House Baratheon of King's Landing

* Since 305 AC, 281-298 AC
* 298-303 AC

The crowned stag of Baratheon black on gold and the lion of Lannister golden on red (during the War of the Five Kings)

### Titles

Kings of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men
Lords of the Seven Kingdoms
Protectors of the Realm
Princes of Whitehearth
Lords of Storm's End (claimant, during the War of the Five Kings)
Lords Paramount of the Stormlands (claimant, during the War of the Five Kings)

### Vassals

**Great Houses:**
House Arryn
House Baratheon of Storm's End
House Harlaw
House Hightower
House Lannister
House Martell
House Stark
House Tully
House Bolton (formerly)
House Frey (formerly)
House Greyjoy (formerly)
House Tyrell (formerly)

**Crownlands:**
House Bar Emmon
House Blount
House Brune
House Celtigar
House Chelsted
House Gaunt
House Massey
House Rosby
House Rykker
House Staunton
House Stokeworth
House Sunglass
House Thorne
House Velaryon
House Baratheon of Dragonstone (formerly)
House Slynt (formerly)

### Ancestral weapon

Robert's Warhammer
Blackfyre
Valyrian steel dagger
Widow's Wail (formerly)

"*You are Gendry Baratheon. Lord of Storm's End. Warden of the South. And heir to the Iron Throne - until a child is born to me.*"
―Daenerys Targaryen legitimising Gendry Baratheon and naming him as her heir presumptive
**House Baratheon of King's Landing** is a cadet branch of House Baratheon of Storm's End and the current royal House of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, ruling from its seat of the Red Keep, located within the capital city of King's Landing. Their sigil is a crowned black stag salient on a gold field, and their House words are "Ours is the Fury".

## History

### Founding

The cadet branch was initially founded by King Robert Baratheon in 281 AC following his victory over House Targaryen during Robert's Rebellion. He awarded his old titles from before he became king to his youngest brother, Renly Baratheon, making him the head of the old House Baratheon of Storm's End.

### War of the Five Kings

Following Robert's death and the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings, House Baratheon of King's Landing effectively became a puppet house of House Lannister with the succession of Joffrey Baratheon, as all three of Robert's supposed children, including Tommen, Myrcella, and Joffrey himself, were in fact bastards sired by Jaime Lannister. In an ironic reflection of this, Joffrey changed the branch's sigil to a split combination of the Baratheon and Lannister sigils.

Following the suicide of King Tommen Baratheon, House Baratheon of King's Landing, as well as House Baratheon as a whole, was rendered extinct. Tommen's mother, Cersei Lannister, subsequently assumed the Iron Throne.

### Great War

None-the-less, House Baratheon was re-established in 305 AC when one of Robert's bastards, Gendry, was legitimised by Queen Daenerys Targaryen as Gendry Baratheon and granted House Baratheon's traditional titles from before Robert's Rebellion. In addition, as Gendry was her closest living relative (not withstanding Jon Snow, who Daenerys perceived as a threat to her legitimacy), she named him her heir presumptive.

Following Daenerys's death during the Great War, House Baratheon of King's Landing was refounded once more in much the same fashion as Robert did a generation earlier. The now-King Gendry himself legitimised his younger bastard brother Edric Storm as Edric Baratheon, and granted him House Baratheon's traditional lands and titles in the Stormlands.

### Further rule

In 350 AC, the title of Prince of Whitehearth was created by King Robert II Baratheon and awarded to his heir, Prince Steffon Baratheon. The castle of Whitehearth, completed that same year, continues to serve as the seat of the heir apparent to the Iron Throne, occupying a similar position to Dragonstone during the Targaryen dynasty.

As of 461 AC, House Baratheon of King's Landing has fractured into three competing factions, all vying for the Iron Throne, in a succession crisis that has become known as the Black Succession.

## See also

* House Baratheon of King's Landing on Wiki of Westeros
* House Baratheon of King's Landing on A Wiki of Ice and Fire