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Merging Two Git Repositories Into One Repository Without Losing File History
A while ago my team had code for our project spread out in two different Git repositories. Over time we realized that there was no good reason for this arrangement and was just a general hassle and source of friction, so we decided to combine our two repositories into one repository containing both halves of the code base, with each of the old repositories in its own subdirectory. However, we wanted to preserve all of the change history from each repo and have it available in the new repository.
The good news is that Git makes this sort of thing very easy to do. Since a repository in Git is just a directed acyclic graph, it's trivial to glue two graphs together and make one big graph. The bad news is that there are a few different ways to do it and some of them end up with a less desirable result (at least for our purposes) than others. For instance, do a web search on this subject and you'll get a lot of information about git submodules or subtree merges, both of which are kind of complex and are designed for the situation where you're trying to bring in source code from an external project or library and you want to bring in more changes from that project in the future, or ship your changes back to them. One side effect of this is that when you import the source code using a subtree merge all of the files show up as newly added files. You can see the history of commits for those files in aggregate (i.e. you can view the commits in the DAG) but if you try to view the history for a specific file in your sub-project all you'll get is one commit for that file – the subtree merge.
This is generally not a problem for the "import an external library" scenario but I was trying to do something different. I wanted to glue to repositories together and have them look as though they had always been one repository all along. I didn't need the ability to extract changes and ship them back anywhere because my old repositories would be retired. Fortunately, after much research and trial-and-error it turned out that it's actually very easy to do what I was trying to do and it requires just a couple of straightforward git commands.
The basic idea is that we follow these steps:
- Create a new empty repository New.
- Make an initial commit because we need one before we do a merge.
- Add a remote to old repository OldA.
- Merge OldA/master to New/master.
- Make a subdirectory OldA.
- Move all files into subdirectory OldA.
- Commit all of the file moves.
- Repeat 3-6 for OldB.
- A powershell script for these steps might look like this:
# Assume the current directory is where we want the new repository to be created
# Create the new repository
git init
# Before we do a merge, we have to have an initial commit, so we'll make a dummy commit
dir > deleteme.txt
git add .
git commit -m "Initial dummy commit"
# Add a remote for and fetch the old repo
git remote add -f old_a <OldA repo URL>
# Merge the files from old_a/master into new/master
git merge old_a/master
# Clean up our dummy file because we don't need it any more
git rm .\deleteme.txt
git commit -m "Clean up initial file"
# Move the old_a repo files and folders into a subdirectory so they don't collide with the other repo coming later
mkdir old_a
dir –exclude old_a | %{git mv $_.Name old_a}
# Commit the move
git commit -m "Move old_a files into subdir"
# Do the same thing for old_b
git remote add -f old_b <OldB repo URL>
git merge old_b/master
mkdir old_b
dir –exclude old_a,old_b | %{git mv $_.Name old_b}
git commit -m "Move old_b files into subdir"
Very simple. Now we have all the files from OldA and OldB in repository New, sitting in separate subdirectories, and we have both the commit history and the individual file history for all files. (Since we did a rename, you have to do "git log –follow <file> to see that history, but that's true for any file rename operation, not just for our repo-merge.)
Obviously you could instead merge old_b into old_a (which becomes the new combined repo) if you'd rather do that – modify the script to suit.
If we have in-progress feature branches in the old repositories that also need to come over to the new repository, that's also quite easy:
# Bring over a feature branch from one of the old repos
git checkout -b feature-in-progress
git merge -s recursive -Xsubtree=old_a old_a/feature-in-progress
This is the only non-obvious part of the whole operation. We're doing a normal recursive merge here (the "-s recursive" part isn't strictly necessary because that's the default) but we're passing an argument to the recursive merge that tells Git that we've renamed the target and that helps Git line them up correctly. This is not the same thing as the thing called a "subtree merge".
So, if you're simply trying to merge two repositories together into one repository and make it look like it was that way all along, don't mess with submodules or subtree merges. Just do a few regular, normal merges and you'll have what you want.
The Windows Experience Index for your system could not be computed
I recently had a problem with a Windows 8 computer where I couldn't run the Windows Experience Index. I had previously run the WEI just fine on this computer but all of a sudden it started giving me this error message:
A cursory search online didn't yield a solution but I did find out that WEI writes a log file to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsat.log. Looking in that log file showed me this at the end of the log:
338046 (4136) – exe\syspowertools.cpp:0983: > Read the active power scheme as '381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e'
338046 (4136) – exe\main.cpp:2925: > power policy saved.
338078 (4136) – exe\syspowertools.cpp:1018: ERROR: Cannot set the current power scheme to '8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c': The instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a WMI data provider.
338078 (4136) – exe\main.cpp:2942: ERROR: Can't set high power state.
338078 (4136) – exe\processwinsaterror.cpp:0298: Unspecified error 29 occured.
338078 (4136) – exe\processwinsaterror.cpp:0319: Writing exit code, cant msg and why msg to registry
338078 (4136) – exe\syspowertools.cpp:1015: > Set the active power scheme to 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e'
338078 (4136) – exe\main.cpp:2987: > Power state restored.
338078 (4136) – exe\main.cpp:3002: > Successfully reenabled EMD.
338109 (4136) – exe\watchdog.cpp:0339: Watch dog system shutdown
338109 (4136) – exe\main.cpp:5341: > exit value = 29.
Ah! This computer is used by my entire family and I had been using the Local Group Policy Editor to lock down some settings that I didn't want people to change, including the power management policy. Apparently, if users can't change the power management policy then WEI can't change it either, and it gets grumpy about that.
The solution was to turn off enforcement of the active power management plan, run WEI (which now worked fine), then re-enable enforcement.
Fixing the error "Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server. Failed to register URL. Access is denied."
I had a Visual Studio web project that was configured to use IIS Express on port 8080. That should normally be fine and IIS Express is supposed to be able to run without administrator privileges, but when I would try to run the app I would get this error:
Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server.
Failed to register URL "http://localhost:8080/" for site "MySite" application "/". Error description: Access is denied. (0×80070005).
Launching Visual Studio with administrator credentials would cause it to be able to run the application successfully, but that kind of defeated the purpose of using IIS Express in the first place.
It turns out that the problem in my case was that something else had previously created a URL reservation for port http://localhost:8080/. I have no idea what did it, but running this command in Powershell showed the culprit:
[C:\Users\Eric] 5/3/2012 2:39 PM
14> netsh http show urlacl | select-string "8080"
Reserved URL : http://+:8080/
The solution was to run this command in an elevated shell:
[C:\Users\Eric] 5/3/2012 2:39 PM
2> netsh http delete urlacl http://+:8080/
URL reservation successfully deleted
Now I can run my web app from VS without elevation.
Fixing "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser'"
It's incredibly frustrating that this still happens, but it turns out that if you have Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Express 2008 (or R2) on your machine, and you uninstall SQL Server Express 2008 and install SQL Server Express 2012 instead, you'll get an error trying to load database projects in Visual Studio 2010: "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser'".
Why can't SQL Server 2012 install the stuff it knows Visual Studio requires? Fine, whatever.
The fix for this problem is the same as the last time I posted something like this:
- Locate your Visual Studio 2010 installation media.
- In the \WCU\DAC folder, you'll find three MSIs: DACFramework_enu.msi, DACProjectSystemSetup_enu.msi, and TSqlLanguageService_enu.msi. Run and install each of them. (Possibly just the third one is required in this case. I'm not sure.)
