Gendry I Baratheon

Succumbed to his wounds after fighting against numerous members of the Whispering Knights

## Political information

### House(s)

Baratheon of Storm's End (legitamised)
Baratheon of King's Landing

### Title(s)

King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men
Lord of the Seven Kingdoms
Protector of the Realm
Lord of Storm's End (formerly)
Lord Paramount of the Stormlands (formerly)
Warden of the South (formerly)

### Predecessor(s)

Daenerys I Targaryen (Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men)
Edric Storm (Lord of Storm's End, de facto)
Stannis Baratheon (Lord of Storm's End, de jure)
Mace Tyrell (Warden of the South)

### Successor(s)

Robert II Baratheon (King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men)
Edric Baratheon (Lord of Storm's End; Warden of the South)

## Personal information

### Also known as

The Black Stag of King's Landing
Bastard King
The Silent Storm

### Lover(s)

Cerissa (formerly)
Ella Flowers (formerly)
Myrielle (formerly)

### Child(ren)

Robert II Baratheon
Lyanna Baratheon

### Sibling(s)

**Paternal half-siblings:**
Mya Stone
Bella
Unnamed brother
Edric Baratheon
Barra
15 others

## Behind the scenes information

### Series

*Game of Thrones*
*A Dream of Spring*

### Portrayed by

Joe Dempsie

"*I wasn't born to be king. I was born to be a Flea Bottom blacksmith or a black brother at the Wall. They put a crown on my head because Daenerys came along and made me her heir to spite the true one. Without her, the highborn would've kicked me into a ditch like any other bastard.*"
―Gendry BaratheonKing **Gendry I Baratheon** was the twenty-second ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and fourth monarch of the Baratheon Dynasty. He was a legally unacknowledged bastard of King Robert Baratheon, legitimised by Queen Daenerys Targaryen, and the half-brother of his father's nineteen other bastard children, among them Edric Baratheon, who Gendry himself legitimised. He reigned from 305 AC until his death in 325 AC, and was succeeded by his son, Robert II Baratheon.

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

Born in King's Landing in the slums of Flea Bottom, he spent his early life as the apprentice of King's Landing blacksmith Tobho Mott. Following the execution of Eddard Stark, Tobho, wise to Gendry's lineage, sent him to a Night's Watch recruiter to be taken to the Wall, in order to protect him from the wrath of King Joffrey Baratheon. Gendry and the rest of the recruits were ultimately captured and taken to Harrenhal, but Gendry escaped alongside Arya Stark and Hot Pie. The three were later captured by the Brotherhood Without Banners, and Gendry was soon after sold to Melisandre and taken to Dragonstone to be sacrificed to the Lord of Light, but was saved by Davos Seaworth and made it back to King's Landing. Several years later, Gendry was found again by Davos and chose to travel north to participate in the Great War. Just before the Fall of Winterfell, Gendry was legitimised by Queen Daenerys Targaryen and made Lord of Storm's End and Daenerys' heir to the Iron Throne.

Following Daenerys' death and the conclusion of the Great War, Gendry legitimised and granted his old titles to his brother Edric, and assumed the Iron Throne. Gendry soon after married his lover, Arya Stark, and sired two children; a son who they named Robert (or Robb) after both Gendry's father and Arya's elder brother, and Lyanna, who they named for Arya's aunt. Nine years into his reign, the War of the Narrow Sea broke out, which saw the deaths of both Arya and Edric, leaving Gendry to turn inward and mourn for the rest of his life, earning him the nickname '**The Silent Storm**'. Gendry was killed after twenty years on the throne whilst rescuing Lyanna from a group of outlaws in the Reach known as the Whispering Knights.

## Biography

### Background

See Gendry Baratheon/Background on Wiki of Westeros

### *Game of Thrones*: Season 1

See Gendry Baratheon/*Game of Thrones*: Season 1 on Wiki of Westeros

### *Game of Thrones*: Season 2

See Gendry Baratheon/*Game of Thrones*: Season 2 on Wiki of Westeros

### *Game of Thrones*: Season 3

See Gendry Baratheon/*Game of Thrones*: Season 3 on Wiki of Westeros

After rowing away from Dragonstone, Gendry eventually made it back to King's Landing, where he returned to work as a blacksmith. He remained in King's Landing for nearly four years, during which time he slept with two girls; Cerissa and Ella Flowers. He went on to become lovers with a merchant's daughter named Myrielle. The two were engaged in a relationship for around two years, before separating around 304 AC.

