History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseGardener

* ManipulativeBastard : His diplomatic and political talents were such that he was not only able of breaking an alliance between House Lannister and Durrandon formed against the Reach down, but even caused them
to war against each other instead.

* TheAce: Is considered to be the best king the Reach ever had, and perhaps the best king to ever live in Westeros, for excellent reasons. Not only he was a great war leader who took back the Shield Islands for good and secured the Reach borders against dornish, westermen and stormlanders invasions, but he was also an extraordinary politician and diplomat who ended the Westerlands-Stormlands alliance against the Reach before making a long-lasting peace with them and bringing a golden age of peace and prosperity to his kingdom and people.

* ManipulativeBastard : His diplomatic and political talents were such that he was not only able of breaking an alliance between house Lannister and Durrandon formed against the Reach down, but even caused them

* FlowersInHerHair: The Kings of House Gardener wore a CoolCrown of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war.

!!King Garth I Gardener

* DecompositeCharacter: While the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' novels implies he was Garth Greenhand, in ''TheWorldOfIceAndFire'' it is revealed he's Garth Greenhand's firstborn.

* FrontlineGeneral: At the Field of Fire, he insisted upon commanding the center of the combined Reach-Westerlands army, and led the charge against Aegon's army alongside his kin. This merely put them in prime position to be killed by dragonfire when Aegon and his sister sprang their trap.

* KingBobTheNth: There were at least twelve Gardener kings named Garth and seven named Garse.

* {{Expy}}: Has some similarities to [[Literature/KingLear ''King Lear]], being an old and foolish King who enjoys being flattered, has no sons but daughters, and whose mismanagement of the succession leads to a civil war.

* LesCollaborateurs: The Gardeners initially tried shoring up the Reach's defenses against the Andals but eventually took a policy of accord and assimilation instead of armed resistance.

!!This is a listing members of House Gardener that appear in the {{Fantasy}} series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' and it's supplemental materials. Visit [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFire here]] for the main character index.

* CoolChair: The throne of the Gardener kings, the Oakenseat. LostForever after Highgarden was sacked.

* {{Badass}}: In the few times he did go to war, he utterly trounced his opponents. He defeated King Ferris Fowler's attempt to invade from Dorne, drove the last of the Ironborn from the Shield Islands, and divided an alliance between the Storm King and the King of the Rock before defeating both in battle and dictating the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.

* AlliterativeName

* InUniverseNickname: Garth the Gardener.
* [[RealMenWearPink Real Men Wear Crowns Of Flowers]]

* AChildShallLeadThem: He was twelve when he ascended to the Oakenseat, and still only a boy when he thwarted a attempted Dornish invasion.
* {{Badass}}: In the few times he did go to war, he utterly trounced his opponents. He defeated King Ferris Fowler's attempt to invade from Dorne, drove the last of the Ironborn from the Shield Islands, and divided an alliance between the Storm King and King of the Rock before defeating both in battle and dictating the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.

* RuleOfSeven: The seventh King Garth proved to be there greatest.

* SuccessionCrisis: Only had daughters. Two married into the Peakes and Manderlys and each family were determined to become the next royal family.

* FrontlineGeneral: At the Field of Fire, he insisted upon commanding the center of the combined Reach-Westerlands army, and led the charge against Aegon's army alongside his kin. This merely put them in prime position to be killed by dragonfire when Aegon and his sister spring their trap.

* LesCollaborateurs: The Three Sage Kings (Garth IX, Merle I and Gwayne V) took a policy of accord and assimilation instead of armed resistance against the Andals.

* KillItWithFire: He was burned to death alongside all of his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other male relatives.

* AChildShallLeadThem: Garland VI was a child when he became king so a member Tyrell ruled in his name as Regent.

* DecompositeCharacter: While the ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' novels implies he was Garth Greenhand, in ''TheWorldOfIceAndFire'' it is revealed he's Garth Greenhand's firstborn.

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* LargeAndInCharge: John II "the Tall".

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gyles II's corpse cut into small pieces to bait the Ironborn's fishhooks with "a chunk of king".

* RedBaron: Garth V was called the" Hammer of the Dornish".

* AdiposeRex: Gwayne III "the Fat".

Their seat was Highgarden, where many Gardener kings sat upon a living throne called the Oakenseat that grew from an oak that the mythical Garth Greenhand himself was reputedly said to have planted. The Kings of House Gardener wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war. Their blazon was a green hand over a white field, which inspired the chivalric Order of the Green Hand.

** Garth III, called "the Great", expanded the borders of the Reach northward.
** Gyles I, called "the Woe", reportedly sold three quarters of Oldtown's population into slavery.

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!!King Garth VII Gardener
!!!Garth Goldenhand
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The greatest of the Gardener kings, Goldenhand ruled for eighty-one years, of which less than ten were spent at war. His rule was known as [[GoldenAge The Golden Reign]], a prosperous time for the Reach.

* AChildShallLeadThem: He was twelve when he ascended to the Oakenseat, and still only a boy when he thwarted a attempted Dornish invasion.
* {{Badass}}: In the few times he did go to war, he utterly trounced his opponents. He defeated King Ferris Fowler's attempt to invade from Dorne, drove the last of the Ironborn from the Shield Islands, and divided an alliance between the Storm King and King of the Rock before defeating both in battle and dictating the boundaries of their three kingdoms in the aftermath.
* TheGoodKing: Perhaps the best one to have lived in Westeros: his main priority was keeping the peace and allowing for whole generations of Reachmen to live and die without having to go to war.
* LongLived: He died at the age of ninety-three, and was still of sound mind when he passed.
* RuleOfSeven: The seventh King Garth proved to be there greatest.

!!King Garth X Gardener
!!!Garth Greybeard

King Garth X Gardener, called Garth Greybeard, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. During his long reign House Gardener reached the nadir of its power.

* BodyguardBetrayal: Possibly a victim of this since the Dornish found him tied up in his bed.
* BringMyBrownPants: Soiled himself during the sack of Highgarden.
* MercyKill: So the Dornish claim.
* SuccessionCrisis: Only had daughters. Two married into the Peakes and Manderlys and each family were determined to become the next royal family.
* UpperClassTwit: Garth X was neither wise nor clever, became vain and frivolous, surrounded himself with fools and flatterers, and lost his wits entirely in old age.

!!King Mern IX Gardener
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The last King of the Reach, he was killed along with his sons Edmund and Gawen, along with their other kin, at the Field of Fire.