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|place = [[Winterfell]] |
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|result = Decisive [[House Bolton]] victory<br/>Death of Stannis Baratheon<br/>Extinction of [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone]] |
|result = Decisive [[House Bolton]] victory<br/>Death of Stannis Baratheon<br/>Extinction of [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone]] |
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|commanders1 = Lord [[Roose Bolton]]<br>[[Ramsay Bolton]] |
|commanders1 = Lord [[Roose Bolton]]<br>[[Ramsay Bolton]] |
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|commanders2 = King [[Stannis Baratheon]] † |
|commanders2 = King [[Stannis Baratheon]] † |
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Revision as of 14:44, 15 June 2015
Template:Battle The Battle of Winterfell is a battle late in the War of the Five Kings.
As part of Stannis Baratheon's continued attempt to seize the Iron Throne of Westeros, he tried to rally the North to his side by capturing Winterfell, the former castle of House Stark and the current seat of House Bolton, the Lannister-backed Wardens of the North. However, the arrival of a large snowstorm delayed Stannis's campaign and Ramsay Bolton's raid of his camp forced him to resort to sacrificial magic to end the snowstorm and thaw the deep snow blocking the path to the castle.
However, the use of magic and the hardhips of the campaign broke the moral of Stannis's army, specifically his hired sellswords who deserted with all his horses. Pressing towards Winterfell on foot, Stannis intended to mount a siege against the castle, but the Boltons marched out with a much larger mounted army and defeated Stannis, resulting in him being killed by a vengeful Brienne of Tarth in a nearby forest shortly afterwards.[1]