House Greyjoy, root and branch — 28 names across 10 generations, seated at Pyke in The Iron Islands. 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 the Iron Islands (legendary)
Wed a mermaid, if the priests are believed
He ruled the isles a thousand years and seven, wed a mermaid, and slew the sea dragon Nagga, whose bones still rib the hill on Old Wyk — so the drowned men insist, and no maester has yet been drowned for doubting it aloud. The Greyjoys count themselves among his hundred heirs, as does half the nobility of the isles.
Styled High King of the Iron Islands (chosen by kingsmoot)
Raised up at a kingsmoot, he wrested Bear Island and Cape Kraken from the North; his conquests, in the honored ironborn fashion, outlived him by scarcely a tide.
Styled High King of the Iron Islands (chosen by kingsmoot)
A driftwood king of the lean years, when Gardener and Hightower alike stopped sending tribute. He sailed south to collect it and met Lord Lymond Hightower instead, who slew him and set the captured ironmen to strengthening Oldtown's walls — thralldom turned back upon the thrall-takers. The numeral quietly asserts two earlier Theons of whom the record says nothing at all.
Styled High King of the Iron Islands (chosen by kingsmoot)
Coldwind they named him, and the feeble fleets the Kings in the North kept sending to sea he sent to the bottom. That the moots crowned a fifth Balon tells us four came before him; the Citadel would be grateful for so much as one of those reigns set down on paper.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke, Lord of the Iron Islands
With Harren and all his line burned in their tower, Aegon suffered the ironborn to choose their own lord, and the captains raised up Vickon of Pyke — proof that even a kraken can read the weather. He bent the knee, kept the king's peace, and died in his bed, three feats no Hoare had managed together.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke, Lord of the Iron Islands
Parents Vickon Greyjoy
Drowned the second coming of the priest-king Lodos in blood and shipped the pretender's head to King Aenys pickled in brine, then spent the boon it earned him sweeping the septons and septas from the isles. The Drowned God, one supposes, was content.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke
Wed no rock wife; salt wives past easy counting, the first four claimed at fourteen
Reaving from the age of ten, he came home at fifteen drenched in other men's blood to claim the Seastone Chair, and spent the Dance harvesting the undefended west for Rhaenyra's cause and his own amusement. A salt wife named Tess opened his throat with his own dagger at Faircastle, which the ironborn account a fitting death.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke
Parents Dalton Greyjoy
A salt son not yet six when his father bled out at Faircastle, to whom the chair passed for want of any trueborn heir. His aunts seized his person, his mother was put to death, his half-brother was raised against him, and Lady Johanna's westermen came calling — yet the boy kept the chair. That he kept his head as well is the most remarkable fact of his lordship.
Parents Dalton Greyjoy
Toron's younger salt-born brother, raised up as a rival claimant by his father's cousins and the lords Harlaw and Blacktyde, then taken when Lady Johanna Lannister's revenge fell upon the isles in 134 AC; he was gelded and made the fool of Casterly Rock, a jape the westermen found considerably funnier than the ironborn did.
Styled Lord of the Iron Islands
Archmaester Haereg records a lord who dreamed of conquering new lands beyond the Lonely Light, out across the Sunset Sea; on how that ambition ended, the sea, as is its habit, has declined to elaborate. When he ruled, the histories do not trouble to say.
Styled Lord of the Iron Islands
Swore a blood oath with Bittersteel in the days of the Blackfyre risings, then sold him to his enemies — a bargain Haereg thought worth recording and the Golden Company has never thought worth forgiving. Oaths, it seems, weigh less than iron when the wind shifts.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke
Lord Reaper in the days of Aerys I, when the king's peace ran thin and Bloodraven's eyes were fixed elsewhere; he reaved the western coasts so freely that greybeards on the isles still measure their captains against him. Quellon, who would haul the isles the other way entirely, was his grandson.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke, Lord of the Iron Islands
Wed thrice wed: a Stonetree, a Sunderly, and a Piper of Pinkmaiden
Grandson to Dagon the reaver through a son the chronicles never trouble to name, he was a mountain of a lord who spent his strength hauling the isles toward the green lands' ways — maesters welcomed, thralls forbidden, a Piper bride to seal it — and got nine sons for his trouble, of whom the sea and the cradle kept five. He died fighting at the Mander in Robert's Rebellion, a war he had counselled against and his elder sons talked him into.
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
Eldest of the Stonetree sons, taken in boyhood by the greyscale as it turned him to stone by inches. On the manner of his last breath, see the disputes below.
