In 47 AC, Princess Rhaella Targaryen, the younger daughter of the deceased Prince Aegon Targaryen and Queen Rhaena Targaryen, was sent to Oldtown by King Maegor I Targaryen to be raised as a septa. That same year, Maegor and Ceryse were reunited, and Ceryse eventually returned to King's Landing with her husband, where she remained until her death in 45 AC. In 43 AC, Martyn's brother Ser Morgan was the sole Warrior's Son pardonned by Maegor, following the mysterious death of the High Septon and the yielding of Oldtown by Martyn to the Targaryens. In 41 AC, Lord Martyn Hightower succeeded his father Manfred. After Maegor had left Westeros in exile, and Septon Murmison had failed to make Ceryse fertile, Ceryse returned to the Hightower. Lord Manfred objected to Maegor's second wedding. Maegor took a second bride in 39 AC, claiming that Ceryse was infertile. Īfter the High Septon objected against the suggested match between Prince Maegor Targaryen and Princess Rhaena Targaryen, he suggested instead his own niece as Maegor's bride: Ceryse Hightower, the daughter of Lord Manfred Hightower. Aegon spared the city, and the High Septon anointed him and acknowledged House Targaryen's right to rule all Seven Kingdoms. When Aegon the Conqueror arrived at Oldtown on dragonback, Manfred opened his gates.
Soon, Mern was dead and Highgarden surrendered, with the Tyrells replacing the Gardeners. Targaryen Eraĭuring Aegon's Conquest of the Seven Kingdoms, Lord Manfred Hightower heeded the High Septon and did not join his liege lord, King Mern IX Gardener, on the march to the Field of Fire. Through the centuries of the Kingdom of the Reach, the Peakes and Osgreys boasted about marrying their daughters to Hightowers. The Hightowers were also one of the first great lords to accept the Faith of the Seven and thus gave their patronage to the establishment of the office of High Septon and the building of the Starry Sept as the center of the Faith. Protected by the might of Highgarden, the lords of Oldtown turned their eyes to trade and commerce and grew with every generation to become one of the richest and most powerful noble families in Westeros. Thus they were able to keep their wealth, lands and privileges. Gardener Eraĭuring the Andal invasion, the Hightowers and the Gardeners allied with the newcomers. Lymond the Sea Lion wed the daughter of Garland, while Garland put aside his own wives to marry Lymond's daughter. Oldtown was not brought into the realm of the Gardeners by conquest, but by marriage, during the reigns of King Lymond Hightower and King Garland II Gardener. The Kings of the High Tower raised strong walls and higher towers to keep any further invaders out. ĭuring these early days Oldtown was threatened and sacked many times, including by ironborn raiders, Dornishmen, and the armies of the Kings of the Reach, House Gardener of Highgarden. Uthor's sons, King Urrigon and Prince Peremore the Twisted, were integral in the foundation of the Citadel. The legendary King Uthor of the High Tower is said to have commissioned Bran the Builder or his son Brandon to design the fifth tower, one built entirely of stone. The Hightowers built four successive wooden beacon towers atop the fortress. Whatever the truth, the Hightowers resided in the ancient black stone fortress of Battle Isle at the mouth of the Honeywine before the "Hightower" of stone was built. While most scholars believe they descend from the First Men, Maester Yandel posits they descend from the seafarers and traders that settled at the top of the Whispering Sound in an earlier time, men who came to Westeros before the First Men and seem to have founded the original incarnation of Oldtown. The family is ancient, existing since the dawn of days when they were petty-kings. Members of House Hightower thus far described tend to have silver or golden hair. Some Hightowers are said to have dabbled in alchemy and necromancy. 4 House Hightower at the end of the third century.The Hightowers can be legitimately referred to as being either "of Hightower" or "of Oldtown". They have often preferred trade instead of war, and have also avoided many wars because of their support for the Faith of the Seven. The Hightowers are among the oldest and proudest of the Great Houses. They possess a Valyrian steel sword called Vigilance. The sigil of House Hightower is a stone white watchtower, with a fire on the top. Their seat is the Hightower, located in the city of Oldtown.
House Hightower of the Hightower is one of the most powerful of the noble houses in the Reach.
(Cendrée, a tower argent, beacon inflamed gules) A white tower crowned with flames on smoke grey
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