- Reapply Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
You should be back to a working state.
I Hate #Regions
This is mostly a note to myself so I don't lose this awesome Visual Extension.
I hate C# #region tags in Visual Studio. I hate opening a class file and then having to expand all the regions in order to read the code. If you feel the need to use regions to make your class file more manageable, then it's quite likely that your class is actually too big and desperately needs to be refactored. Just . . . no.
But since not everyone is as enlightened as myself (ahem), sometimes I have to work with code that uses lots of #region tags. In those cases where I can't delete them all with extreme prejudice, I can at least install the excellent I Hate #Regions Visual Studio extension that will auto-expand regions whenever I open a file and will also display the #region tags in very small type so that they're not as obnoxious. Ah, relief!
Eliminating Friction, Part 3: The Build Server
Once we had a build script for Jumala we could do something about setting up a continuous integration build server.
Before the build server got going, we had several chronic problems that sapped time and morale from our team:
- People would forget to include a new file with a commit or break the build in various other ways. This wouldn't be discovered until someone else updated from source control and couldn't build any more. That's never fun.
- Because there wasn't any official build, the process of deploying builds to the live web sites was pretty much having someone build on his/her local machine then manually copy the resulting binaries to the web server. Every once in a while a bad build would go out with personal configuration options or uncommitted code changes that shouldn't have been made public. That's never fun either.
- As a result of the previous point, we could never tell exactly what build was running on the web servers at any given moment. The best we could do was inspect timestamps on the files but that didn't tell us exactly what commits were included in a build.
Needless to say that wasn't a great experience for our development team. The solution was to set up a continuous integration build server that would automatically sync, build, and report automatically after each commit.
Solving the problem
I downloaded and installed TeamCity from JetBrains. TeamCity is one of those rare tools that manages to combine both ridiculously awesome ease of use and ridiculously powerful configurability into one package. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a CI build server. JetBrains offers very generous licensing terms for TeamCity which makes it free to use for most small teams. By the time your team is large enough to need more than what the free license provides, you won't mind paying for it.
I set up a build configuration for our main branch in SVN, set it to build and run unit tests after every commit, and configured TeamCity to send email to all users on build failures. This way when someone breaks the build we know about it instantly and we know exactly what caused it. Sure, we still have occasional build breaks but they're not a big deal any more.
I extended our Rake build script to copy all binaries to a designated output folder in the source tree then configured TeamCity to grab that output folder and store it as the build artifacts. Now when we want to deploy a build to our web servers, we can go to the TeamCity interface, download the build artifacts for a particular build, and deploy them without fear of random junk polluting them. No more deploying personal dev builds!
I also set up a build numbering scheme for the TeamCity builds so that every build is stamped with a <major>.<minor>.<TeamCity build counter>.<SVN revision number> scheme. This lets us unambiguously trace back any build binary to exactly where it came from and what it contains.
Finally, once the TeamCity build was working smoothly I created a template from the main branch build and use that template to quickly define new build configurations for our release branches as we create them. When we create a new release branch I copy the version number information from the main branch build definition to the new release branch build definition, then bump the minor version number and reset the TeamCity build counter on the main branch. This way all builds from all branches are unambiguous and we know when and where they came from.
A dedicated build server has been considered a best practice for decades now, and a CI build server doing builds on every single commit has been a best practice for a long time as well, but small startup teams can sometimes get so caught up in building the product that they forget to attend to the necessary engineering infrastructure. Setting up a build server isn't a very sexy job but it pays huge dividends in reduced friction over time. These days it's amazingly easy to do it, too. If your team doesn't have a CI build server, you should get one right away. Once you do you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.
Fixing "The 'VSTS for Database Professionals Sql Server Data-tier Application' package did not load correctly"
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Express have an uneasy alliance, at best. When you install Visual Studio 2010 it installs SQL Server Express 2008 for you, but only the database engine, not SQL Server Management Studio. If you mess with SQL Server Express in order to install the management tools, or upgrade to 2008 R2, or install the Advanced Services version, things break and you can no longer reliably use the Visual Studio database projects.
In particular, if you remove SQL Server Express 2008 and install SQL Server Express 2008 R2, you'll probably run into an issue where if you try to open a schema object in a Visual Studio database project you'll get an error that says:
The 'VSTS for Database Professionals Sql Server Data-tier Application' package did not load correctly.
The fix for this problem can be found here. Here's the short version:
- Locate your Visual Studio 2010 installation media.
- In the \WCU\DAC folder, you'll find three MSIs: DACFramework_enu.msi, DACProjectSystemSetup_enu.msi, and TSqlLanguageService_enu.msi. Run and install each of them.
- Reapply Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
You should be back to a working state.


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"I want to say very loudly and clearly that for the citizens of the western countries, for all the citizens of the democratic countries that share the same cultural roots and the same moral and political values, the existence of the Communist dictatorship in Cuba is a reason for embarrassment and a call to our sense of freedom and responsibility," Aguirre said.
The Spanish politician made her comments during a ceremony on Dec. 4 at headquarters of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents honoring the founder of the Christian Liberation Movement in Cuba, Oswaldo Paya, and dissident Harold Cepero.
Both dissidents were killed in an alleged car accident on July 22 in Cuba. Paya's family has rejected the Cuban government's version of how the opposition leader died and continues to maintain that his death may have been intentional.
During her remarks, Aguirre announced she has joined a petition calling for an international investigation into the deaths.
The political leader also stressed that the "commitment against the Castro dictatorship needs be greater in Spaniards."
"Because it was the last republic to gain independence, Cuba is the American nation with the closest ties to Spain, and they are very strong," she explained. "Family ties, sentimental ties and emotional ties."
These bonds mean Spaniards have "more responsibility than anyone else when it comes to taking on the dictatorship, and when it comes to collaborating with the dissidence in order to achieve, once and for all, a return to a free Cuba," Aguirre said.
"So that once and for all, Cuba ceases to be a sinister anomaly among the nations of the West to which it belongs."
Cuba dictatorship an embarrassment, Spanish politician says
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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A boundary is our personal property line that delineates those things for which we are responsible. The authors explain God's purpose for setting boundaries, ten laws and myths of boundaries, how to teach children to set boundaries, how to require responsibility from others, and more. Provides a Biblical basis for getting boundaries.
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An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Martin Heidegger's Theory of Language
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Guyden, Lateesha; Glazebrook, Patricia & Davenport, Beverly
Description: This paper discusses research on the philosophical connotations of words. Abstract: "Language is the house of Being, in its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home" (Heidegger 203). These words from Martin Heidegger help to shape a broader intellectual discussion about the use of language. The philosophy of language allows us to examine how language has been used to shape, establish, and solidify creatures. As we use the tools offered them by philosophers who have studied language, we will be able to explore the language that accompanied the creation of racial categories and the role that it has played in American society. The origins of the words black and white will be examined and how, through racism, the words' meanings have changed, thus enabling segregation within neighborhoods and schools. This analysis of the linguistic shaping of culture makes use of an ongoing interdisciplinary discussion of language application. If we, as Americans, change the connotations associated with white or black, could integration become a reality in our society?
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Truth in Context: Nietzsche's Affirmation of Tragic Morality
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Heister, Luke & Yaffe, Martin D.
