House Frey
House Frey of the Twins is a large and ambitious noble House of the Riverlands, sworn to House Tully of Riverrun. Their sigil is two blue towers united by a bridge on a silver-grey field. House Frey holds no famous words in the histories, but their power flows from a single, jealously guarded asset: they command the Twins, the only bridge across the Green Fork of the Trident for hundreds of miles, and they exact a heavy toll from all who cross.
The Freys are reckoned a comparatively young House by the standards of the great families -- only some six centuries old -- and the older lords of the realm look down on them as upstart toll-collectors. Yet their wealth and their crossing make them indispensable in war, and their patriarch has made the most of it.
History
Walder Frey, the Lord of the Crossing, is a hard, grasping, and immensely fertile old man with a brood of sons, daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren beyond counting. When Robb Stark marched south in the War of the Five Kings, he could not cross the Green Fork without Lord Walder's leave, and bought it with a promise: that Robb would wed one of Walder's daughters. When Robb broke that vow to wed another, Walder nursed the insult.
The Freys took their revenge in conspiracy with Roose Bolton and Tywin Lannister. Under the sacred protection of guest right, at a wedding feast that became the Red Wedding, the Freys slaughtered Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, and his bannermen -- an act of betrayal that the entire realm came to abhor.
Notable Members
- Walder Frey, Lord of the Crossing, called the Late Lord Frey
- Black Walder Frey and Lothar Frey, among the sons who plotted the Red Wedding
- Roslin Frey, the bride whose wedding masked the massacre
Significance
The Freys gain the lordship of Riverrun and a measure of Lannister favor for their treachery, but they earn the lasting hatred of the realm. Guest right is among the most sacred customs of Westeros, and in breaking it the Freys make themselves accursed in the eyes of gods and men alike.