The Iron Fleet, under Euron Greyjoy, sailed for Lannisport and burned the Lannister fleet, which made them unopposed in the Sunset Sea. He led a rebellion against King Robert Baratheon years after the downfall of the Targaryens in Robert's Rebellion. Lord Balon Greyjoy was the founder of the Kingdom of the Iron Islands. The ironborn would never follow a hereditary ruler instead they would choose their own monarchs from the Kingsmoot. Like the vast majority of ironborn, they worship the Drowned God. House Greyjoy boasts descent from the Grey King, a legendary King of the Iron Islands said to have ruled for a thousand years and taken a mermaid as his wife. The head of the house is the Lord Reaper of Pyke. They have always had plans to conquer the mainland, as their ancient tradition of reaving and plundering made them dominant in the waters. The Iron Islands are harsh and bleak and the Greyjoys have traditionally survived by raiding their neighbors. They rule from their castle Pyke from the island of the same name. Their lands are the Iron Islands off the west coast of the continent. House Greyjoy is one of the Great Houses of Westeros. Theon died at the Battle of Winterfell while Euron died at the Battle of King's Landing, leaving Yara firmly as the head and last living member of House Greyjoy. After being set free by Theon, Yara retook the Iron Islands in Daenerys's name. During Daenerys Targaryen's war for Westeros, Euron allied with Cersei of House Lannister, while Yara and her followers allied with Daenerys Targaryen, who Euron originally intended to ally with. Following his assassination and the election of his brother and murderer, Euron, as the new King of the Iron Islands, House Greyjoy was divided between Euron and his followers, and Balon's surviving children, Yara and Theon, and their followers. House Greyjoy bent the knee to Robert Baratheon, and the Kingdom of the Iron Islands became defunct.ĭuring the War of the Five Kings, Balon Greyjoy declared himself King of the Iron Islands and the Iron Islands independent once more, restoring the Kingdom of the Iron Islands and seceding from the Seven Kingdoms. During the Greyjoy Rebellion, Balon Greyjoy declared sovereignty as the Kingdom of the Iron Islands and seceded from the Seven Kingdoms, but the rebellion was put down. During Robert's Rebellion, House Greyjoy declared for House Baratheon. Their house words are "We Do Not Sow," although the phrase "What Is Dead May Never Die" is also closely associated with House Greyjoy and their bannermen, as they are associated with the faith of the Drowned God.įollowing the extinction of House Hoare, the ironborn elected House Greyjoy as Lord of the Iron Islands, an administrative region of the Seven Kingdoms, as vassals to House Targaryen. House Greyjoy's sigil is traditionally a golden kraken on a black field. It rules over the Iron Islands, a harsh and bleak collection of islands off the west coast of Westeros, from the castle at Pyke. House Greyjoy of Pyke is one of the Great Houses of Westeros. We do not plow the field or toil in the mine.
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