Description: This paper discusses research on Friedrich Nietzsche's affirmation of tragic morality. In 'Ancient Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Science', Michael Davis states that the "beauty of tragedy is its presentation of the moral necessity of chance" (3). The work of Nietzsche, using metaphor and ambiguous, paradoxical language, can be decoded as a discussion regarding the human desire for, yet inability to reach, autonomy. Nietzsche, though flirting at times with the realization of establishing human autonomy, ultimately affirms the kind of morality relative to the ancient tragedian's worldview. Nietzsche develops this intellectual discussion through the means of conceptual thought experiments and an analysis of mythical archetypes.
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i use maple sugar instead of regular sugar. the powder is wonderful for baking and sprinkling on french toast, baked candied ginger, and so much more.
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- Futuracha is a display font designed during my third year in graphic design school, in typography course with professor K. Giotas. The name is the combination of words futura and cucaracha (cockroach in spanish).
The design is based on the basis of pf futura book which has for me a ideal weight. The letters' edges radically extend in a forceful way trying to remind the art deco's style. The serif are based on Claude Garamond typefaces.
It was designed as a display font so it's not recommended for extended texts. It's suitable for headlines and logos. I strongly recommend users to experiment with the font. The results of the experiments may be proven fascinating. Futuracha includes both greek and latin characters as well as numbers and symbols. You can download Futuracha for free in e.ps format. Feel free to send my your experiments' results!
(For professional use please contact me) - Greek & English pangrams
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Alumni Profiles - Meet Susan Barton
Hometown: Wayne, PA
Years of Graduation: B.S. 1981, Ph.D. 2005
Major: Plant Science
Campus Involvement:
Horticulture Club, Phi Kappa Tau Little Sister
Current Position of Employment or Education:
Extension Specialist and Associate Professor
Describe your best Ag experience:
I loved being a TA for Herbaceous Plants with Dick Lighty and Woody Plants with Charlie Dunham.
Which Ag course was your favorite and why?
Landscape design courses were my favorite. Conrad Hammerman was an inspirational character and it was exciting to learn how to design landscapes.
Tell us about your current position or program of study and what led you to that field.
I knew I was interested in landscape horticulture in high school and chose UD for the plant science program. I worked at a garden center, nursery and landscape company throughout college and for one year after I graduated. Then I went to grad school at North Carolina State because I decided I wanted to teach. I got my Masters degree and then started teaching at Fayetteville Technical College in NC. After one year I was offered my current position as Extension Specialist at UD and jumped on the opportunity.
How did your College of Ag experiences prepare you for your current job or post-graduate education?
I had a good foundation in plant science and had no problem going on to graduate school. The plant ID courses were probably the most important for learning a skill that I used while I worked in the landscape industry. Everything comes back to knowing the plants and how they function in the landscape.
What advice do you have for students interested in your field?
Get involved in activities and do as many internships as you can. The more work experience you have, the more you will know and the easier it will be to get a full time job when you graduate. .


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Now, Jamie Foxx is openly talking about this important role, which he confirms he is pursuing. The Academy Award-winning actor has not officially signed on to play Electro, whom many believe made an appearance during the end credit sequence of The Amazing Spider-Man. But he is excited about taking on this character, none the less.
Here is his official statement, where he states that he is taking on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 solely to make his daughter happy.
Not to race bait, but while many speculate that the villain standing in The Lizard's jail cell at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man. is, in fact, Electro, it must be noted that this shadowy character is clearly a caucasian male. They did not go back and correct this on the Blu-ray that was released last week. This either means that the villain isn't Electro, or that they will be correcting this with CGI somewhere down the road. The timeline of the home video release and the news of this casting seems to indicate they knew what they were doing, though... So don't be surprised to find out there is another villain in the mix here.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes to theaters May 2nd, 2014 and stars Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx, Emma Stone, Sally Field, Paul Giamatti, Denis Leary, Dane DeHaan, Martin Sheen. The film is directed by Marc Webb.


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haha creative Brian.. very creative
We've gone through 3 threads of nothingness?
always plotting, planning, and looking forward to our next adventure...
I like it Brian. I think it makes me understand dyslexia!
Some people are like Slinkies.
They aren't really good for anything,
but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
Friends are Gods way of apologizing to us for our families.
Can't wait until someone has to type this thread name into the search engine.
Some people are like Slinkies.
They aren't really good for anything,
but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
Friends are Gods way of apologizing to us for our families.
Okay, back to the beginning-YAYYYYYY.
Thanks Brian, so is Dark Side closed as well? IS this a combination of the two to save space? FUN.
I stayed up late for this and DH is watching a Pamela Anderson Roast-really horrid stuff.
Thanks for the new thread, Brian
Have a great night all.
P.U.S.H.-A mantra MOST will not understand.
Disney rocks, Walt was a genius.
Yes. Another thread for me to say nothing. Love it.
So it is 3 a.m. and I am awake. This may be a very long day for me. Getting sleepy though. Maybe I will fall asleep soon.
Tigger's are bouncy. I wonder if Lori got packed.
I have a lot of work to do this semester. Got to plan some things tomorrow.
I need to find a book about illustrators. I could read the chapter from the book we are using. I wonder what new information is in there.
Flintstones are on right now. I used to sing the theme song to myself when I would have a nightmare. I would sing myself back to sleep so that I wouldn't go back to the nightmare.
I could use some chocolate chip cookies right now.
I got hit by the 19 second rule. Ahhhhhh, the good ole days.
Family ended up having nachos last night. So time for some hamburgers tomorrow.
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Hello, and welcome to my Harper Perennial site. Here you can find out more about my novels, The Mathematics of Love and A Secret Alchemy, and something about me and my writing life.
I'm so thrilled to be published in the USA. As you may know, I'm English (with bits of Scottish, Irish, and French in there for good measure, along with an American great-grandmother) and I've lived most of my life in London. But my first memories are actually of America. When I was three my family moved to Manhattan, and I remember things like the Central Park carousel, the St Patrick's Day parades, Laura and Mary Ingalls's house in De Smet, the Fourth of July in San Francisco, and the bears in Yosemite. We came home when I was six, but these things have stayed with me, along with a taste for Oreos (you couldn't get them in England till about ten years ago) and a determination to bring my children up on Doctor Seuss and Snoopy. I still have cousins and friends on the Western side of the Atlantic, too, so the ties are strong.
I'll hope to keep this site updated with news, although the writer's life actually consists of a great deal of sitting in a room in silence, which isn't usually very newsworthy. At the moment I'm researching my new novel and trying to finish my PhD, but as we get closer to A Secret Alchemy being published (November in the UK, next summer in the US), there should be more going on.
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Ingredients and Preparation
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Garlic cloves, minced |
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Red wine vinaigrette |
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Soy sauce |
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Flank steak or top round steak (about 1 inch thick) |
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A bashi-bazouk or bashibazouk (Turkish başıbozuk, or delibaş, literally "damaged head", meaning "free headed", "leaderless", "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. They were particularly noted for their lack of discipline.
Although Turkish armies always contained bashi-bazouk adventurers as well as regular soldiers, the strain on the Ottoman feudal system caused mainly by the Empire's wide expanse required heavier reliance on irregular soldiers. They were armed and maintained by the government, but did not receive pay and did not wear uniforms or distinctive badges. They were motivated to fight mostly by expectations of plunder.[4] Though the majority of troops fought on foot, some troops (called akinci) rode on horseback. Because of their lack of discipline, they were incapable of undertaking major military operations, but were useful for other tasks such as reconnaissance and outpost duty. However, their uncertain temper occasionally made it necessary for the Turkish regular troops to disarm them by force.[3]
The Ottoman army consisted of the following:
- The Sultan's household troops, called Kapıkulu, which were salaried, most notable being janissary corps.
