House Tyrell of King's Landing

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**House Tyrell of King's Landing** is the royal line of **House Tyrell of Highgarden**. It was founded with the union of Willas Tyrell, at the time heir to Highgarden and Myrcella I Baratheon, who had been named Lady of the Seven Kingdoms after the Great Council of 300 AC.

## Appearance and Traits

Members of the family tend to have curly brown hair and brown eyes.

## History

Unlike most other Great Houses, the Tyrells never ruled as kings. Instead, they trace their line of descent through the female line to the legendary Garth the Gardener, the mythical first King of the Reach reigning in the Age of Heroes, and the son of the equally mythic Garth Greenhand. Members of House Gardener, the ruling house of the Kingdom of the Reach, periodically intermarried with lower ranking houses of the Reach such as House Tyrell.

The Tyrells served as stewards to House Gardener. Ser Alester Tyrell, the founder of the house, was an Andal knight and adventurer who showed such prowess at arms that he was named the champion and sworn shield of King Gwayne V Gardener, the last of the Three Sage Kings. Ser Alester's eldest son also became a notable knight, but died in a tourney. Alester's second son, Gareth, was of a more bookish bent and never achieved knighthood, choosing instead to serve as a royal steward. He and his son Leo performed their duties so well, the Gardeners made the office of High Steward hereditary. It is from Gareth that today’s Tyrells descend.

During the minority of King Garland VI Gardener, a member of House Tyrell ruled the Reach in his name as Regent.

When Lords Manderly and Peake instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King Garth X Gardener, succeed as Queen of the Reach, Ser Osmund Tyrell, the High Steward of Highgarden, led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaimed the ruins of Highgarden which had been sacked by a Dornish king and his raiders. Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X, who has been killed by the raiders, upon the new throne as King Mern VI Gardener.

Relying on the able counsel of Ser Osmund, and later Osmund's son Ser Robert Tyrell, and finally Robert's son Lorent Tyrell, King Mern ruled well, rebuilding Highgarden and doing much and more to restore the power of the Reach and House Gardener.

Mern VI was so pleased with them that he gave Ser Robert the hand of his youngest daughter in marriage, thereby allowing the following generations of Tyrells to claim decent from Garth Greenhand. That was the first marriage between the two houses, and nine more unions followed in the passing centuries.

### Targaryen Era

Following the defeat and death of King Mern IX Gardener and his other kin at the Field of Fire during Aegon's Conquest, Harlen Tyrell, hereditary high steward of the Reach, surrendered Highgarden to Aegon the Conqueror. As a reward, Harlen was granted the castle along with dominion of the Reach as Lord Paramount of the Mander. As Wardens of the South they frequently warred with the Dornishmen, who remained independent. Harlen disappeared in the Dornish sands during the First Dornish War.

### Robert's Rebellion

During Robert's Rebellion, House Tyrell stayed loyal to King Aerys II Targaryen. Lord Mace Tyrell's forces achieved victory against Lord Robert Baratheon at the Battle of Ashford. Mace likes to take credit for the success, but it was the van under command of Lord Randyll Tarly that put Robert to flight. Mace's cousin, Ser Quentin Tyrell, died in the battle. Mace went on to besiege Storm's End for almost a year. He bent the knee to Lord Eddard Stark after King Aerys II Targaryen had been killed in the Sack of King's Landing. The new King Robert I Baratheon accepted the Tyrells back into the king's peace.

### Great Council of 300 - 301 AC

Following the death of King Tommen I in a riot, Hand of the King Mace Tyrell called a Great Council, which elected **Myrcella I Baratheon** as the Lady of the Seven Kingdoms. A regency council, made up of Mace Tyrell, Randyll Tarly, Nestor Royce, Petyr Baelish, and Ser Jaime Lannister, was established to rule until Myrcella came of age. **Aegon Targaryen**, claimant to the Iron Throne, who also put his name forward during the council, was forced to call off his conquest and flee to Essos with the remnants of the Golden Company.

## Recent Events

The Great Council that put Myrcella into power not only ensured the continuity of Robert Baratheon’s line, but placed the Tyrells in a position that any house in the Seven Kingdoms envied. After negotiations and dealings that secured the princess’ ascension, the Tyrells latched onto her and placed themselves at the head of her regency council and subsequently betrothed her to Willas Tyrell. This marked a dynastic shift, as their children would take on the Tyrell name instead of Baratheon.

After a long and prosperous reign as both Lord of Highgarden and King-Consort to Queen Myrcella, Willas Tyrell passed away, leaving his son Tommen to take on the lordship of Highgarden. Though he wasn’t Warden of the South like his Tyrell forefathers, upon the death of his mother twelve years later, his Lord Paramountcy was joined by the title that had awaited him since his birth; Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.

Tommen II was the first Tyrell king to rule Westeros, and to further the dynastic ambitions laid out by his predecessors, he abolished the lordship of Highgarden and named his son, Alester, the Prince of Highgarden - formalizing the integration of the Reach and the Crownlands into a single royal dominion. The House of Tyrell brought forth an era of peace and bounty, and King Tommen enjoyed his reign at its apex.