Vassals of Vassal Houses

goodqueenaly:

It’s bothered me for a while that there is no centralized resource for all of the Houses sworn not to paramount Houses, but to the Houses themselves sworn to paramount Houses. So, I figured it was time to remedy that, with much help from @racefortheironthrone​.

North

• House Ryswell: The Appendices for both AFFC and ADWD list Roger, Rickard, and Roose Ryswell as Lord Rodrik’s “quarrelsome cousins and bannermen” (though Theon in ADWD notes that Roger, Rickard, and Roose are Rodrik’s sons)
• House Manderly: Wyman Manderly tells Davos in ADWD that his “bannermen include a dozen petty lords and a hundred landed knights”
• Ramsgate and the Sheepshead Hills are definitely sworn to White Harbor, according to the app, but it’s unknown which families control them (though the Woolfields controlling one is a strong possibility, given the name of the family and the fact that a Woolfield is married to the current Manderly heir).
• It’s possible that the Lockes of Oldcastle and the Flints of Widow’s Watch are sworn to the Manderlys, as Wyman alleges he can deliver “all the lands east of the White Knife, from Widow’s Watch and Ramsgate to the Sheepshead Hills and the headwaters of the Broken Branch”.  However, in all relevant appendices the Lockes and this branch of House Flint are listed as primary bannermen of Winterfell, rather than bannermen of the Manderlys; Wyman’s words may only be suggesting his ability to influence his lordly neighbors, rather than a true liege-vassal relationship. 
• House Reed: 
• House Blackmyre (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Boggs (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Cray (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Fenn (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Greengood (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Peat (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Quagg (“Reek II”, ADWD)
• House Glover: 
• House Bole (“The King’s Prize”, ADWD)
• House Branch (“The King’s Prize”, ADWD)
• House Forrester (“The King’s Prize”, ADWD)
• House Woods (“The King’s Prize”, ADWD)

Vale

• House Royce: 
• House Coldwater (AFFC Appendix)
• House Tollett (AFFC Appendix)
• House Shett of Gulltower (AFFC Appendix)
• House Corbray: in “Alayne II”, AFFC, Sansa thinks that “Corbray’s vassals” would be attending the wedding of Lord Lyonel and his Gulltown bride
• House Waynwood: 
• House Hardyng (“Alayne II”, AFFC)
• House Sunderland: 
• House Borrell (AFFC Appendix)
• House Longthorpe (AFFC Appendix)
• House Torrent (AFFC Appendix)

Riverlands

• House Vance of Wayfarer’s Rest: 
• House Smallwood (“Arya IV”, ASOS)
• House Frey
• House Erenford (“Jaime VI”, AFFC)
• House Haigh (“Jaime VI”, AFFC)
• House Charlton (“Jaime VI”, AFFC)
• Harrenhal (presumably applicable for the duration of Harrenhal’s feudal holding)
• House Wode (“Jaime III”, AFFC)
• House Whent (formerly) (“The Riverlands: House Tully”, TWOIAF)

Westerlands

• House Reyne: TWOIAF notes that “Lord Reyne reportedly laughed when his maester read him Ser Tywin’s edicts and counseled his friends and vassals to do nothing”.
• House Tarbeck: TWOIAF notes that “[t]he Lannister host descended so quickly that Lord Walderan’s vassals and supporters had no time to gather”.
• House Farman
• House Clifton (“Jaime VIII”, AFFC)

Reach

• House Rowan
• House Osgrey (“The Sworn Sword”)
• House Webber (“The Sworn Sword”)
• House Tarly
• House Hunt (AFFC Appendix)
• House Hightower
• House Beesbury (AFFC Appendix)
• House Mullendore (AFFC Appendix)
• House Costayne (AFFC Appendix)
• House Bulwer (AFFC Appendix)
• House Cuy (AFFC Appendix)
• House Redwyne
• House Rhysling: speculative. “Rhysling” sounds not unlike “riesling”, which might be a clue that the Rhyslings are in the winemaking business – and the only spot for real winemaking in the Reach is the Arbor.
• House Cupps: speculative. Again, the name suggests a connection to the wine-drinking Arbor, and House Cupps being a vassal of the wealthy and powerful Redwynes might explain why the very powerful Leyton Hightower would allow his daughter Leyla to wed Ser Jon Cupps (especially as Leyla’s sister Denyse wed Ser Desmond Redwyne)

Dorne

• House Yronwood
• House Drinkwater: possibly if not probably. The app says that Gerris Drinkwater is a “knight sworn to Yronwood”, though this porbably only refers to Gerris being a household knight at Yronwood, as Gerris does not seem to be the head of House Drinkwater (since his twin sisters are called daughters, rather than sisters, of a landed knight). The House is not formally noted as a vassal of Yronwood in any Appendix, and only designated as a landed knightly House in the text, but in “The Spurned Suitor” Quentyn Martell thinks that he wants to “go back to Yronwood and kiss both of [Gerris Drinkwater’s] sisters”. This may suggest that the Drinkwater twins live on or near the Yronwood holdings, which would be sensible for daughters of an Yronwood bannerman.  
• House Jordayne (formerly) (“Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships”, TWOIAF)
• House Wyl (formerly) (“Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships”, TWOIAF)
• It’s possible that the Blackmonts and Qorgyles were also at one time Yronwood bannermen; Yandel writes that Nymeria and Mors Martell “struggled against Yronwood and his bannermen (the Jordaynes of the Tor, the Wyls of the Stone Way, together with the Blackmonts, the Qorgyles, and many more)”.
• House Dayne of Starfall
• House Dayne of High Hermitage (AFFC Appendix)

Iron Islands

• House Harlaw
• House Volmark (AFFC Appendix)
• House Myre (AFFC Appendix)
• House Stonetree (AFFC Appendix)
• House Kenning of Harlaw (AFFC Appendix)
• House Harlaw of the Tower of Glimmering (“The Kraken’s Daughter”, AFFC)
• House Harlaw of Grey Garden (“The Kraken’s Daughter”, AFFC)
• House Harlaw of Harlaw Hall (“The Kraken’s Daughter”, AFFC)
• House Harlaw of Harridan Hall (“The Kraken’s Daughter”, AFFC)

Crownlands

• House Hayford
• House Hogg (“Jaime III”, AFFC)

^ Useful knowledge.