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Game of Thrones is a story about a handful of families, and nearly every betrayal in it follows a family line. This family tree joins the great houses in one chart: the Starks of Winterfell, the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, the Baratheons, the last Targaryens and the Tullys, Arryns and Tyrells they married into. It also shows the two secrets the whole series turns on: who fathered Cersei’s children, and who Jon Snow’s parents really were.

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The Game of Thrones family tree chart

Each house starts at the top with the generation of Rickard Stark, Tywin Lannister and Steffon Baratheon, and the chart joins them where they married. Dashed lines show marriages that ended, Ned Stark raising Jon, and Robert Baratheon as the legal (not biological) father of Cersei’s children.

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Game of Thrones family tree joining House Stark, House Lannister, House Baratheon, House Targaryen, House Tully, House Arryn and House Tyrell, including Jon Snow's parents Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark
How to use: Drag to move · pinch, Ctrl + scroll or + / − to zoom Click anyone to highlight their parents, partners, children and siblings
How to read the lines
  • A short line between two people joins a couple; a dashed couple line means the marriage or relationship ended.
  • A line going down from a couple (or one parent) to a horizontal bar leads to their children, who sit side by side on the row below.
  • A dashed parent line with a small label marks an adoptive, step or guardian parent rather than a birth parent.
  • Long lines across the chart join people who married into another branch. Click either person to see the connection highlighted.

The great houses of Game of Thrones as the HBO series ends them. Drawn with the Modern Minimal style of our family tree maker. Open the full-size image or open it in the editor to rearrange it.

Branch-by-branch family trees

The whole Game of Thrones family tree is wide because every generation sits on one row. These smaller charts follow one branch at a time: a person, their partners and all of their descendants. Click a chart to explore it above, or open it full size.

House Stark of Winterfell

The Starks have ruled the North for thousands of years. At the start of the series Lord Eddard “Ned” Stark lives at Winterfell with his wife Catelyn, born a Tully of Riverrun, their five children Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon, and Jon Snow, whom Ned calls his bastard son. Ned’s father Rickard and elder brother Brandon were killed by the Mad King, and his sister Lyanna died at the end of Robert’s Rebellion.

By the finale three of Ned’s children are still alive and powerful: Sansa is Queen in the North, Bran is king of the other six kingdoms, and Arya sails west of Westeros. Through Catelyn the Starks are tied to the Tullys and, through Catelyn’s sister Lysa, to House Arryn of the Vale, which is why young Robin Arryn is the Stark children’s cousin.

House Lannister of Casterly Rock

Tywin Lannister had three children with his wife and cousin Joanna: the twins Cersei and Jaime, and Tyrion, whose birth cost Joanna her life. Tywin’s brother Kevan and his son Lancel complete the branch shown here.

The Lannister secret is the reason the chart shows two fathers for the royal children. Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen are officially King Robert Baratheon’s, but their biological father is Jaime, Cersei’s twin. Ned Stark discovers this by reading a genealogy of the great houses: every Baratheon child for generations had black hair, and Cersei’s children are all golden. The chart draws Robert’s link as a step relationship, which is how a family tree records a legal parent who is not the birth parent.

House Baratheon of Storm’s End

Robert Baratheon took the Iron Throne after defeating the Targaryens, partly because his grandmother Rhaelle was a Targaryen princess, which you can trace on the Targaryen family tree. When Robert dies, the question of who inherits sets off the War of the Five Kings: his “sons” Joffrey and Tommen in King’s Landing, and his brothers Stannis and Renly, who each claim the crown. Robert’s only surviving biological child is Gendry, a blacksmith’s apprentice, whom Daenerys legitimises as Lord of Storm’s End.

The Targaryens in exile

Only two children of the Mad King survive the rebellion: Viserys, who sells his sister to the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo for an army, and Daenerys, who hatches three dragons. Their older brother Rhaegar’s children by Elia Martell were killed during the Sack of King’s Landing. The full history of the dynasty, from Aegon the Conqueror onwards, is on our Targaryen family tree, and the civil war 170 years earlier on the House of the Dragon family tree.

Who are Jon Snow’s real parents?

Jon Snow is not Ned Stark’s son. In season six Bran’s vision at the Tower of Joy shows Lyanna Stark giving birth to Jon and asking Ned to protect him; in season seven Bran and Samwell Tarly learn that Rhaegar Targaryen had his marriage to Elia annulled and secretly married Lyanna. Jon’s real name is Aegon Targaryen.

On the family tree that makes Jon Ned’s nephew and the cousin of Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon, rather than their half-brother. It also makes him Daenerys’s nephew, because Rhaegar was her brother. Our relationship calculator gives the same answers if you enter the links yourself.

Marriages that join the houses

Most of the plot happens along the lines that join one house to another. Ned marries Catelyn Tully, binding the North to the Riverlands. Robert marries Cersei, binding the crown to Lannister gold. Margaery Tyrell marries three kings in a row: Renly, Joffrey and Tommen. Sansa is married first to Tyrion Lannister and then to Ramsay Bolton, and each marriage is a move in someone else’s game. A family tree makes these alliances visible at once.

