Robert II Baratheon

*This page is about the twenty-third ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. For other uses, see: Robert Baratheon (disambiguation)*

## Robert II Baratheon

* Dan Jeannotte (young)
* Elderly

## Biographical information

### Died

391 AC (aged 84) at King's Landing
Died of old age

## Political information

### Title(s)

King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men
Lord of the Seven Kingdoms
Protector of the Realm

## Personal information

### Also known as

Robb Baratheon
The Direstag
Jaehaerys Come Again
Robert the Elder

### Spouse(s)

Lyra Hightower (1st wife)
Jeyne Harlaw (2nd wife)
Emylia Bracken (3rd wife)

### Child(ren)

**With Lyra Hightower:**
Steffon Baratheon
Eddard Baratheon
Serena Baratheon

**With Jeyne Harlaw:**
Lyra Baratheon
Shireen Baratheon
Ysabel Baratheon
Gendry Baratheon
Floris Baratheon

**With Emylia Bracken:**
Martyn Baratheon
Alynne Baratheon
Rosamund Baratheon
Rylene Baratheon

**Bastard children:**
Adrian Waters
Duncan Waters
Durran Storm

## Behind the scenes information

### Portrayed by

Dan Jeannotte

"*A good conqueror rules a realm of great warriors. A good king rules a realm of farmers and smiths, who die old in their beds, having never held a spear in their lives.*"
―Robert II Baratheon
King **Robert II Baratheon** was the twenty-third ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the fifth monarch of the Baratheon Dynasty. He was the eldest child and only son of King Gendry I Baratheon and his wife, Queen Arya Stark, and the older brother of Lyanna Baratheon. He reigned from 325 AC until his death in 391 AC, and was succeeded by his great-grandson, Robert III Baratheon.

He was formally styled as **Robert of the House Baratheon, the Second of His Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm**.

## Biography

### Background

Born two years following the end of the Great War, Robert was named for both Gendry's father and Arya's older brother, and hence was intimately known simply as "**Robb**" for much of his youth.

### *A Dream of Spring*

Arya perished during the War of the Narrow Sea when Robert was eight years old, leaving Gendry to raise him and his sister mostly alone. Gendry gave Robert a modest upbringing, emphasising the day-to-day realities of the smallfolk he would come to rule over, but nonetheless ensured Robert received a princely education that he himself sorely lacked.

### *A Dream of Spring*: Epilogue

Gendry died in 325 AC, shortly after Robert's eighteenth nameday, and Robert's subsequent accession to the Iron Throne marked the first peaceful and uncontested accession of a monarch since Aerys II Targaryen ascended the Iron Throne over six decades prior. Shortly after his coronation, Robert married Lyra Hightower.

### Long Reign

Robert had three children with Lyra before she died of a fever in 336 AC. He married his second wife, Jeyne Harlaw, in 340 AC, siring five further children with her before her death during childbirth in 364 AC. He married his third and final wife, Emylia Bracken, in 369 AC, and had another four children with her, for a total of twelve trueborn children (although with only ten surviving to adolescence), in addition to three recognised bastard children. Robert died in 391 AC at the age of eighty-four after sixty-six years on the Iron Throne, making him both the oldest and longest reigning monarch in the history of the Seven Kingdoms; outlasting King Jaehaerys I Targaryen by fifteen years in age and eleven years in tenure. Robert died having outlived numerous people far younger than him, including more than half of his children.

Robert is generally seen as one of the most successful monarchs in the history of the Seven Kingdoms. His long reign was peaceful and bountiful, and saw the realm entirely recover from the horrors of the Great War and it's other contemporary conflicts, with Robert even living to see King's Landing regain it's population from before the Battle of King's Landing.

Robert's death almost triggered a war of succession, only avoided by the clever political maneuvering of his great-grandson and successor, Robert III Baratheon, and his allies, among them including the late Robert II Baratheon's second-born son, Eddard Baratheon.

## Personality

As per his upbringing, Robert championed the smallfolk and pushed the nobility to give them more rights and better conditions, whilst never neglecting his role in placating the Great Houses to keep the fragile realm together. Robert's virility was praised in his time, but the abundance of heirs at the time of his death coupled with the untimely death of his first-born son, Steffon Baratheon, were seen as the primary causes of the Bloodless War.