- Provincial soldiers, which were fiefed (Turkish Tımarlı), the most important being Timarli Sipahi (lit. "fiefed cavalry") and their retainers (called cebelu lit. armed, man-at-arms), but other kinds were also present.
- Soldiers of subject, protectorate, or allied states (the most important being the Crimean Khans)
- Bashi-bazouk usually did not receive regular salaries and lived off loot.
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Under the best conditions, an Ottoman commander-in-chief would be able to muster hundreds of thousands of soldiers and lead an excursion into Austria or Iran, whichever posed the greatest threat, capturing or extorting sufficient lands or money to cover the expenses of the next campaign in the process. Frequently, the actual number of soldiers deployed to the battlefield was one order of magnitude less.
On the eve of battle an Ottoman commander would tap any source of manpower he saw fit; hiring mercenaries was one of them. The hiring process occurred in an open market, with prices determined by negotiation between the mercenary troop leader and an Ottoman commander. Prices were affected by the quality and quantity of mercenary troop available as well as the commander's requirements. Oral negotiations usually led to a written contract. Some of these documents survive today, often showing small mercenary leaders contracting for very high amounts.
Bashi-bazouk was most notably the name given to Albanian irregulars used by the Turkish Ottoman armies to terrorize the Balkans. Bashi-bazouk raiding parties of Albanian mercenaries, recently converted to Sunni Islam, were sent out into the Balkan countryside to pillage, rape and massacre, as well as eradicate any fighting opposition, in an effort to force the Serbian, Macedonian and other Balkan peoples to surrender to the Ottoman Empire and submit to its rule.
An attempt by Husrev Pasha to disband his Albanian bashi-bazouks in favor of his regular forces began the rioting which led to the establishment of Muhammad Ali's Khedivate of Egypt.
The bashi-bazouk were notorious for being brutal and undisciplined, thus giving the term its second, colloquial meaning of "undisciplined bandit" in many languages. A notable example of this use is in the comic series The Adventures of Tintin, where the word is often used as an expletive by Captain Haddock.[5][6]
Their use was abandoned by the end of the 19th century. However, self-organized bashi-bazouk troops still appeared later.
The term "bashibozouk" has also been used for a mounted force, existing in peacetime in various provinces of the Ottoman empire, which performed the duties of gendarmerie.
See also[edit]
- ^ Repin, Volume 1; Igor Emanuilovich Grabar'; 1948; p.391 (in Russian)
- ^ Bulgaria today: Volume 15, Issue 4; 1966; p.35
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bashi-Bazouk". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
- ^ Montgomery 1968, p. 246
- ^ [1] Running for the Hills: A Memoir, Horatio Clare. Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 168
- ^ [2] Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers, Shashi Tharoor. Skyhorse Publishing, 2012
Further reading[edit]
- Ottoman warfare, 1500–1700 by Rhoads Murphey. London : UCL Press, 1999.
- Özhan Öztürk (2005). Karadeniz (Black Sea): Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2 Cilt. Heyamola Yayıncılık. İstanbul. ISBN 975-6121-00-9.
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- Montgomery, Viscount Bernard (1968). A History of Warfare, The World Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-688-01645-6.


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House Stark
From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
House Stark of Winterfell | |
Coat of arms | White, a direwolf courant argent |
Words | Winter is Coming |
Seat | Scattered (formerly Winterfell) |
Current Lord | Rickon Stark (lost) |
Region | The North |
Title | King in the North Warden of the North Lord of Winterfell King of the Trident |
Overlord | None (formerly House Baratheon of King's Landing) |
Cadet Branch | House Greystark House Karstark |
Ancestral Weapon | Ice (destroyed) |
Founder | Bran the Builder |
Founded | Age of Heroes |
House Stark of Winterfell is one of the great houses of Westeros and the principal noble house of the North; many lesser houses are sworn to them. In days of old they ruled as Kings of Winter; since the Targaryen Conquest they have been Wardens of the North. Their seat, Winterfell, is an ancient castle renowned for its strength. Their sigil is a grey direwolf racing across a field of white, and their words are "Winter Is Coming", one of only a few house mottoes to be a warning rather than a boast.[1] Members of the family tend to be lean of build and long of face, with dark brown hair and grey eyes. Several of the main point of view characters of the series are members of this house.
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The Starks are an ancient house, descended from Bran the Builder, a legendary figure from the Age of Heroes, who raised their ancestral home at Winterfell thousands of years in the past, as well as the Wall. They are descendants of the First Men[1] and still follow some of their ancient traditions and the old gods of the forest. The Starks were Kings of Winter in the North for many thousands of years from the Age of Heroes, possibly beginning with Bran the Builder. Ever since Bran constructed the Wall, the Starks have been friends of the Night's Watch, and have manned the Wall for thousands of years. The Night's King, the attainted 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, is said to have been a Stark, among his many possible origins. The Starks also helped repel several major wildling invasions, such as when they and their Umber bannermen defeated the Kings-Beyond-the-Wall like the brothers Gendel and Gorne, as well as Bael the Bard, who both sired and fought a Stark.
For several millennia, the Starks were not the uncontested Kings in the North, but their primary antagonists, the Boltons of the Dreadfort, swore fealty some 1,000 years ago, ending their flesh-flaying ways. Meanwhile, King Jon Stark drove pirates from the White Knife, and the Wolf's Den was built at its mouth. This stronghold and the city which grew up around it, White Harbor, was often granted to sons and grandsons of the King in the North or other bannermen before finally being granted to the Manderlys, a house exiled from the Reach and taken in by the Starks. King Jon's son, Rickard, defeated the Marsh King and married his daughter, bringing the Neck into Winterfell's realm under the lordship of House Reed. The Karstarks were founded when Karlon Stark, brother to the reigning king, helped crush a rebel lord and was granted a keep for his service. Finally, the Mormonts were granted Bear Island when King Rodrik Stark won it from the ironborn in a wrestling match. The Starks fought the Arryns of the Vale for the Three Sisters, eventually ceding control of the islands.
Aside from the Karstarks, the Starks of Winterfell may have distant relatives elsewhere in the North, possibly in White Harbor and Barrowton.[2]
The last Stark King in the North was Torrhen, who submitted to Aegon the Conqueror at the end of the War of Conquest. Since that time the Starks have held the North for the kings of the Seven Kingdoms as Wardens of the North.[3]
In 129AL, as the Dance of the Dragons began, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon recruited Lord Cregan Stark's aid for the blacks, although the war was hoped to be short and the North judged to be too remote to be of import.