### *Game of Thrones*: Season 7

After smuggling Tyrion Lannister into King's Landing to parlay with his brother Jaime, Davos Seaworth went to locate Gendry. Upon meeting him, Gendry eagerly offered up his assistance to Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, bemoaning the fact he is currently making swords for the family that killed his father and tried to kill him. Gendry accompanied Davos and Tyrion out of King's Landing, killing two goldcloaks with his warhammer after they recognised Tyrion.

Upon reaching Dragonstone, Gendry met with his estranged brother, Edric Storm, and Davos's son Devan Seaworth, who had been effectively ruling Storm's End since the departure of Stannis Baratheon. He also met Jon Snow, and the two soon bonded over their fathers. After Jon Snow announced his intention to go beyond the Wall and retrieve a wight as proof of the return of the White Walkers, Gendry eagerly offered to go with him.

After arriving at Eastwatch-by-the-sea, Gendry warned Jon not to trust the Brotherhood Without Banners, as they had sold him to Melisandre. None-the-less, facing the task at hand, the group put their differences aside as Gendry, Edric, Jon Snow, Jorah Mormont, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Sandor Clegane and Tormund Giantsbane embarked on their mission beyond the Wall.

The group were successful in capturing a wight, but not before alerting the entire Army of the Dead to their presence. Jon sent Edric back to Eastwatch to send the call out for help, while Gendry became trapped on a small island in a lake with the rest of the group, awaiting rescue from Daenerys Targaryen. After several days, Thoros of Myr succumbed to his injuries and the cold, the lake refroze, and the Army of the Dead began attacking the group. Gendry killed several wights with his warhammer, but was soon close to being overrun. He and his group were saved by the arrival of Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons, but one of Daenerys's dragons, Viserion, was killed by the Night King. Gendry mounted Drogon with the rest of the survivors (except Jon Snow), and flew back to the relative safety of Eastwatch-by-the-sea.

Edric took several days to recover from his sprint back to Eastwatch, so Gendry and Devan decided to stay with him before riding for Winterfell. Within minutes of the group's departure, a fearsome screech pierced the air, as a re-animated Viserion mounted by the Night King began attacking the Wall. The trio witnessed in horror as the Wall crumbled around Eastwatch, destroying it, and the Army of the Dead emerged from the carnage. The trio began riding south, hard and fast, with the Army of the Dead fast on their heels.

### *Game of Thrones*: Season 8

Gendry and his companions rode into Winterfell shortly after the arrival of Daenerys Targaryen and her armies. Immediately, Gendry ran over to Jon Snow, frantically informing him of what he saw at Eastwatch. Gendry then noticed that Arya was standing beside him. The two embraced, having long believed the other to be dead.

Gendry soon got to work, helping forge dragonglass weapons to fend off the Army of the Dead. Whilst there, Davos gave Gendry a gift; his father's warhammer to replace the once he had lost on the Wight Hunt. Gendry proceeded to augment the hammer, tipping the end with dragonglass to make it effective against wights. Arya also approached Gendry, flirting with him, and commissioned him to make a weapon suited to her fighting style.

A day before the arrival of the Night King, Gendry feasted in the great hall of Winterfell along with his friends, Edric and Devan. He got up to leave, but was stopped by Daenerys Targaryen, who questioned Gendry on his lineage. Gendry, after some hesitation, confirmed to Daenerys that was indeed to the son of Robert Baratheon. Daenerys responded by legitimising him, naming him Lord of Storm's End - and heir presumptive to the Iron Throne. Dumbfounded, Gendry accepted the honours and titles suddenly heaped upon him, and the great hall erupted in toasts. In reality, Daenerys did this not to necessarily honour Gendry, but to counter the threat posed to her position by Jon Snow, who was truthfully the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen. The next day, Arya confronted Gendry over his lineage, asking him why it took Daenerys Targaryen to tell her of it. After a blustering diversion, Gendry admitted that he was concerned she would think of him differently. Arya reassured Gendry that it wouldn't, or at least, not in any way he wouldn't like.

