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Kingsguard

"You'll die for this!"
―Emmon to Brienne of Tarth[src]

Ser Emmon Cuy[b] was a knight and member of the Kingsguard to King Renly Baratheon.

Biography[]

Game of Thrones: Season 2[]

Renly's camp is a hive of activity as his troops prepare for the coming battle with the forces of Stannis in darkness. The camp is beset by strong winds. Catelyn meets with Renly in his command tent. Ser Emmon and his sworn brother Ser Robar Royce are outside while Brienne stands watch inside the tent. Hearing Brienne scream the guards rush into the tent with swords in hand. They see Brienne kneeling over Renly's corpse and assume that she is responsible. The two knights threaten her life. Catelyn tries to intervene but they push her aside. Brienne fights both of them off, killing them.[1]

In the books[]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Ser Emmon Cuy is a member of the Rainbow Guard as "Emmon the Yellow" and hails from House Cuy of Sunflower Hall, a noble house from the Reach.

Unlike in the episode, he, Robar Royce, and two guards enter Renly's tent just after his assassination. Cuy blames Brienne for the death and attacks her. One of the guards tries to burn her using a flaming torch, but her cloak is too soaked with blood to burn. Brienne cuts the guard's hand, fights Cuy and the remaining guard, and apparently kills the latter. Catelyn convinces Robar that Brienne is innocent and he fights off the men-at-arms that follow Cuy, while Catelyn uses an iron brazier to knock Emmon Cuy unconscious, then she and Brienne escape. Ser Emmon and Ser Robar are later killed by Loras Tyrell in a fit of rage, because of their failure to protect Renly and allowing Brienne to escape. As he lay dying, Ser Emmon swears it was Brienne that killed Renly, and thus the rumors of this follow her.

Later, after Jaime makes Loras realize that Brienne did not kill Renly, he is filled with deep remorse for killing Cuy and Royce, realizing they were innocent, too.

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Notes[]

  1. In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 2 in 299 AC.
  2. Conjecture based on information from A Song of Ice and Fire; may be subject to change.

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