History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseTyrell

An uncle of Lord Mace and Lord Seneschal of Highgarden. His older brother was Lord Luthor Tyrell, while his two younger brothers are Ser Moryn and Maester Gormon.

[[folder: Lady Olenna Redwyne]]
!!Lady Olenna Redwyne, the Queen of Thorns

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Lord Mace Tyrell fancies himself a skilled general and cunning politician. All of his military victories were won by Randyll Tarly and it quickly becomes clear that Olenna is the true political brain of the family.
* MilesGloriosus: Mace Tyrell likes to take credit for military victories (most of which were won by Randyll Tarly; his own mother notes that he is an incompetent fighter).

* PapaWolf: Mace Tyrell, as for all his faults he does clearly love his children and will do anything to defend them from others. He hates Oberyn Martell for crippling his son Willas, and he wants [[spoiler:the falsely accused Tyrion]] dead because Mace believes his daughter could have been collateral damage in [[spoiler:Joffrey's assassination]]. ''A Dance with Dragons'', [[spoiler:after learning about Margaery's imprisonment, he lifts the siege of Storm's End and brings his and Lord Tarly's armies to King's Landing, successfully intimidating the High Septon into allowing Margaery to go free until her trial. Cersei's plans hinged on him not doing this.]]
* [[StageMom Stage Dad]]: Lord Mace pushed Willas into entering a tourney he wasn't ready for. Between this, the Red Viper and sheer fate, Willas became crippled. Despite this, Willas is reportedly not bitter, and has become pen-pals with Oberyn.

!!!Other Tyrells

* {{Badass}}: Loras and Garlan are two of the deadliest knights in the kingdom. Olenna is one too for a certain value, being one of the most skilled plotters in the kingdom.

* FamousAncestor:
** Leo Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden in 208 AL, was a renowned jouster and fighter and was known as Leo Longthron.

An uncle of Lord Mace and Lord Seneschal of Highgarden

* {{Gasshole}}: Flatulent
* InUniverseNickname: "Garth the Gross"
* NumberTwo: to Mace as Lord Seneschal

An uncle of Lord Mace and Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown. He's the father of Leo Tyrell

* TheCaptain: of the City Watch of Oldtown

[[folder: Harlen Tyrell]]

** Harlan Tyrell was the High Steward of Highgarden when all of House Gardner was killed, and when he bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror he was made Lord of Highgarden.

* FeudingFamilies / SitcomArchnemesis: Notoriously do not get along well with members of House Martell, an enmity dating back centuries due to plenty of wars between the Reach and Dorne, to the point that Tyrion gets a headache trying to sort their visiting members out. Willas Tyrell and Oberyn Martell are a notable exception.

* {{Gasshole}}: Garth the Gross.

[[folder: Leo Tyrell]]
-->See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireOrganizations Maesters section on the organizations page]].

The Lords of the Reach and Wardens of the South from their flowery seat at Highgarden. Originally, the Tyrells were stewards to the reigning Gardener Kings, but after Aegon Targaryen wiped out the last of the Gardeners, the Tyrells yielded the castle up to him. The Conqueror rewarded them by naming the Tyrells overlords of the Reach, even though there were likely House with better lines of descent. The current Tyrells are a rich and powerful house, and the Reach is the largest and most fertile of the six southern kingdoms, but their patriarch Mace Tyrell is a fat, greedy buffoon. Though they started out the series by allying with Renly, they eventually went over to House Lannister. They are extremely popular with the smallfolk of King's Landing. Their sigil is a golden rose on green.

!!Tropes relating to the Tyrells:

* FeudingFamilies / SitcomArchnemesis: Notoriously do not get along well with members of House Martell, an enmity dating back centuries due to plenty of wars between the Reach and Dorne, to the point that Tyrion gets a headache trying to sort their visiting members out. Willas and Oberyn Martell are a notable exception.

--> “Other great houses take lions and wolves for their sigils, and draw their power from the gold in their mountains or the cold of their winters… but mountains run dry, winter yields to spring and the rose blooms once more.”

* TooDumbToLive: The late Lord Luthor Tyrell, Lady Olenna’s husband, who rode his horse off a cliff while hawking. He had been looking up and not paying attention to where his horse was going. After meeting Lady Olenna, Tyrion muses that maybe he [[DrivenToSuicide did it on purpose.]]

* [[spoiler:RasputinianDeath: During the siege of Dragonstone, he takes a crossbow bolt to the thigh and another to the shoulder. Still fighting, he received a blow from a mace, which cracked a few ribs, and then when he still managed to beat back the enemy, he wound up getting doused in boiling oil. He's not dead yet, but he's not far from it, and most people are convinced he won't survive.]]

