Well, when Richard I was captured outside Vienna in 1192 and ransomed by the Holy Roman Emperor, his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine organized the payment of the ransom, and contributed not only from her own income but also taxed both clergy and laity to come up with the money. (In one of my favorite moments of Angevin disfunctionality, his brother John offered half of the ransom if the Emperor would keep him in prison.)
Hi! I have a general history question, as I don’t think it think it happened in ASoIaF: if a reigning monarch was captured (in a battle, for example), who would pay ransom for him? His direct family, other Important People of the land? Or perhaps he himself (because I know it was common to let noble people go and collect their own ransom money if they swore on their honor to go back)? What if, hypothetically, he had no living family left? Random nobles would bail him out expecting future favor?
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