Only House Lannister has a line that goes back that long. Their house had offshoots, including the Greystarks and the Karstarks, who became bannermen to their leadership.

Note the different spelling. They also fought back several wildling invasions with the help of House Umber, fought with House Arryn over the Three Sisters Islands, before the Targaryens came.

They even had a fleet that challenged the Ironborn. He bent the knee to Aegon I Targaryen, one of the first to do so.

He got to keep the entire area as his Wardenship, and the Targaryens basically left them alone. The only House that rivals Stark in having their history fleshed out.

The Targaryens were late to the party, arriving on Westeros to conquer in 2BC, just over years after the Doom of Valyria killed off every other Valyrian house and dragon in existence except theirs.

Prior to the Doom, the Targaryens had actually been a very small House in Valyrian society. Things were different in Westeros.

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Hättest Du's gewusst? The Starks have traditionally been friends of the Night's Watch. The Starks hold the belief that there must always be a Stark in Winterfell.

The Starks are an ancient house of First Men descent. Bran the Builder is said to have raised Winterfell , the seat of the Starks, and the Wall , [39] and other legends connect him with Storm's End [40] and the Hightower.

The Night's King , the attainted thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch , has been suggested to have been a Stark, among other possibilities.

The ancient Starks gradually defeated rival kings, such as the Barrow Kings to their south and the Red Kings to their east. Their primary antagonists, the Red Kings from House Bolton of the Dreadfort , swore fealty some thousand years ago, ending their flaying ways.

This stronghold was often granted to sons and grandsons of the King in the North; one such branch, the Greystarks , was extinguished after allying with the Boltons against the Starks.

There he took revenge by sacking and putting hundreds to death. It is said that he did so by winning a wrestling match, though some scholars doubt the truth of this tale.

Thousands of years before Aegon's Conquest , [28] King Brandon the Shipwright attempted to sail across the Sunset Sea , but never returned back home.

His son, also named Brandon , burned the northern shipyards in his grief. This conflict, the War Across the Water , lasted for a thousand years, during which time the Starks thrice landed on the Fingers.

As a reward, he was granted lands on which he built a keep named Karl's Hold. Over time, the keep became known as Karhold and Karlon's descendants became House Karstark.

The Starks helped repel several major wildling invasions, such as when they and their Umber bannermen defeated the brother Kings-Beyond-the-Wall Gendel and Gorne three thousand years ago.

Bael was later slain by his own son, who was unaware of the fact that Bael was his father. Some spoke of rebelling and raising the Stark banner, [57] but it is unknown whether a rebellion took place.

Alaric was cold to King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and blame him for Walton's death, as the king had once spared the lives of the rebels before they mutinied.

Gyldayn claims that the charming Alysanne convinced Alaric to donate the lord. As such, it was said at the time that the Starks were bitter about having been forced to part with the land, and Yandel believes that this might have been the reason why Lord Ellard Stark supported the claim of Laenor Velaryon over the claim of Prince Viserys Targaryen during the Great Council of AC.

He arrived after King Aegon II Targaryen had been poisoned, however, and though he had hoped to punish those lords who had supported the late king, Corlys Velaryon , Lord of the Tides , had already sent out ravens suing for peace.

While the court awaited replies, Cregan held sway and arrested all those involved in Aegon II's death, as he objected to the murder of a king.

Lord Stark held trials for twenty-one out of twenty-two of his prisoners, with Corlys the only one spared a trial.

Cregan returned north the next day. He died during one of the final battles outside of Sunspear. Lord Rickard Stark , urged on by his maester , Walys , allegedly sought to further southron alliances.

There, Eddard befriended fellow ward Robert Baratheon. After winning the jousting competition at the tourney, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen crowned Lyanna as his queen of love and beauty , passing over his own wife, Princess Elia Martell.

Petyr Baelish , Lord Hoster's ward, had been in love with Catelyn for years, and challenged Brandon to a duel for Catelyn's hand.

Brandon won. Rickard, who had been on his way to Riverrun with the wedding party, was summoned to court to answer for Brandon's crime. Brandon and Rickard were executed by Aerys II; Rickard was burned alive, while Brandon strangled himself in his attempt to rescue his father.

The Lord of the Eyrie refused, however, and raised his banners in revolt. Eddard made an arduous journey through the Mountains of the Moon and the Bite to call his banners in the north.

One of the principal commanders in the war, Eddard took command of the rebel army after the Battle of the Trident , following the remnants of Rhaegar's army to King's Landing.

Eddard rode south the next day to relieve the siege of Storm's End. After Storm's End, Eddard and six companions went to retrieve Lyanna at the building Rhaegar had named the tower of joy , finding it defended by three knights of the Kingsguard.

Eddard and Howland Reed were the only survivors of the ensuing combat at the tower of joy. Eddard and Robert were reconciled in their shared grief over Lyanna's death.

Eddard returned from the war with his bastard son, Jon Snow , [31] said to have been birthed by Wylla , [81] and Ned was presented with his trueborn son, Robb , by Catelyn when she arrived from Riverrun.

Ned buried Lyanna's body in the crypt of Winterfell beside her father and brother. Eddard rides to King's Landing along with his daughters, Sansa and Arya , while Catelyn remains at Winterfell with their sons.

Explosive scenes teased in Game of Thrones s7 e2 trailer Game of Thrones might have finished last year on a controversial note but some fans want to know about the family trees between the great houses.

Here's a look at the family trees and lineage of the houses. Warning — spoilers for Game of Thrones season 7, episode 7 ahead.

The reveal had an uncomfortable edge, as it came at the same time as an oblivious Jon went to bed with Daenerys — his paternal aunt.

Neither Jon or Daenerys knew at the time they were related. Season eight, which aired back in , saw Jon reveal the truth to his aunt after finding out from Sam the familial link.

But how exactly are the two houses related? Here is a look at the family trees for House Stark, House Targaryen and more.