* IHaveManyNames: Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South, High Marshal of the Reach, Defender of the Marches

[[folder:Lady Olenna Redwyne, "the Queen of Thorns"]]

* TheChessmaster[=/=]ManipulativeBitch: Olenna Tyrell is as manipulative as Varys or Littlefinger - although presumably her influences doesn't stretch as far as theirs do - but almost no one is aware of it.

* DeadpanSnarker: Olenna gets away with her constant jibes at powerful people partly because she's the grandmother of the Queen and partly [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior because of her age]]. No wonder she's known as "The Queen of Thorns".

--> '''Olenna''': "All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers."

* NotSoDifferent: Lady Olenna is pretty much a gender swapped Tywin Lannister. She's an excellent Chessmaster and every bit as ruthless as Tywin. The difference is that Tywin didn't care if people knew he was behind things, and Olenna's cultivated the facade of being just a rude old woman to hide her own manipulations.

* TheWomanBehindTheMan: Lady Olenna to Lord Mace, her son.

* AdaptedOut: ''Series/GameOfThrones'' [[CompositeCharacter condenses the three Tyrell sons into Loras]].

* IHaveManyNames: Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South, High Marshal of the Reach

[[folder:Garlan Tyrell]]

[[folder:Loras Tyrell]]

[[folder:Margaery Tyrell]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The smallfolk of King's Landing absolutely love her, in no small part thanks to the Tyrell food donations being given in her name before her arrival.

[[folder:Olenna Redwyne, "the Queen of Thorns"]]

[[folder:Mace Tyrell]]

Second son of Mace Tyrell and Alerie Hightower, Garlan is a better swordsman than his younger brother Loras but lacks Loras's desire to be famous, instead preferring settling down happily with his wife Leonette Fossoway. Following the Battle of the Blackwater, where Garlan plays a key role, he is given Brightwater Keep, the ancestral castle of House Florent (Who have been attainted), the Tyrell's chief rivals, along with its lands and titles making Garlan a powerful lord.

[[folder:Olenna Tyrell, "the Queen of Thorns"]]

* NeverMessWithGranny: Olenna, who is not called "Queen of Thorns" for no reason. [[spoiler: Joffrey learnt that ''messily''.]]

* TheStarscream: House Florent is this to them after siding with Stannis; in a way they were this to the original Kings of the Reach, House Gardener - they were quick to seize all of House Gardener's holdings once the house had been extinguished.

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The Lords of the Reach and Wardens of the South from their flowery seat at Highgarden. Originally, the Tyrells were stewards to the reigning Gardener Kings, but after Aegon Targaryen wiped out the last of the Gardeners, the Tyrells yielded the castle up to him. The Conqueror rewarded them by naming the Tyrells overlords of the Reach, even though there were likely House with better lines of descent. The current Tyrells are a rich and powerful house, and the Reach is the largest and most fertile of the six southern kingdoms, but their patriarch Mace Tyrell is a fat, greedy buffoon. Though they started out the series by allying with Renly, they eventually went over to House Lannister. They are extremely popular with the smallfolk of King's Landing. Their sigil is a golden rose.

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* SpoiledSweet: Margaery. This may or may not be part of her PR campaign.
* UnknownRival: Cersei is ''very'' threatened by Margaery, while Margaery seems oblivious to how much worry she's causing her, and genuinely seems to want to get along with her. [[spoiler: Margaery is almost certainly just acting, however, since she is shrewd enough to see straight through Cersei's attempt to get her damned without an acceptable champion for a trial by combat, and, while scared, doesn't seem all that surprised that Cersei is trying to get her killed.]]

-->"Willas has a bad leg but a good heart."

-->"Ser Loras is so Tyrell he pisses rosewater."

--> "Margaery was different, though. Sweet and gentle, yet there was a little of her grandmother in her, too."

--> "All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than the ones with crowns."

* SitcomArchnemesis: Notoriously do not get along well with members of House Martell. Willas and Oberyn Martell are a notable exception.

The Lords of the Reach and Wardens of the South from their flowery seat at Highgarden. The Tyrells are a rich and powerful house, and the Reach is the largest of the six southern kingdoms, but their patriarch Mace Tyrell is a fat, greedy buffoon. Though they started out the series by allying with Renly, they eventually went over to House Lannister. They are extremely popular with the smallfolk of King's Landing. Their sigil is a golden rose.