WARNING! This text incorporates SPOILERS for George R.R. Martin’s The World of Ice & Hearth e-book & potential future tales for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms!
Sport of Thrones‘ expansive household bushes have led to some confusion through the years attributable to some ambiguity in sure generations, with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘ Lyonel being a key character whose precise relationships to different Baratheons have wanted extra readability.
Since Lyonel debuted in George R.R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight novella in 1998 and later had extra of the Baratheon lineage addressed in 2014’s The World of Ice & Hearth e-book, there’s by no means been an express affirmation of whether or not King Robert Baratheon and his brothers are direct descendants of Lyonel. Whereas Robert, Stannis, and Renly’s grandfather, Ormund Baratheon, ultimately succeeded Lyonel as Lord of Storm’s Finish, it wasn’t confirmed whether or not Ormund was Lyonel’s son or just a nephew or different male family member subsequent in line to inherit the noble seat.
In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley after A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1’s ending, Lyonel Baratheon actor Daniel Ings addressed whether or not he had gotten any extra readability about how precisely Lyonel is said to Robert, Stannis, and Renly from the unique Sport of Thrones sequence. Although Ings did not seem to get a affirmation from Martin himself, the actor said that his understanding of their relationship is that Robert, Stannis, and Renly are instantly descended from Lyonel:
Liam Crowley: Have you ever gotten any type of readability from George R. R. Martin when it comes to the place Lyonel suits within the Baratheon household tree, so to talk? As a result of it’s a little bit ambiguous within the novellas.
Daniel Ings: I am fairly positive, and I might have this mistaken, however I do know that there’s a storyline for individuals who are conscious of the legislation of what comes after the occasions of those novellas, that there’s a little one born of Lyonel Baratheon and Egg, I imagine, who then is, I suppose, a grandparent to Robert, Stannis, and Renly.
Per George R.R. Martin’s books, the descendant that will first tie Lyonel and Egg instantly collectively is Steffon Baratheon, who is definitely the daddy of Robert, Stannis, and Renly. Steffon is the son of Ormund Baratheon and Rhaelle Targaryen, the daughter of the longer term King Aegon V “Egg” Targaryen. With Ings’ understanding being that Steffon is “born of” each Lyonel and Egg’s direct strains, that will suggest that Ormund is, certainly, Lyonel’s son.
In fact, Martin himself would wish to make the excellence for it to be canon inside the books, and Ings admitting that he “might have this mistaken” signifies that interpretation is not essentially reality for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or the bigger Sport of Thrones TV universe. In fact, the TV universe itself has already created some contradictions in regard to the Baratheons based mostly on the prop Lineages and Histories of the Nice Homes of the Seven Kingdoms e-book in Sport of Thrones season 1.
When Ned Stark is searching for proof that Cersei Lannister’s youngsters are usually not Robert Baratheon’s in season 1, he appears by way of mentioned e-book and finds that every Baratheon entry notes them being “black of hair.” Briefly, a couple of pages within the Baratheon lineage could be seen, which declare that Lyonel Baratheon was born in 204 AC (5 years earlier than A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1’s timeline), marries Rhaelle Targaryen himself, and is Robert’s grandfather.
Given Lyonel Baratheon just isn’t introduced as a five-year-old little one in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1, the lineage introduced within the Sport of Thrones prop e-book is not correct to the prequel sequence’ interpretation of the Baratheon household tree. The extra probably reply is that Lyonel is the daddy of Ormund, the great-grandfather of Robert, Stannis, and Renly, and, subsequently, the great-great-grandfather of Sport of Thrones‘ fan-favorite character Gendry Baratheon.
Because the Sport of Thrones TV universe is not all the time fully trustworthy to the lineages introduced within the books, showrunner Ira Parker could possibly clear up the confusion separate from the e-book canon. For example, previous to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO’s Sport of Thrones sequence notably left out a technology of Home Targaryen’s household tree by making Aegon V the daddy of The Mad King Aerys slightly than Jaehaerys II, who’s Egg’s son within the books however was reduce from the present.
Nonetheless, since Lyonel Baratheon could not return in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘ solid of characters for season 2, it is likely to be a while earlier than the prequel finds an event to explicitly state whether or not Ormund is his son or not. Nonetheless, even when A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms would not attain the purpose of Lyonel and Egg’s quick descendants marrying, their story remains to be removed from over after season 1’s finale.