Cortnay Penrose

Cortnay Penrose was a knight of House Penrose. He was named the castellan of Storm's End by Renly Baratheon. 
== Books ==
=== A Clash of Kings ===
After Renly Baratheon is murdered, mostly of Renly's bannermen surrender to Stannis Baratheon, who beseiges Storm's End. Cortnay Penrose keeps holding the castle, fearing for the fate of Robert Baratheon's bastard Edric Storm.
In a parley outside Storm's End, he insults some of the bannermen who had turncloaked to Stannis's side, including Mathis Rowan and Alester Florent.
Cortnay offers Stannis a trial by combat, but Stannis refuses. Cortnay gets murdered by a shadow of Stannis, bred by Melisandre.
After Cortnay Penrose died, the rest of Storm's End surrendered and Stannis Baratheon had won the siege, also taking Edric Storm, and making him prepare for attacking Storm's End.
Category:House Penrose
Category:Nobles
Category:Castellans
Category:Characters from the Stormlands
Category:Knights
Category:Casualties of the War of the Five Kings
Category:Retainers of Renly Baratheon
Category:Characters killed by Melisandre