House of Hornwood

**House of Hornwood** holds fealty to House of Greystone. Founded in 122 CE, following the **First Battle of Pole Town**, **Noble House Valmont** defended the region of **Southwest of East Hills**, following the defeat of pirate-mercenaries in Pole Town, following which he made his domain in the region, which would be known as "**The East Gate**".

Following the **Battle of East Hills**, also known as the "**Battle of Independence**", and the defeat of House Marshall, House Stanley of Queensgrace, and House Valmore of Riverside, after which the lands were stripped from the following houses and titles, replaced with noble houses who stayed loyal to the land and House Valmont for the **Kingdom of East Hills and Eastern Watch**. House of Hornwood then on became banners of House of Greystone.

## History

### Background

During the beginning of the second pirate attack on **East Hills** by the **Eastern Watch Bay**, following which, the newly risen noble house, House Valmont, took command of the region of the **Southwest of East Hills**, which would later be known as "**The East Gate**". After three consecutive victories against the pirate mercenaries and following which, formed various vassal houses to ensure the land's safety and its rise to power, including House Marshall, House Valmore of Riverside, House Smallrich, House of Peaseburrow, House Poole, House Goodworth, and House Simpleton.

Among the houses was **House Marshall** along with **House Poole** and **House Goodworth** that took command of the lands covering the **Southwest Hills of the East Gate**, which would contain of the Forrest Belt called "**Hornwood**", the **Market Town of Big Joe**, and the **Eastside Ports**. During the **Outlaw Revolt** in **Hornwood**, a company of sellswords assisted House Marshall in crushing the outlaw revolt. The leaders of the sellsword company were two brothers who were knighted by Lord Otto Marshall.

The two brothers would go on to serve House Marshall as sworn swords along with their company of sellswords. The company would make the town they saved in an outlaw revolt as their home, and built a farmstead that would intercept a market route, and building a toll on the crossing, earning money, aside from being sworn swords to House Marshall.

In **Late Summer of 121 CE**, a revolt would take place in the Eastside Ports, where House Marshall alongside Houses Poole and Goodworth participated in the battle, where one of the two knight brothers died defending a wounded and crippled **Lord Otto Marshall**, who was nursed back to health following the battle, while the other brother defended the knight, Ser Edmure Poole, a defenseless knight of House Poole and brother-in-law of Lord Otto Marshall. For their valor in battle and loyalty to House Marshall, Lord Otto rewarded the knight brother, Ser Gregor with the patch of land covering the Forrest Belt, called Hornwood, and thus **House of Hornwood** was founded following the battle in 122 CE.

### Rise to Power

Following the revolt of 121 CE, House of Hornwood was founded by the living knight brother, Ser Gregor, who took on the formal name, "**Ser Gregor of Hornwood**". He took on the company of sellswords as his sworn swords and the bannermen of **House of Hornwood**. With the coming years, the number of bannermen of the house grew, numbering up to thirty men.

In Late 123 CE, Lord Gregor of Hornwood participated in an outlaw revolt in the **Porter's Town**, under the command of Ser Edmure Poole. Lord Gregor with his twenty men marched to Porter's Town, a trade city, and took command of its defenses, defeating the outlaws in an ambush by the forests surrounding the city. For the reward of his leadership and aid to the city, Lord Gregor returned home with horses carrying wagons of gold, white steel swords, and fifty black sheep.

**House Hornwood** dwelled in strength and riches, mining the regions nearby for jewels and steel, with the assistance of mining guilds of Porter's Town. Following which in 124 CE, House Hornwood numbered 50 strong swordsmen and 100 archers guarding the **Hornwood Forrest Belt**. And subsequently in Late Winter of 125 CE, a host led by **Ser Edmure Poole** arrived in Hornwood at **Gregor's Stead**, a host of two hundred men with a carriage carrying **Maiden Lady Alys Poole**, daughter of Ser Edmure Poole, and niece of **Lord Thames Poole**, head of **House Poole**. Following which, Lord Gregor accepted a marriage proposal, and in 126 CE, the **Marriage of Hornwood** took place between **Lady Alys Poole** and **Lord Gregor of Hornwood**. The marriage proposal was more of an alliance pact then a proposal, following which, the guardsmen of Hornwood numbered up to 100 strong men, with 50 guards of House Poole under Lady Alys Poole.

### Fall of Power

Following the **Battle of East Hills**, also known as the "**Battle of Independence**", noble and knightly houses fought against each other, with the one group siding with Kingdom of Easternlands, while the latter, known as "**The Rebel Lords of East Hills**", fought for an independent kingdom, **East Hills and Eastern Watch**. The Battle of East Hills waged on for nearly three years, after which the Kingdom of East Hills and Eastern Watch was founded in 134 CE, following which, the Noble House, House Valmont became the **Ruling House of the Kingdom**.

During the Battle of East Hills, House Hornwood sided with their liege lord, House Marshall against the Rebel Lords, to which they lost badly, and were stripped of their lands alongside their liege lords and allying houses, such as **House Poole**, **House of Peaseburrow**, and **House Valmore of Riverside**. Nearly four decades since its foundation, House Hornwood lost their lands, with only but their home, Gregor's Stead, residing in the forests as rebel occupants. While most members of House Hornwood were executed either on battlefield or at the seat of House Marshall, few members fled outside the newly built kingdom, seeking shelter in Portlands under House Fossoway, while others who resisted their family and sided with the Rebel Lords against their family were given parlay by **Lord of Greystone**, Lord Albus Rodney, and took control of House Hornwood in Fall of 134 CE.