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
The Stonetree marriage was not a lucky one; Quenton did not outlast the cradle.
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
Dead in the cradle like his brother Quenton, leaving the Seastone Chair to the Sunderly sons.
Styled Lord Reaper of Pyke; twice a self-crowned king
Wed Alannys of House Harlaw
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
Estas bifurcaciones nombran muertes, finales y sendas que los libros aún no han recorrido. Desvélalas solo si conoces ambos caminos, o si no temes saber.
Styled Lady of Pyke
Wed Balon Greyjoy
Estas bifurcaciones nombran muertes, finales y sendas que los libros aún no han recorrido. Desvélalas solo si conoces ambos caminos, o si no temes saber.
Styled King of the Isles and the North (by grace of the kingsmoot)
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
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Styled Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet
Wed thrice wed: the first died in childbed, the second of a pox, the third beneath his fists
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
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Parents Quellon Greyjoy
Lost half a hand to Aeron playing the finger dance, and the rest of himself to the maester who treated it — a cure the Damphair never forgave and never ceased to preach against.
Styled priest of the Drowned God
Parents Quellon Greyjoy
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Parents Quellon Greyjoy
The only son of the Piper marriage, a sickly child with a soft oversized head who did not live to see manhood; a daughter followed stillborn after Quellon's death, and with the two of them went the greater part of his greenland ambitions.
Styled heir to Pyke
Parents Balon Greyjoy · Alannys Harlaw
Balon's heir led the assault on Seagard in his father's first rebellion and died beneath its walls at Lord Jason Mallister's hand, the Booming Tower's bell tolling above him.
Parents Balon Greyjoy · Alannys Harlaw
Crushed in the collapse of Pyke's south tower when King Robert's men stormed the castle. The tower has since been rebuilt; the son has not.
Styled captain of the Black Wind
Wed Erik Ironmaker, wed by proxy and entirely without her leave
Parents Balon Greyjoy · Alannys Harlaw
Estas bifurcaciones nombran muertes, finales y sendas que los libros aún no han recorrido. Desvélalas solo si conoces ambos caminos, o si no temes saber.
Styled heir to Pyke, ward of Winterfell
Parents Balon Greyjoy · Alannys Harlaw
Estas bifurcaciones nombran muertes, finales y sendas que los libros aún no han recorrido. Desvélalas solo si conoces ambos caminos, o si no temes saber.
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 Euron Greyjoy
Estas bifurcaciones nombran muertes, finales y sendas que los libros aún no han recorrido. Desvélalas solo si conoces ambos caminos, o si no temes saber.
Where the records quarrel, contradict, or fall silent, this chronicle sets the arguments down rather than settling for you what the texts leave open.
Descent from the Grey King is claimed by the Greyjoys and near a hundred other houses of the isles besides; the Goodbrothers of Great Wyk assert the senior line through the Grey King's leal eldest brother, and no kingsmoot ever settled the matter.
The numerals of the driftwood kings — Theon III, Balon V — attest to Theons and Balons whose reigns no surviving record describes; the Citadel lists them as established in name and nothing else.
The line between Goren (fl. 37 AC) and Dalton (d. 133 AC), and between Toron's salt-born issue and Dagon (fl. c. 212 AC), is nowhere set down; Haereg does establish Quellon as Dagon's grandson, but the son who links them goes unnamed, and where the lords Alton and Torwyn fall in the order no record says. The house's own maesters bridge these gaps with confidence and no evidence.
Toron and Rodrik were salt sons, born of captive wives under the Old Way; whether such issue may lawfully sit the Seastone Chair was answered in 133 AC by axes rather than precedent, in a succession war that nearly unmade the house.
Harlon Greyjoy died of greyscale as a boy — though the Crow's Eye has been heard to boast of helping three of his brothers to their graves, stone-stiffened Harlon and soft-headed little Robin among them (a preview chapter of The Winds of Winter; the account is Euron's own, which is to say worthless or worse). [spoilers]
Whether Balon's fall from the rope bridge in 299 AC was the storm's doing or a hired hand's is hotly argued; the Damphair holds it plain kinslaying, and the Silence gliding into Lordsport the very next day keeps the question alive. [spoilers]
The kingsmoot of Old Wyk that crowned Euron is itself disputed: Asha's and Aeron's partisans note that by the precedent of Torgon the Latecomer, a moot held in a rightful claimant's absence may be called void. [spoilers]
The name 'Yara' for Balon's daughter is a screen invention (show-only); in every book she is Asha, and the maesters see no reason to indulge the renaming.
This tree gathers every named Greyjoy 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 Greyjoy holds Pyke. 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.