Around 213AL, House Stark faced a difficult succession. Several Lords of Winterfell had perished fighting wars in the North against rebellious Skagosi, the wildling king Raymun Redbeard and other threats, leaving Beron Stark as the lord of the house. As he too lay slowly succumbing to wounds he received fighting Dagon Greyjoy and his ironborn, his wife and four other recent Stark widows struggled over who would succeed him. There were a number of potential heirs, with some ten Stark children about.[4] [5]
Recent Background
Lord Rickard Stark and his maester, Walys Flowers, sought to further southron alliances by betrothing Rickard's heir, Brandon, to Catelyn Tully of Riverrun. Petyr Baelish, a ward of Catelyn's father nicknamed Littlefinger, loved Catelyn and challenged Brandon to a duel for her hand. Brandon won their duel, but did not kill Petyr in concession to Catelyn's pleas. Meanwhile, Lyanna Stark was betrothed to Lord Robert Baratheon, who was infatuated with her from a distance. Lyanna, however, was not as ardent in her love for Robert, and was fully aware of his philandering ways. Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, after winning the Tourney at Harrenhal, crowned her Queen of Love and Beauty, passing over his wife, the Dornish princess Elia, in her favor. The exact nature of her relationship with Rhaegar is not presently clear, but shortly thereafter she disappeared in Rhaegar's company and Robert and her brother Brandon Stark believed that Lyanna had been taken against her will. Brandon was on his way to Riverrun to wed Catelyn Tully when he heard this news. He and four companions rode to King's Landing to seek her return, but both he and Lord Rickard were executed on the order of the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen. Lord Jon Arryn refused to hand his wards, Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon, over when Aerys demanded their heads, and civil war broke out.
During its course, Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark honored his late brother Brandon's betrothal to Catelyn Tully as part of an alliance to bring House Tully into the rebel fold. He was one of the principal commanders in the war, but had a falling out with Robert after he accepted the treacherous aid of House Lannister and condoned the brutal murders of Rhaegar's wife, son and daughter out of his hatred for the Targaryen prince. After the Sack of King's Landing, Eddard and six companions went to retrieve Lyanna at the fortress Rhaegar had named the Tower of Joy. They fought three Kingsguard knights stationed there, who killed all but Eddard and Howland Reed. Eddard found Lyanna dying in a bed of blood and clutching a withered wreath of blue roses. She forced him to make a promise to her, the contents of which are unknown, but which haunted Eddard for the rest of his life. She was sixteen years old at the time of her death and was buried in the Stark family crypt in Winterfell beside her father, Rickard, and brother, Brandon.
Ned and Robert were reconciled in their shared grief, but Ned still disdained the court since Robert, the new king, married Cersei Lannister and allowed her brother, Jaime, to remain a Kingsguard even after slaying his liege, Aerys. Ned returned from the war to be presented with his trueborn son, Robb, but he carried the infant Jon Snow, whom he presented as his bastard son. Six years later, Ned helped his foster brother, Robert, crush Balon Greyjoy's rebellion, taking Theon Greyjoy as a ward of Winterfell. Lord Rickard's youngest child, Benjen, joined the Night's Watch, eventually becoming First Ranger. Eddard ruled the North in Robert's name, keeping distant from the intrigue-ridden, Lannister-infested politics of King's Landing.
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
King Robert Baratheon visits Winterfell to offer Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark the position of Hand of the King, recently empty due to the death of their foster father, Lord Jon Arryn. A letter arrives from Lysa Arryn, Jon's widow and Ned's wife Catelyn's sister, who claims the Lannisters were behind Lord Arryn's sudden death. At Catelyn's urging, Ned grudgingly accepts the Handship and a betrothal of their daughter Sansa to Prince Joffrey. During the royal party's stay, Ned's second son, Bran, spies Queen Cersei Lannister having sex with her twin brother, Ser Jaime; he is thrown from a tower in hopes the fall would kill him, but survives, crippled and comatose. Ned rides to King's Landing along with his daughters, Sansa and Arya, while Catelyn remains at Winterfell with their sons. Meanwhile, Ned's bastard son, Jon Snow, rides north with his uncle, Benjen, to join the Night's Watch. Catelyn is inconsolable in her worry for Bran, ignoring her duties as steward, but is jolted back to reality by an attempt on his life thwarted only by his direwolf. As Bran lies comatose, he begins to have visions of a three-eyed crow.
On the Kingsroad, Arya defends her friend Mycah from the aggressions of Prince Joffrey Baratheon, upsetting Sansa. This is exacerbated when Sansa's direwolf, Lady, is ordered dead in place of Arya's, Nymeria, which has escaped. In King's Landing, Eddard is outraged to find that the crown is heavily in debt (largely to Lord Tywin Lannister) and that Robert intends to throw a lavish tourney in his honor.
Ned investigates the death of Jon Arryn, determining that he was looking into the king's bastard brood. When Robert holds a small council meeting to arrange the death of the exiled Daenerys Targaryen, who has wed a mighty Dothraki khal, Ned refuses to condone the assassination and resigns the Handship. In the streets of the capital, he is waylaid by Lannister men in retaliation for Catelyn's abduction of Tyrion Lannister, whom her foster-brother, Petyr Baelish, had told her was responsible for the attempt on Bran's life. Ned's leg is broken and his best men slain, but Ned survives and Robert re-confirms his appointment as Hand before going on a hunt and leaving Ned to sit the Iron Throne. In this capacity he sends men to stop Gregor Clegane from raiding the Riverlands. Gregor's attacks were ordered by Lord Lannister; since Lord Stark was wounded he was not lured into the field and thus could not be captured and traded for Tyrion. The men sent after Ser Gregor are ambushed and many are slain; the survivors go on to found the Brotherhood Without Banners. On the Wall, Jon Snow deals with the cruel tutelage of Ser Alliser Thorne while making friends such as Samwell Tarly and learning lessons from his elders. He also encounters a hint of the evil that supposedly lies beyond the Wall when the corpses of two of his uncle's men rise from the dead and go on the rampage at Castle Black; Jon saves the Watch's commander, Jeor Mormont, from being killed by one of the wights.
Eventually, Ned arrives at the same conclusion at which Jon Arryn did: that Queen Cersei's children are not Robert's, but bastards born of incest between the Lannister twins, and determines that it is this secret for which Jon was murdered. He approaches Cersei with this truth, warning her to flee the city. Enlisting Lord Baelish to recruit the Gold Cloaks, Ned confronts Cersei after Robert's death from a hunting accident, insisting that Stannis Baratheon is now king by rights. Baelish betrays Ned - his men are slaughtered by Janos Slynt's Gold Cloaks and he is thrown into a black cell. Sansa is held hostage in the Red Keep, but Arya manages to escape thanks to Syrio Forel, the fencing master Ned had hired to train her in swordplay.
Robb Stark, upon hearing this news, calls the banners of Winterfell and marches south. Catelyn arranges a marriage alliance with House Frey to negotiate a crossing of the Trident, and Robb breaks Lannister hegemony in the Riverlands and captures the Kingslayer. Ned initially refuses to name Joffrey as the true king, but in the end agrees in order to ensure the safety of Sansa. When he publicly announces this support, however, the capricious boy king orders Ned's execution rather than allow him to join the Night's Watch. The lords at Robb's war council in Riverrun proclaim him King in the North and of the Trident, seceding from the realm of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, Benjen has gone missing beyond the Wall, and Jon Snow, after briefly contemplating deserting the Watch to join his half-brother's army, rides as part of the Great Ranging meant to determine his fate and the threats of the Others and wildlings.
A Clash of Kings
Leaving Lord Roose Bolton in command of the northmen around the Trident, King Robb launches a wildly successful invasion of the Westerlands, winning a string of victories against Lannister bannermen. In an effort to gain allies, he sends his father's ward, Theon Greyjoy, and his mother, Catelyn, as envoys to Balon Greyjoy and Renly Baratheon, respectively. However, Theon joins his family in attacking the North, while Catelyn's diplomatic progress is shattered when Renly is assassinated by the red sorceress, Melisandre. Renly's sworn shield, Brienne of Tarth, takes up service with Catelyn.
