Preston Greenfield

Ser Preston Greenfield is an anointed knight of House Greenfield, and a member of the Kingsguard to Robert I and Joffrey I Baratheon.
== Appearance and Character ==
Preston is short.
== Books ==
=== A Game of Thrones ===
Preston accompanies Robert on his boar hunting trip in the Kingswood, where he is gored and fatally wounded. Preston is later present for the dismissal of Ser Barristan Selmy, and laughs at his sworn brother's shame.
=== A Clash of Kings ===
Preston beats Sansa Stark on the orders of Joffrey I, the new king and Sansa's betrothed. According to Sansa, he treats her like a lackwit child during the beatings. When Joffrey practices shooting at hares in the Red Keep, he almost shoots Preston in the groin. 
Ser Preston guards the Iron Throne when Tyrion Lannister sends Ser Cleos Frey to Robb Stark, the King in the North, with terms of peace. When Ser Alliser Thorne, angry about how he has been treated, tries to grab Tyrion by the sleeve, he is rebuffed by Preston. 
Ser Preston is part of the procession that goes to see Princess Myrcella Baratheon off to Dorne. During the subsequent Riot of King's Landing, Preston tries to ride back and help the High Septon against the mob, but is killed. He is so brutally stabbed and hacked that people his body is not found at first, as people are looking for a white knight, whereas he was now brown-red from head to toe. He is replaced on the Kingsguard by Ser Balon Swann.
=== A Storm of Swords ===
Tyrion is greeted with hostility by the smallfolk when he rides out to check the damage beyond the King's Gate after the Battle of the Blackwater. He assumes that if he was not protected by Ser Bronn, then they would kill him just as they did to Ser Preston. 
When Ser Jaime Lannister assumes his duties as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, he notices that the White Book has not been updated, as that is the duty of the Lord Commander, and that Ser Preston's death is yet to be recorded. 
=== A Feast for Crows ===
Princess Arianne Martell asks Ser Arys Oakheart, her lover, if he thinks that he is the first man of the Kingsguard ever to love a woman. Arys shares that he knew, amongst other things, that Ser Preston used to visit a draper's wife whenever the draper was away.
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