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This page is about the knight. For the king, see: Robar II Royce
House Royce
Kingsguard

Ser Robar Royce[b] was a knight of House Royce and a member of the Kingsguard to King Renly Baratheon.

Biography[]

Background[]

Robar Royce is a knight of House Royce, a proud and ancient noble family of the Vale of Arryn, and a son of Lord Yohn Royce, the Lord of Runestone. At the onset of the War of the Five Kings, he pledged his allegiance to Renly Baratheon.[citation needed]

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. The camp is beset by strong winds. At night, Catelyn meets with Renly in his command tent.[1]

Brienne kills

Brienne kills Robar Royce.

Ser Robar and his sworn brother, Ser Emmon Cuy, 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. They threaten her life. Catelyn tries to intervene, but they push her aside. Brienne fights them off, killing both.[1]

Family[]

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Deceased
 

In the books[]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Ser Robar Royce is a member of Renly's Rainbow Guard as "Robar the Red", the second son of Lord Yohn Royce of Runestone after Ser Andar Royce and older brother of Waymar Royce of the Night's Watch. He is first seen in King's Landing at the Tourney of the Hand with his father and Ser Andar where he wears steel armor with ancient bronze runes that are supposed to have mystical powers of protection. He unhorses freerider Lothor Brune, but is then defeated by Ser Loras Tyrell.

When Eddard sends Beric Dondarrion after Ser Gregor Clegane, who is terrorizing the Riverlands, Ser Robar is sent to the kingswood to inform Robert, who is hunting with others, including Yohn Royce. Ser Robar and his father return to King's Landing from the hunt before Robert's fatal encounter with the boar.

In Renly's camp, he tells Catelyn as he escorts her to the sept that the reason that he had joined Renly was to seek the glory he would never find as the second son of a noble house and he was weary of being in tournaments. Catelyn guesses him to be about 21 years old. When Renly names him to his Rainbow Guard he names him the red knight Robar the Red. At the feast at Bitterbridge, Ser Bryce Caron dares him to juggle daggers.

When Renly is murdered, Brienne's scream causes Ser Robar and Ser Emmon Cuy and two guards to rush into the tent. They arrive just after Renly's death to find Brienne bending over his body and covered in his blood. Cuy blames Brienne for the death, then he and the other two guards attack her. Catelyn convinces Robar that Brienne is innocent. He tells Catelyn to get her away and he fights off the men-at-arms that follow Cuy, while Catelyn uses an iron brazier to knock Cuy unconscious, then she and Brienne escape. Ser Robar and Ser Emmon are subsequently killed in a fit of rage by their Lord Commander Loras, for their failure to protect their king.

In A Storm of Swords, when Loras escorts Sansa to meet his sister and grandmother, Sansa mentions the tourney in which he unhorsed Ser Robar. Loras sadly responds "I slew Robar at Storm's End."

Later, after Jaime makes Loras realize that Brienne did not kill Renly, he is filled with remorse, realizing that Robar and Emmon were innocent, too.

Appearances[]

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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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