Arya journeys north with Yoren and his new recruits for the Night's Watch, including King Robert's bastard Gendry, but their band is ambushed by westermen and she is taken into captivity. At Harrenhal, she is witness to myriad atrocities, but remains strong, orchestrating several deaths of her tormentors via the assassin Jaqen H'ghar and freeing a band of northmen prisoners. When the castle is taken by Roose Bolton, the incognito Arya is named his cupbearer, but does not trust her father's bannerman and flees the castle. Meanwhile, Sansa remains in custody at the Red Keep, betrothed to King Joffrey. She suffers abuse at his hands, but makes tenuous relationships with Sandor Clegane and Dontos Hollard.
At Winterfell, Bran enjoys titular reign while Maester Luwin and Ser Rodrik Cassel deal with such issues as the harvest feast, Hornwood inheritance, and the atrocities of Ramsay Snow, the Bastard of Bolton. With the guidance of the Reed children, Jojen and Meera, Bran hones his gift for greensight and skinchanging. Theon seizes Winterfell, but is thrown out by a treacherous Ramsay Snow; Luwin and Rodrik are slain by Ramsay's men. Bran and Rickon are thought dead, but split up and flee towards remote northern havens. Ramsay blames the slaughter on the ironborn.
Benjen remains lost beyond the Wall. Jon Snow joins Qhorin Halfhand on a scouting mission in the Skirling Pass, during which he refuses an order to execute a spearwife named Ygritte. On their return to Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, the pair encounter a wildling band led by Rattleshirt. Jon, on orders from Qhorin, joins the wildlings as a double agent, and is forced to kill the Halfhand to prove his earnestness. Ygritte, now with Rattleshirt, vouches for Jon.
A Storm of Swords
With Stannis Baratheon's power broken by the Battle of the Blackwater and the Tyrells and Martells allied with the Lannisters, the Stark-Tully forces stand alone against their foes in the south, and the Greyjoys threaten the North.
News of Bran's and Rickon's alleged deaths drive two fateful decisions. Catelyn is confined to Riverrun for freeing Jaime Lannister in a desperate attempt to trade him for her daughters, sending Brienne to accompany him to King's Landing. Robb returns from his Westerlands campaign having wed the daughter of a minor Lannister bannerman, Jeyne Westerling, who had comforted him in his grief. This brings House Stark's alliance with the Freys into question.
Meanwhile, Lord Rickard Karstark kills two Lannister prisoners in place of Jaime, and is in turn executed by Robb, alienating a loyal bannerhouse. Lord Walder Frey offers to forgive Robb's breach of marriage contract by having his uncle, Lord Edmure Tully, stand in his place. Robb and Catelyn ride with 3,500 veteran northmen to attend the wedding.
Bran journeys north with Hodor, Jojen and Meera Reed, and his direwolf Summer. They pass through the Wall at the Nightfort with the aid of Sam Tarly and Coldhands.
Further north, Jon Snow ingratiates himself with the free folk, beginning a romance with Ygritte and befriending Mance Rayder, the King-beyond-the-Wall, and other wildling leaders. He scales the Wall with Styr, the Magnar of Thenn, and escapes to Castle Black in time to help prepare for the assault. When it comes, command falls to Jon after the death of Donal Noye. Ygritte is killed during the fighting. Jon does well until his rivals, Alliser Thorne and Janos Slynt, arrive and imprison him for allegedly betraying his vows. They send him to assassinate Mance Rayder under a flag of parley, but Stannis Baratheon's arrival breaks the wildling host before the deed is carried out. After the battle, Jon is elected Lord Commander of the Night's Watch thanks to the maneuverings of his friend, Sam Tarly.
Sansa's engagement to King Joffrey is ended by his betrothal to Margaery Tyrell. She begins to mingle with the Tyrell women in King's Landing and is nearly betrothed to Willas Tyrell, but is wed to Tyrion Lannister instead; they never consummate their match. The pair are blamed for Joffrey's murder at his wedding feast; in truth it was orchestrated by Petyr Baelish and Olenna Tyrell. Petyr smuggles Sansa out of the capitol, murdering his pawn and her friend, Dontos Hollard. He brings Sansa to the Eyrie, where he marries her aunt, Lysa Tully. Littlefinger keeps her hidden by presenting her as his natural daughter, Alayne; when Lysa drunkenly accuses Sansa of trying to steal Petyr, and reveals that she and Baelish had in fact killed Jon Arryn, Petyr throws her from the Moon Door.
Arya traverses the Riverlands, unknowingly entering the mind of her lost direwolf, Nymeria, and killing several sellswords of the Brave Companions chasing her. She joins with the Brotherhood Without Banners, but is abducted by the Hound, Sandor Clegane, who hopes to ransom her at Edmure's wedding. Robb designates his heir (believed to be Jon Snow, in spite of the Night's Watch vows) and resolves to march north to reclaim his homeland from the Greyjoys and attend Edmure's wedding at the Twins along the way. Lord Frey, however, has been conspiring with Tywin Lannister and the traitorous Roose Bolton - Robb, Catelyn, and many of their bannermen are murdered under guest right at the Twins.
With Bran and Rickon thought dead and Sansa and Arya missing, House Stark is all but extinguished in the eyes of the world. They are supplanted as Wardens of the North by House Bolton. The rivermen return to the king's peace, and the northern lords grudgingly accept Dreadfort authority. The Hound brings Arya toward the Eyrie in an attempt to ransom her to Lady Lysa, but they are attacked by Ser Gregor Clegane's men and he is stabbed. Arya leaves the Hound to die and uses the iron coin given to her by Jaqen H'ghar, and books passage across the narrow sea on the galleas Titan's Daughter.
A Feast for Crows
Sansa remains in the Vale, where she takes on a maternal role for her cousin, Robert Arryn. Littlefinger plots to reveal her identity, wed her to Robert's heir, Harrold Hardyng, and use the knights of the Vale to retake the North in her name.
Arya arrives in Braavos, where she takes up training at the House of Black and White to become a Faceless Man.
A Dance with Dragons
Lord Commander Jon Snow begins an uneasy alliance with the free folk, executes the recalcitrant Janos Slynt, and tactfully deals with the imperious Stannis Baratheon. While refusing the king's offer to be legitimized as Jon Stark, Lord of Winterfell, and wed the "wildling princess", Val, Jon offers Stannis advice that helps him in his campaign against the Boltons and Greyjoys.
At Winterfell, Sansa's friend Jeyne Poole is wed to Ramsay Bolton in the guise of "Arya Stark" in an effort to legitimize Bolton overlordship. A disguised Mance Rayder, sent by Jon Snow, recruits a broken-willed Theon Greyjoy to rescue the girl and deliver her to Stannis. When Jon gives orders to retake Winterfell from Ramsay after receiving an inflammatory letter, the senior officers of the Watch turn on Jon for allying with wildlings and meddling in the affairs of the realm; it is not clear if he has survived their assassination attempt.
Bran arrives at the cave of the three-eyed crow, where he meets the last greenseer and children of the forest and begins perfecting the advanced arts of greensight. Rickon, Osha, and Shaggydog are said to be on Skagos, where Lord Wyman Manderly has requested that Davos Seaworth search for Rickon, so that Stannis can rally the northmen to fight in his name.