On the eve of battle, Gendry completed his weapon for Arya, and approached her alone to deliver it to her. Arya questioned Gendry over why Melisandre wanted him, before questioning him on how many girls he had slept with in the past. With Gendry flustered, Arya stated that she believes she will die soon, and wishes to know what sex feels like before she does. The couple then stripped each other naked, and had sex. Several hours later, the horns of Winterfell blew, signaling the arrival of the White Walkers.

In the ensuing battle, Gendry manned one of a pair of scorpions, the other being manned by Edric. Together, the duo succeeded in downing Viserion with their dragonglass tipped scorpion bolts, but Gendry's position was soon after overrun, forcing Gendry into the fighting on the ground. Gendry eventually found himself at a breach in the castle walls, staring down face-to-face with the Night King. Just beyond him, was Jon Snow, readying Longclaw to fight the creature. Together, Jon and Gendry dueled the Night King, all the way to the courtyard just outside the Godswood, until Gendry was knocked out of the fight after the Night King grabbed his forearm and threw him across the courtyard with his inhuman strength.

Gendry continued to fight the onslaught of wights as Winterfell was slowly overcome by the army of the dead. After Jon Snow landed a would-be fatal blow on the Night King, only to realise that Valyrian steel was ineffective against the Night King, everyone was made all-to-aware that the castle would soon fall. Realising this, Bran Stark warged into Drogon to rescue the survivors, among them Gendry. Gendry was flown to Castle Cerwyn, where the battle's survivors regrouped.

Gendry accompanied the army of the living to the crossroads, where they awaited reinforcements from Houses Tully and Arryn. Gendry was then sent by Daenerys to raise an army in the Stormlands, accompanied by Davos, Edric, Devan and Brienne of Tarth. Ravens had been sent ahead of their arrival in Storm's End, and a large army of Stormlanders greeted them. The army then promptly set sail on Stannis Baratheon's old royal fleet, bound for King's Landing.

As the fleet approached Dragonstone, it was attacked by Euron Greyjoy and his forces, who had previously captured the island from Daenerys's token garrison. Gendry led a force to retake the island in his queen's name. After fighting their way to the castle's gates, Daenerys arrived atop Drogon to help. However, the Night King then arrived atop Viserion, who had been reanimated for a second time, and the two dragons became locked in another deadly duel. Euron Greyjoy soon fled the castle, and as the dance above them intensified, Gendry followed suit. Drogon eventually got the upper hand and sent Viserion crashing into the castle below. Edric then proceeded to destroy the castle by igniting a cache of wildfire that had been prepared by the Alchemists Guild during Euron's occupation. To Gendry's horror, despite obliterating the castle and corpses contained within, the explosion did nothing to affect the Night King.

Gendry's fleet arrived in King's Landing just in time to witness the end of Cersei Lannister's reign. Following the destructive siege, he reunited with Arya, full of regret from her attempt to assassinate Cersei Lannister.

Before long, the Army of the Dead appeared on the horizon, and the final battle for King's Landing began. Gendry fought alongside Arya and Edric, but found themselves continuedly forced to fall back, until they were fighting their way through the halls of the Red Keep. Gendry witnessed the death of Rhaegal, and presumably it's then-rider, Daenerys Targaryen. Gendry and his compatriots were eventually cornered with no way out, but all of a sudden, the assaulting wights fell in unison; Bran Stark and Jon Snow had killed the Night King, and the Great War was over.

Gendry and Arya rushed to the Great Hall, where they found that Daenerys had indeed died (not from the initial fall, but from charging the Night King in a valiant but hopeless attempt to protect Bran). They also found Jon Snow, dying of a fatal wound in Bran's arms, and Arya moved to embrace him. It was only after this that the truth washed over Gendry; he was now the new monarch of the Seven Kingdoms.

In the following weeks and months, Gendry oversaw a memorial to the fallen, and the reconstruction of the Red Keep and King's Landing. After much soul-searching, Arya agreed to marry Gendry, making her Queen Consort of the Seven Kingdoms. Gendry appointed a new Small Council; naming Bran Stark as his Hand of the King, Tyrion Lannister as Master of Coin, Samwell Tarly as Master of Laws, Davos Seaworth as Master of Ships, and Brienne of Tarth as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. He also legitamised Edric as Edric Baratheon, and named him as the new Lord of Storm's End.

