Stafford Lannister

Ser Stafford Lannister was Tywin Lannister's cousin. He was killed at the Battle of Oxcross.
==Biography==
===Background===
Stafford is the brother of Joanna Lannister, Tywin's late wife, and the maternal uncle of Cersei, Jaime, and Tyrion. He is also a cousin of Tywin and Kevan.
===Game of Thrones: Season 2===
Stafford is given the command over the new Lannister army, that was raised in the Westerlands to replace the troops which were destroyed in the Battle of Whispering Wood.
Robb's army sneaks through the mountains bordering the Westerlands, and ambushes Stafford's army at night in their own camp at Oxcross. Stafford's army of raw recruits is massacred, and he is killed.
==Family==
==In the books==
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Ser Stafford Lannister is the brother of Joanna Lannister. He and his sister were the children of Lord Tytos Lannister's younger brother. Thus, both Joanna and Stafford were first cousins of Tywin and the main branch of the family.
In his youth, Stafford and two more Lannisters were captured by Lady Tarbeck in retaliation for the imprisonment of her husband by Tytos. She threatened to kill the captives if her husband would be harmed. Tywin suggested his father to send Lord Tarbeck back to his wife in three pieces, but the soft-hearted Tytos complied and returned Tarbeck unharmed in exchange for the three Lannisters.
Stafford dies in the Battle of Oxcross, killed by Lord Rickard Karstark. Both Jaime and Brynden Tully consider him a poor commander, as he didn't scout the area believing Robb was far away. Tyrion is also very critical of Stafford for his failure and getting himself killed, calling him "my mutton-headed uncle." Robb had been led by Grey Wind along a goat path and had thus bypasses fortified positions in order to attack undetected.
The Lannister survivors regrouped at Lannisport under Ser Daven Lannister, Stafford's son and widely considered to be a more intelligent commander than his father. Daven wants to avenge his father, but Robb robs him of his vengeance by executing Rickard Karstark.
Jaime reacts indifferently when Catelyn tells him about Stafford's death; he mentions that Cersei used to call him "Uncle Dolt".
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