House genealogy
Unknown | Willam | Artos Deceased | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edwyle Deceased | Unknown Female | Lady of Clan Flint | Unknown Male | Brandon Deceased | Unknown Female | Member of House Royce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rickard Deceased | Unknown Female | Three daughters | Vale Lords Deceased | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brandon 261-282 | Unknown | Eddard "Ned" 263-298 | Catelyn Tully 264-299 | Benjen Unknown | Lyanna 268-284 | Offspring | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jon Snow | Robb 283-299 | Jeyne Westerling | Sansa | Tyrion Lannister | Arya | Brandon | Rickon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
House Stark at the end of the third century
- {Brandon Stark}, eldest son and heir of Lord {Rickard Stark}. He was slain along with his father by order of the Mad King, Aerys II.
- {Eddard "Ned" Stark}, middle son of Lord Rickard Stark. Ned served as Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North until his execution in King's Landing, several months after taking office as Hand of the King.
- {Catelyn Tully}, Lord Eddard's wife. She is the mother of Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon Stark. She is killed during the Red Wedding, but is later resurrected by Beric Dondarrion and is known as "Lady Stoneheart".
- {Robb Stark}, Lord Eddard's eldest trueborn son and heir, also known as "the Young Wolf". He takes his father's position as Lord Stark and is later crowned King in the North and of the Trident by his bannermen, prior to his death in the Red Wedding. His direwolf is named Grey Wind and is killed along with him at the Twins.
- Jeyne Westerling, Robb's widow.
- Sansa Stark, Eddard and Catelyn's elder daughter. Her direwolf is named Lady and is killed under Queen Cersei's orders in retribution for Arya's direwolf savaging her son Joffrey. She is currently hiding in the Vale of Arryn as "Alayne Stone".
- Tyrion Lannister, Sansa's estranged husband.
- Arya Stark, Eddard and Catelyn's younger daughter. She is publicly known to have married Ramsay Bolton, but Ramsay has instead married Jeyne Poole, who was forced to pose as the Stark girl. Arya is instead in Braavos among the Faceless Men. Her direwolf, Nymeria, leads a wolfpack roaming the Riverlands.
- Bran Stark, Eddard and Catelyn's second son. Bran becomes crippled and learns how to become a warg. he is believed to have been killed by Theon Greyjoy, but is actually beyond the Wall at the cave of the three-eyed crow. His direwolf is named Summer.
- Rickon Stark, Eddard and Catelyn's youngest child, only three years old when the series begins. He is also believed dead at the hands of Theon, though actually Rickon is in Skagos with Osha. His direwolf is Shaggydog.
- Jon Snow, Eddard's bastard son by an unspecified mother. Jon was raised at Winterfell alongside his Stark half-siblings. Having joined the Night's Watch, he has risen to the rank of Lord Commander. His direwolf is Ghost.
- {Robb Stark}, Lord Eddard's eldest trueborn son and heir, also known as "the Young Wolf". He takes his father's position as Lord Stark and is later crowned King in the North and of the Trident by his bannermen, prior to his death in the Red Wedding. His direwolf is named Grey Wind and is killed along with him at the Twins.
- {Catelyn Tully}, Lord Eddard's wife. She is the mother of Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon Stark. She is killed during the Red Wedding, but is later resurrected by Beric Dondarrion and is known as "Lady Stoneheart".
- {Lyanna Stark}, only daughter of Lord Rickard. Once betrothed to Robert Baratheon, Lyanna died after being spirited away by Rhaegar Targaryen.
- Benjen Stark, the youngest son of Lord Rickard and the last surviving sibling of Ned. He is First Ranger of the Night's Watch and brings Jon Snow to the Wall when he wants to join the order. Benjen is missing in the lands beyond the Wall.
Historical Starks
No precise lineage of House Stark is known, but the individuals listed below are supposed to be in rough chronological order.
- Bran the Builder, founder of House Stark and the first King in the North, builder of Winterfell and the Wall.
- King Theon, the Hungry Wolf
- King Brandon the Shipwright, who loved sailing and built up a mighty northern fleet.
- King Brandon the Burner, who burned the entire northern fleet after the disappearance of his father on the Sunset Sea.
- King Jonnel
- King Dorren
- King Jon, who built the Wolf's Den at White Harbor after driving away sea raiders.
- King Rickard, who defeated the Marsh King, extending their kingdom to include the Neck.
- King Rodrik, who won Bear Island from the ironborn in a wrestling match and granted it to House Mormont.
- King Edrick
- King Benjen the Bitter
- King Benjen the Sweet
- King Eyron
- King Edderion, the Bridegroom
- King Walton, the Moonking
- King Brandon the Bad
- Karlon, a younger brother of the king and founder of the Karstarks.
- King Jorah
- King Jonos
- King Edwyn, the Spring King
- King Bran the Daughterless
- Osric, son or brother of the King in the North, the youngest Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who served for 60 years.
- King Harlon, who defeated rebellious House Bolton centuries ago
- King Torrhen, the King Who Knelt, the last King in the North, who bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror, making the North owe allegiance to House Targaryen.
- Brandon Snow, King Torrhen's bastard brother.
- Cregan, who fought Aemon the Dragonknight
- Brandon
- Barth
- Jonnel
- Rodwell
- Donnor
- Artos the Implacable
- Willam
- Beron
- Edwyle
- Unnamed sister of Edwyle who married a younger son of Lord Raymar Royce of the cadet branch. Catelyn Tully considers making one of their descendants heir apparent for Robb.[6]
- Rickard, killed by order of King Aerys II shortly before Robert's Rebellion.
- Theon Greyjoy, known as "Theon Turncloak" and "Reek", Lord Eddard's ward and hostage. Fought for Robb Stark in the War of the Five Kings, betrayed him to House Greyjoy, seized Winterfell until betrayed by Ramsay Bolton. Imprisoned and tortured. Fled with Jeyne Poole. Now a prisoner of Stannis Baratheon.
- Brienne, the Maid of Tarth, sworn sword to Lady Catelyn. Sent to rescue Sansa and Arya, and keeping to that quest even after Catelyn's death and the seeming destruction of House Stark.
- Walder Frey, called "Big Walder", a ward of Lady Catelyn, eight years of age. Now a squire of Ramsay Bolton.
- {Walder Frey}, called "Little Walder", a ward of Lady Catelyn, eight years of age. Made a squire of Ramsay Bolton. Killed by the 'Ghost of Winterfell', presumably Theon Greyjoy, or Mance Rayder and his spearwives.
- Maester {Luwin}, counselor, healer and tutor. Perished to wounds sustained during the Sack of Winterfell.
- {Vayon Poole}, steward of Winterfell. Killed during the purge of the Stark household in the Red Keep.
- Jeyne Poole, his daughter. Forced to impersonate Arya Stark and marry Ramsay Bolton. Escaped Winterfell with Theon Greyjoy. Now in custody of Stannis Baratheon.
- Ser {Rodrik Cassel}, master-at-arms and castellan of Winterfell. Killed by Ramsay Snow prior to the Sack of Winterfell.
- Beth Cassel, his daughter. Imprisoned at the Dreadfort.
- {Jory Cassel}, Captain of Lord Eddard's guards. Killed by Ser Jaime Lannister's men.
- {Alyn}, guardsman, founding member of the Brotherhood Without Banners. Now dead.
- {Tomard}, guardsman. Called "Fat Tom". Killed by goldcloaks during the arrest of Ned Stark.
- TomToo, his son. Fate unknown.