### Early reign

Gendry secured the loyalty of Dorne through his execution of Ellaria Sand, bringing a final end to the Dornish Civil War that had run concurrently to the Great War. He also secured the Reach by naming Lord Baelor Hightower of Oldtown as the new Lord Paramount of the Reach, and gave the castle of Highgarden to Samwell Tarly. Furthermore, he was a signatory to the Treaty of Long Lake, which dissolved the Night's Watch, and formally inducted the Free Folk and the lands beyond the Wall into the North as an autonomous region.

A year into his reign, he led a force to return the Iron Islands to the fold, which had descended into anarchy following the death of Yara Greyjoy during the Battle of King's Landing. During the occupation, he agreed to make Rodrik Harlaw the new Lord of the Iron Islands.

Gendry filled out the remaining slot on his Small Council by appointing Myrielle, his former lover from before the Great War, as his Mistress of Whisperers.

During their early reign, Gendry and Arya passed a number of sweeping laws which reformed succession and codes of chivalry. Most notably, male-preference primogeniture was abolished in favour of absolute primogeniture, making elder sisters capable of inheriting lands and titles ahead of competing brothers. Gendry also outlawed incest within immediate family circles, owing to it's propensity to cause madness and psychopathy.

In 307 AC, Gendry and Arya's first child was born; a boy which they named Robert (or simply Robb), to honour both Gendry's father and Arya's elder brother. Two years later in 309 AC, their second child was born; a girl which they named Lyanna, to honour Arya's aunt, Lyanna Stark.

In 311 AC, a representative of the Iron Bank of Braavos, Noho Dimittis, approached Gendry asking for the loans taken by his predecessors be repaid. Gendry refused him, stating that the loans taken out during the reign of his father had been repaid, and that the loans taken out by Cersei Lannister should not be his, nor anyone else's responsibility. In response, the Iron Bank withdrew all contact from King's Landing, and began colluding with the budding Eastern Coalition.

### *A Dream of Spring*

In 314 AC, Bran Stark temporarily resigned as Hand of the King to conduct an expedition beyond the Wall, in order to ascertain the final extinction of the White Walkers. In his stead, Gendry named his brother Edric as Hand of the King.

Shortly after Bran's departure, the Eastern Coalition attacked the Seven Kingdoms. Edric returned to the Stormlands to face the armies led by Aeron Blackfyre, while Gendry dealt with the armies that had landed in the Crownlands, led by Asaro Trellos. Gendry commanded the Battle of Rosby, but failed to deal a decisive blow. Meanwhile, Arya had rode south to assist in the Battle of Storm's End, and was captured by Euron Greyjoy.

Gendry gave leave to Edric and Brienne of Tarth to conduct a rescue mission to Tarth to try and free Arya, but the mission proved unsuccesful, and resulted in Arya's death by the hand of Euron. Enraged and grief-stricken, Gendry blamed Brienne, stripped her of her white cloak, and banished her from the capital. Gendry lead the decisive Battle in the Tourney Grounds, which saw Asaro Trellos captured, but when Asaro was broken out by Euron Greyjoy with Edric present shortly after, he began to increasingly distrust Edric, believing he may be colluding with his enemies to take his throne.

When Edric and Devan vanished near Volantis, Gendry took it as vindication of Edric being a traitor. He proclaimed as such before the Small Council, leading to Davos's resignation as Master of Ships. Gendry appointed Myrielle and Bronn Blackwater as his new Hand of the King and Master of Ships respectively.

In reality, Gendry and Devan had been taken prisoner in Myr. Whilst there, they uncovered evidence of the Eastern Coalition's true plans for the realm; to divide and colonise it. During their subsequent escape, Devan was killed, and Edric was wrecked on Dragonstone. Upon receiving word, Gendry travelled to Dragonstone, prepared to confront his brother. The two dueled in the ruins of the castle, until Edric disarmed Gendry, enabling him to reason with him and present him with the evidence he uncovered in Myr.