### Rise of Traitors

In 134 CE, distant relatives of the Hornwood Family, Lord Dyke and his family were given parlay by **Lord of Greystone**, following which they ceased control of **Gregor's Stead**, and the **Hornwood Forrest Belt**, holding fealty to House of Greystone. Lord Dyke burned Gregor's Stead to ground, building a towerhouse on its ruins with assistance of the **Builder's Guild of Greystone**, constructed a strong towerhouse, called **Tower of Hornwood**.

In 137 CE, following the assassination of Lord Dyke and his two elder sons, he was succeeded by brother, **Lord Olto Hornwood**. And in Late 168 CE, a revolt battle took place in Eastside Port, where Lord Umber died in battle with his older sons and his men, after which his men dispersed. Subsequently, Lady Olenna, widow of Lord Olto, assembled her loyalists, and with the assistance of **House Daisy of Riverside**, led by her cousin attacked Hornwood, taking control of **Hornwood**, and subsequently restored House Hornwood.

With the sworn swords of House Daisy of Riverside, and her own loyalists, Lady Olenna controlled fifty men.

Following the marriage between House Smallrich and House Hornwood, between Lord Robb Hornwood and Lady Jeyne Smallrich, assistance of men from House Smallrich, House Hornwood's swordsmen numbered to thirty men, while the **Hornwood Forrests** were guarded by forty archers, with more being trained from the towns of Hornwood.

## Members

### Loyalists of House Marshall

* Lord {Gregor of Hornwood}, Founder of **House Hornwood** and **Lord of Hornwood**.
	+ Lady {Alys Poole}, his wife. **Lady of Hornwood**.
		- Ser {Eddmund Hornwood}, his elder son. **Knight of Hornwood** and **Castellan of Hornwood**.
		- Lady {**Elena Hornwood**}, his elder daughter. **Maiden of Hornwood**.
		- Ser {Anton Hornwood}, his middle son. Knight of Hornwood.
		- Ser {Gregg Hornwood}, his younger son. Knight of Hornwood.
		- Lady {Miranda Hornwood}, his middle daughter. Maiden of Hornwood.
		- {**Doran Hornwood**}, his stillborn son.
		- Mistress {**Anna Hornwood**}, his younger twin daughter.
		- Mistress {**Mary Hornwood**}, his younger twin daughter.
	+ Ser {Anton of Hornwood}, his brother.
	+ Lady {Lysa of Hornwood}, his older sister.
	+ Ser {Edmure Poole}, his brother-in-arms and father-in-law.
	+ Lord {**Umber Hornwood**}, his grandson. Lord of Hornwood. Killed in **Battle of East Hills**.
		- Lady {**Ola Kettleback**}, his first wife. Lady of Hornwood. Died in Childbirth.
			* Ser {**Anthony Hornwood**}, his first son. Killed in Battle of East Hills.
			* Ser {**Edmure Hornwood**}, his second son. Killed in Battle of East Hills.
			* Ser {**Gregg II Hornwood**}, his third son. Killed in **Marshall's Fort's Siege**.
			* Lady {**Mary II Hornwood**}, his elder daughter. Killed in Marshall's Fort's Siege.
		- Lady {Anna Bradley}, his second wife. Lady of Hornwood. Executed in **Marshall's Fort**.
			* Ser {**Brandon Hornwood**}, his fourth son. Killed in Battle of East Hills.
			* Ser {**Tomwell Hornwood**}, his fifth son. Killed in Marshall's Fort's Siege.
			* Ser {Ronald Hornwood}, his sixth son. Whereabouts unknown.
			* Ser {**Jeremy Hornwood**}, his seventh son. Executed in Marshall's Fort.
			* Captain {Obara Hornwood}, his older middle daughter. Killed in Battle of East Hills.
			* Lady {**Ella Hornwood**}, his younger middle daughter. Executed in Marshall's Fort.
			* {Cathy Hornwood}, his younger daughter. Whereabouts unknown.
			* {**Jack Hornwood**}, his eighth son. Whereabouts unknown.
			* {**Rose Hornwood**}, his youngest daughter. Whereabouts unknown.
			* {**Gregory Hornwood**}, his nineth son. Whereabouts unknown.

### Loyalists of House Valmont

* Lord {Dyke of Hornwood}, New Founder of **House Hornwood** and **Lord of Hornwood**. Poisoned to death.
	+ Ser {**Gregory Hornwood**}, his first born. Poisoned to death.
	+ Ser {**Albert Hornwood**}, his second born. Killed in a revolt.
	+ Ser {Grenn Hornwood}, his third born. Whereabouts unknown.
	+ Ser {**Doran Hornwood**}, his fourth born. Poisoned to death.
* Lord {**Olto Hornwood**}, brother of Lord Dyke and Lord of Hornwood. Killed in a revolt.
	+ Lady {Olenna Waters}, his wife. **Lady of Hornwood**.
		- Lord {Robb Hornwood}, his elder son. Lord of Hornwood.
			* Lady {**Jeyne Smallrich**}, his wife.
				+ {**Donnel Hornwood**}, his son.
				+ {**Colette Hornwood**}, his daughter.
				+ {**Hermione Hornwood**}, his daughter.
		- Mistress {**Mary Hornwood**}, his elder daughter.
		- Ser {**Dan Hornwood**}, his middle son.
		- Master {**Ned Hornwood**}, his younger son.
		- {**Ros Hornwood**}, his younger daughter.