- {Wyl} and {Heward}, guardsmen. Killed by Jaime Lannister's men.
- {Desmond}, guardsman. Killed during the arrest of Ned Stark.
- {Cayn}, guardsman. Killed by Sandor Clegane during the arrest of Ned Stark.
- Calon, his son. Fate unknown.
- {Porther}, guardsman. Killed during the purge of the Stark household in the Red Keep.
- {Varly}, guardsman. Killed by Janos Slynt during the arrest of Ned Stark.
- Hallis Mollen, Jory's successor as captain of guards. Fate unknown since being sent escorting Lord Eddard's bones to Winterfell.
- Quent, Jacks and Shadd, guardsmen. Fate unknown since being sent escorting Lord Eddard's bones to Winterfell.
- {Alebelly}, a guardsman. Killed during the Battle of Winterfell.
- {Hayhead}, {Skittrick}, {Wayn}, guardsmen. Fate unknown. Likely killed during Sack of Winterfell.
- {Poxy Tym}, a guardsman. Killed during the Sack of Winterfell
- {Hullen}, master of horse. Killed during the purge of the Stark household in the Red Keep.
- Harwin, his son, a guardsman. Founding member of the Brotherhood Without Banners. Currently with Lady Stoneheart's band.
- {Joseth}, Hullen's successor as master of horse. Fate unknown. Likely killed during Sack of Winterfell.
- Bandy and Shyra, his twin daughters, now imprisoned at the Dreadfort.
- Septa {Mordane}, tutor to Lord Eddard's daughters. Killed during the purge of the Stark household in the Red Keep.
- Septon {Chayle}, keeper of Winterfell's sept and library. Drowned as a sacrifice to the Drowned God after the Fall of Winterfell
- {Mikken}, blacksmith and armorer. Killed by Stygg after the Fall of Winterfell.
- {Farlen}, kennelmaster of Winterfell. Killed by Theon Greyjoy.
- Palla, his daughter, a kennelgirl. Imprisoned at the Dreadfort.
- Nan, known as "Old Nan", storyteller and once a wet-nurse. Imprisoned at the Dreadfort, possibly dead.
- Walder, known as "Hodor", a simpleminded stableboy. Now with Bran Stark beyond the Wall.
- {Gage}, the cook. Fate unknown. Likely killed during Sack of Winterfell.
- Turnip, his child. Imprisoned at the Dreadfort.
- Osha, of the Free Folk, imprisoned and serving as kitchen drudge. Now with Rickon Stark at Skagos.
- {Syrio Forel}, Arya's fencing instructor and former First Sword of Braavos. Presumed killed in King's Landing by Ser Meryn Trant during the purge of the Stark household in the Red Keep.
References in the books
A Song of Ice and Fire
- After taking up his duties as Hand, Lord Eddard Stark assigns twenty of Winterfell's household guard to assist the Gold Cloaks in keeping order in King's Landing.
- Twenty more greycloaks ride with Beric Dondarrion to hunt down Gregor Clegane; most of them are killed in the Battle at the Mummer's Ford. Alyn, Harwin, and others help found the Brotherhood Without Banners.
- Ser Rodrik Cassel leads six hundred Winterfell men, among others, to battle the ironborn under Dagmer Cleftjaw.
- On his return to Winterfell, Rodrik and his men mean to liberate the castle from Theon Greyjoy, but are betrayed and routed by Ramsay Snow.
- Soldiers bearing the colors of House Stark have washed up on the shores of the Quiet Isle. According to the Elder Brother, they are buried alongside their enemies.
Sworn Houses
- House Reed of Greywater Watch. Meera and Jojen Reed are with Bran, Summer and Hodor beyond the Wall.
- House Glover of Deepwood Motte. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Mormont of Bear Island. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Umber of Last Hearth. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Manderly of White Harbor. Wyman Manderly has sent Davos Seaworth to find his liege lord in Skagos.
- House Flint of the northern mountain clans. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Wull of the northern mountain clans. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Norrey of the northern mountain clans. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Liddle of the northern mountain clans. Allied with Stannis Baratheon against House Bolton.
- House Tully of Riverrun. Swears allegiance when Robb is named King in the North and of the Trident. Now stripped of lands and titles by the Iron Throne.
- House Westerling of the Crag. Joins Robb's cause after he marries Jeyne Westerling. Now accepted back into the king's peace.
" | The winters are hard, but the Starks will endure. We always have.[7] | " |
– Eddard Stark to Robert
" | Tyrion: You Starks are hard to kill.
Robb: You Lannisters had best remember that.[8] |
" |
– Robb Stark to Tyrion
" | The Starks look for courage and loyalty and honor in the men they choose to serve them. [9] | " |
" | The wolves will come again. | " |
" | Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.[10] | " |
– Lyanna Mormont to Stannis
" | Maester Theomore, tell them! A thousand years before the Conquest, a promise was made, and oaths were sworn in the Wolf's Den before the old gods and the new. When we were sore beset and friendless, hounded from our homes and in peril of our lives, the wolves took us in and nourished us and protected us against our enemies. The city is built upon the land they gave us. In return we swore that we should always be their men. STARK men![11] | " |
References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: The Stark Family, June 10, 2003
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Appendix.
- ↑ So Spake Martin 1 and 2 February 17, 2006
- ↑ George R. R. Martin Not A Blog July 2, 2012
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 24, Bran.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 42, Tyrion.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 19, Davos.
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passed away at the home of his son and daughter in law, Bill and Sandy Miller,
on Thursday, October 4, 2012. For nearly ten years he had made his home with his
daughter and son in law, Bonnie and John Shanks of Forestport.
He was born in Utica, on February 11, 1922, a son of Frank and Margaret Prye Miller.
William grew up in Utica, where he received his education. Mr. Miller was
employed as an auto body repairman at various garages in the Utica area and for
many years at the Roundhouse Garage, of Utica, later moving from Chadwicks to
the Woodgate area, retiring from employment from the Forestport Town Highway
Department. He enjoyed hunting and fishing.
On November 6, 1943, William was united in marriage with Elizabeth J. "Betty" Sloma, at Blessed Sacrament
Church, Utica. Mrs. Miller died on September 4, 1991.
William is survived by one son and daughter in law, William J. "Bill" Miller, Jr., and
Sandy, Forestport, and their children, Douglas and Gary Miller, three daughters
and two sons in law, Bonnie L. and John Shanks, Forestport, and their children,
Cynthia Shanks and Carrie Clover, Barbara A. Sprowell, Hamlin, NY, and her
children, Daniel Sprowell and Kristy Osgood and Beverley A. Singson, and Manny,
Enola, PA, and their children, Dana and Branndon Singson and twelve great
He was predeceased by a son in law, Michael Sprowell, in
1995, and by one brother, Leo, and three sisters, Betty Cantor, Lillian Rotundo
and Jenny Swalgin. He is also survived by a special friend, Shirley Finster,
Port Leyden.
A visitation will be Saturday from 10 AM until 12 Noon at Trainor Funeral Home, Inc. 143 Schuyler St. Boonville, with services to follow at 12:45 PM at Woodgate Cemetery, Rt. 28, Woodgate. Memorial contributions may
be made to Hospice and Pallaitive Care, Inc, 4277 Middle Settlement Rd. New
Hartford, NY 13413. For an on-line message of sympathy, or to share a memory of
William, please go to www.trainorfuneralhome.com
7606 North State Street
Lowville, NY 13367-1318
(315) 376-7500
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