The two brothers soon reconciled and travelled back to King's Landing. There, numerous co-conspirators of the Eastern Coalition, led by Myrielle, led an attempted coup. The coup soon failed, due in part to the return of Bran Stark, and all the perpetrators were killed or imprisoned. Gendry subsequently reappointed Bran and Brienne as Hand of the King and Lord Commander of the Kingsguard respectively.

Gendry participated in the Battle of the Crossroads, personally slaying Euron Greyjoy. He then went on to head the Westerosi coalition in the climactic Battle of Myr, which saw the death Asaro Trellos. Unfortunately, Edric had been critically wounded by Asaro, and died in Gendry's arms.

### Later reign

The events of the War of the Narrow Sea left Gendry heartbroken for the rest of his life. Despite eventual pressure from the Small Council, he never remarried, nor did he take another long-term mistress. Gendry's mournful and quiet demeanor earned him the nickname of "**The Silent Storm**".

Despite this, Gendry maintained his relationship with his children, growing particularly close to Lyanna, as she increasingly began to remind him of Arya in her youth.

### *A Dream of Spring:* Epilogue

In 325 AC, Gendry was convinced to conduct a royal progress of the Realm. It was the hope of the Small Council, that Gendry would return to King's Landing with a new queen. Gendry was accompanied by his children; Prince Robert and Princess Lyanna. Shortly after the group arrived in Oldtown, a band of outlaws known as the Whispering Knights, who opposed the new succession laws implemented earlier in Gendry's reign, kidnapped Lyanna.

Upon hearing of this, Gendry and Lord Baelor Hightower sent half the men in Oldtown out to track Lyanna down, but it was Gendry himself who happened upon the location of the princess' imprisonment. Gendry succeeded in freeing Lyanna, and the two attempted to fight their way out. In the process, Gendry was mortally wounded. Lyanna rode off to get help, but Gendry died of his wounds before she could return.

Gendry was succeeded to the Iron Throne by his son Robert, who was proclaimed as King Robert II Baratheon in Oldtown. Lyanna would go on to avenge Gendry's death, when she killed the leader of the Whispering Knights, Loras Redwyne, in a duel atop the Hightower.

## Appearance and personality

Gendry was the mirror image of his father Robert during his youth; tall, muscular and very strong, with blue eyes and dark black hair. His appearance was so similar to Robert, that it was immediately obvious to anyone who knew Robert before his rebellion that Gendry was his son. Unlike his father, Gendry maintained his lean physic well into his later life, even after the events of the War of the Narrow Sea.

Gendry was the polar opposite of Robert's supposed true-born son, Joffrey Baratheon. Joffrey was cruel, sadistic, cowardly, entitled and deeply overcome with his own delusions of grandeur. Gendry, having grown up in the slums of Flea Bottom, was kind, humble, and almost always put others before himself. Gendry was also incredibly brave, never backing down when called to fight, although unlike his father, Gendry did not love fighting, nor war. Even after he became Lord of Storm's End, and later King of the Seven Kingdoms, Gendry maintained his humble demeanor and tended to defer to "his betters", and was always the first to note that he owed his position entirely to the will of his predecessor, Queen Daenerys Targaryen. It was these qualities, combined with Gendry's lowborn background, that made him beloved by the smallfolk of the Seven Kingdoms, on a level not seen since Aegon the Unlikely.

However, during the War of the Narrow Sea, the rashness and fury that ran thick in his bloodline came to the forefront; he made a number of short-sighted decisions driven by anger and rage, including stripping Brienne of Tarth of her white cloak, and declaring Edric Baratheon and Devan Seaworth traitors following their disappearance. Despite this, after Gendry was forced to yield to his brother on Dragonstone, he recognised his poor decisions for what they were, and reconciled with those he had wronged.

Later in his life, Gendry lost much of his warmth and approachable demeanor, as much like his father, he became consumed by grief following to loss of the woman he most loved. However, unlike his father, Gendry never chose to drown his sorrows in food, drink or women, and made an effort to maintain his most important kingly duties, including the raising of his children.

## See also

* Gendry Baratheon on Wiki of Westeros
* Gendry on A Wiki of Ice and Fire