthor, entrusted with keeping the peace of Oldtown — a city of maesters, septons, and sailors, which is to say three varieties of trouble.
Styled Maester of the Citadel
Brother to Lord Luthor who traded the rose for the chain, and sits in judgment at the Citadel. Family pride, one observes, does not forge additional links.
Styled Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South, Hand of the King
Wed Alerie of House Hightower
Parents Luthor Tyrell · Olenna Tyrell
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 Highgarden
Wed Mace Tyrell
A daughter of the Hightower of Oldtown, silver-haired and serene, who wed the Reach's rose to its oldest tower and gave Highgarden four children of note.
Styled Lady of the Arbor
Wed Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor
Parents Luthor Tyrell · Olenna Tyrell
Wed back into her mother's house, binding rose to grape a second time. Her twins Horas and Hobber are called Horror and Slobber at court, which tells one most of what one needs to know.
Wed Ser Jon Fossoway
Parents Luthor Tyrell · Olenna Tyrell
Married into the Fossoways of the green apple, a house the Tyrells keep close the way a cook keeps salt — useful in nearly everything.
Styled Heir to Highgarden
Parents Mace Tyrell · Alerie Tyrell
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 Lord of Brightwater Keep
Wed Leonette of House Fossoway
Parents Mace Tyrell · Alerie Tyrell
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 Knight of the Kingsguard
Parents Mace Tyrell · Alerie Tyrell
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 Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
Wed Renly Baratheon; then Joffrey Baratheon; then Tommen Baratheon
Parents Mace Tyrell · Alerie Tyrell
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.
Parents Garth Tyrell
Natural son of Garth the Gross, kept about Highgarden in his father's service. The rose, it appears, seeds beyond the garden wall.
Parents Garth Tyrell
Brother to Garse and likewise baseborn of the Lord Seneschal, serving where his father bids.
Wed Elyn of House Norridge
Parents Ser Moryn Tyrell
Named for his lordly uncle, as second branches will, and father to a thriving twig of the cadet line. The chroniclers now bracket his name, as they do all dead men's.
Wed Lia of House Serry
Parents Ser Luthor Tyrell
A knight of the junior branch whose chief service to the house was his daughter Elinor, presently in far more interesting company than her father ever kept.
Styled Maester
Parents Ser Luthor Tyrell
Forged his chain and vanished into honest obscurity, as the better sort of maester does.
Wed Ser Leo Blackbar
Parents Ser Luthor Tyrell
Wed into House Blackbar of Bandallon, extending the rose's runners westward as the family gardening manual prescribes.
Styled Novice at the Citadel
Parents Ser Moryn Tyrell
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 Companion to Queen Margaery
Wed betrothed to Alyn Ambrose
Parents Ser Theodore Tyrell
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 Ser Theodore Tyrell
The third Luthor in as many generations. The Tyrells conserve names as carefully as coin.
A cousin of Lord Mace who fell at Ashford, in the battle where Lord Tarly's van turned Robert Baratheon aside — the rose's one clean victory in that war, and Quentin's last morning.
Wed Lysa of House Meadows
Parents Ser Quentin Tyrell
Ser Quentin's only child, who wed a Meadows and raised two sons and a daughter — the loud one, presently sharing her queen's confinement.
Parents Ser Olymer Tyrell
Elder of Ser Olymer's sons, of whom the rolls preserve the name and nothing besides — the common portion of cadet sons.
Parents Ser Olymer Tyrell
Ser Olymer's second son, brother to Raymund and Megga; history grants him a line in an appendix and holds its tongue thereafter.
Styled Maester at Blackcrown
A cousin of Lord Mace in Citadel grey, serving House Bulwer at Blackcrown. What with Gormon, Medwick, and Normund, the Citadel does not want for roses.
A cousin of Lord Mace cut down by the Smiling Knight, that laughing madman of the Kingswood Brotherhood — a reminder that outlaw steel does not pause to admire a sigil.
Wed Lord Jon Bulwer
Parents Ser Victor Tyrell
Ser Victor's daughter, wed to the Lord of Blackcrown and widowed by a summer fever. Her daughter Alysanne heads her house at eight years old, which is young even for the Reach.
Wed Alys of House Beesbury
Parents Ser Victor Tyrell
Ser Victor's son, who married into the Beesburys of Honeyholt and filled his hall with five children — among them Alla, the sweetest voice in Margaery's train.
Parents Ser Leo Tyrell
Alla's sister, set down in the rolls and nowhere else; not every rose is carried to court.
Parents Ser Leo Tyrell
Eldest of Ser Leo's three sons, bearing a name the house has replanted since the days of the scorpioned lord. The Tyrells conserve names as carefully as coin.
Parents Ser Leo Tyrell
Second of Ser Leo's sons, known to the chronicles as a name between two brothers.
Parents Ser Leo Tyrell
Youngest of Ser Leo's sons; the appendices, having named him, feel their duty discharged.
Styled Companion to Queen Margaery
Parents Ser Olymer Tyrell
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 Companion to Queen Margaery
Parents Ser Leo Tyrell
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.
Where the records quarrel, contradict, or fall silent, this chronicle sets the arguments down rather than settling for you what the texts leave open.
The Florents of Brightwater Keep hold — with some genealogical justice — that their descent from House Gardener is superior to the Tyrells', and that Highgarden was Aegon's to give only in the sense that stolen fruit belongs to the thief. The grant of Brightwater itself to Ser Garlan has not softened their view.
The Tyrell claim of descent from Garth Greenhand runs only through Gardener daughters wed into the line of stewards; the songs assert it, the septons repeat it, and the maesters note that songs are not records.
Aegon's grant is spelled to Harlan Tyrell in the histories yet Harlen in the appendices of the chronicles of the recent wars; two letters, and a small war of footnotes at the Citadel.
Ser Quentin, Ser Victor, and Maester Normund are set down only as 'cousins' to Lord Mace; which ancestor grafted their twig to the main stem of the rose, no appendix condescends to say.
Lady Olenna claims she schemed her own way out of her betrothal to Prince Daeron Targaryen; other accounts suggest the prince required little discouraging. The lady's version is, as ever, the better story.
This tree gathers every named Tyrell the novels and their histories record — kings and lords, daughters and bastards, cadet offshoots and all. 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 Tyrell holds Highgarden. 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.