Wyman Manderly
Lord of White Harbor
fl. 299–300 AC
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.
House Manderly — seat, history, and blood
House Manderly
The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Manderly — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
- Seat
- White Harbor
- Region
- The North
- Founder
- no single founding hero; the house's history begins in disgrace, driven from the Reach roughly a thousand years before the Conquest by a Gardener king persuaded that the Manderlys had grown too rich to trust
The Manderlys are the North's strangest fit and its most loyal exception — Reach exiles granted the mouth of the White Knife by a King in the North who asked only that they hold it, and who built on that grant the only true city the North has ever had. They kept the Faith of the Seven their neighbors abandoned, kept septons where others keep godswoods, and have kept faith with House Stark for a thousand years running, a debt one infamous wedding-night massacre appears to have come to collect on rather badly.
The people of House Manderly
The lords, ladies, and branches of Manderly the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
What the record disputes
Where the sources disagree or a song outruns the maesters, the chronicle marks the doubt rather than settling it.
The contents of the pies Lord Manderly served at the Winterfell wedding feast are never stated outright in the text; the Chronicle records the implication the novel constructs without asserting it as confirmed fact.
The exact year of the Manderlys' exile from the Reach is given only approximately in the sources consulted; the Chronicle preserves that approximation rather than inventing precision.
What is House Manderly known for?
The Manderlys are the North's strangest fit and its most loyal exception — Reach exiles granted the mouth of the White Knife by a King in the North who asked only that they hold it, and who built on that grant the only true city the North has ever had. They kept the Faith of the Seven their neighbors abandoned, kept septons where others keep godswoods, and have kept faith with House Stark for a thousand years running, a debt one infamous wedding-night massacre appears to have come to collect on rather badly.
Where is the seat of House Manderly?
House Manderly holds White Harbor, in The North. The chronicle traces the house from its founding down to its part in the present tale, marking legend as legend wherever the songs run ahead of the record.
Is House Manderly in the books or only the show?
Book canon. This history follows George R. R. Martin's novels first, then the histories — Fire & Blood and The World of Ice & Fire — and does not follow the television series where it diverges.