Who’s who in the Game of Thrones family tree, generation by generation

Everyone in the chart above, oldest generation first. People who married into the family are listed with their partner’s generation. Photos show the actors who play the characters. Photos are freely licensed and credited below; children are shown without photos.

Generation 1

  • Rickard Stark

    Lord of Winterfell

    Burned alive by the Mad King, a cause of Robert’s Rebellion.

  • Hoster Tully

    Lord of Riverrun

  • Tytos Lannister

    Lord of Casterly Rock

  • Cassana Baratheon (née Estermont)

  • Steffon Baratheon

    Lord of Storm’s End

    Grandson of Rhaelle Targaryen.

  • Diana Rigg, who plays Olenna Tyrell

    Olenna Tyrell (née Redwyne)

    Played by Diana Rigg

    Queen of Thorns

    Admits to poisoning Joffrey.

  • David Rintoul, who plays Aerys II Targaryen

    Aerys II Targaryen

    Played by David Rintoul

    The Mad King

    Killed by Jaime Lannister.

  • Rhaella Targaryen

    Queen

Generation 2

  • Brandon Stark

    Ned’s elder brother, killed with his father by Aerys II.

  • Sean Bean, who plays Eddard Stark

    Eddard Stark

    Played by Sean Bean

    Lord of Winterfell

    Hand of the King to Robert; beheaded on Joffrey’s order.

  • Michelle Fairley, who plays Catelyn Stark

    Catelyn Stark (née Tully)

    Played by Michelle Fairley

    Killed at the Red Wedding.

  • Aisling Franciosi, who plays Lyanna Stark

    Lyanna Stark

    Played by Aisling Franciosi

    Betrothed to Robert Baratheon; died at the Tower of Joy after giving birth to Jon.

  • Joseph Mawle, who plays Benjen Stark

    Benjen Stark

    Played by Joseph Mawle

    First Ranger of the Night’s Watch

  • Kate Dickie, who plays Lysa Arryn

    Lysa Arryn (née Tully)

    Played by Kate Dickie

    Catelyn’s sister; pushed through the Moon Door by Littlefinger.

  • Tobias Menzies, who plays Edmure Tully

    Edmure Tully

    Played by Tobias Menzies

    Lord of Riverrun

    His wedding to Roslin Frey is the Red Wedding.

  • Jon Arryn

    Hand of the King

    His death sets the story in motion.

  • Charles Dance, who plays Tywin Lannister

    Tywin Lannister

    Played by Charles Dance

    Hand of the King

    Head of the family; killed by Tyrion.

  • Joanna Lannister

    Tywin’s cousin and wife; died giving birth to Tyrion.

  • Kevan Lannister

    Tywin’s loyal brother.

  • Mark Addy, who plays Robert Baratheon

    Robert Baratheon

    Played by Mark Addy

    King

    Took the throne after his rebellion; killed by a boar.

  • Stephen Dillane, who plays Stannis Baratheon

    Stannis Baratheon

    Played by Stephen Dillane

    Claimant king

  • Tara Fitzgerald, who plays Selyse Baratheon

    Selyse Baratheon (née Florent)

    Played by Tara Fitzgerald

  • Gethin Anthony, who plays Renly Baratheon

    Renly Baratheon

    Played by Gethin Anthony

    Claimant king

    Killed by a shadow conjured by Melisandre.

  • Roger Ashton-Griffiths, who plays Mace Tyrell

    Mace Tyrell

    Played by Roger Ashton-Griffiths

    Lord of Highgarden

  • Wilf Scolding, who plays Rhaegar Targaryen

    Rhaegar Targaryen

    Played by Wilf Scolding

    Crown Prince

    Killed by Robert at the Trident.

  • Harry Lloyd, who plays Viserys Targaryen

    Viserys Targaryen

    Played by Harry Lloyd

    Crowned with molten gold by Khal Drogo.

  • Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen

    Daenerys Targaryen

    Played by Emilia Clarke

    Mother of Dragons

    Killed by Jon after burning King’s Landing.

  • Jason Momoa, who plays Drogo

    Drogo

    Played by Jason Momoa

    Khal

    Daenerys’s husband, a Dothraki warlord.

Generation 3

  • Lino Facioli, who plays Robin Arryn

    Robin Arryn

    Played by Lino Facioli

    Lord of the Eyrie

    Called Robert in the books.

  • Richard Madden, who plays Robb Stark

    Robb Stark

    Played by Richard Madden

    King in the North

    Killed at the Red Wedding.

  • Oona Chaplin, who plays Talisa Stark

    Talisa Stark

    Played by Oona Chaplin

    A healer from Volantis, created for the series.

  • Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark

    Sansa Stark

    Played by Sophie Turner

    Queen in the North

    Ends the series as ruler of an independent North.

  • Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark

    Arya Stark

    Played by Maisie Williams

    Trains with the Faceless Men and kills the Night King.

  • Isaac Hempstead Wright, who plays Bran Stark

    Bran Stark

    Played by Isaac Hempstead Wright

    King of the Six Kingdoms

    The Three-Eyed Raven; chosen king at the end.

  • Rickon Stark

    Killed by Ramsay Bolton at the Battle of the Bastards.

  • Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow

    Jon Snow

    Played by Kit Harington

    Lord Commander, King in the North

    Raised as Ned’s bastard; actually the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna.

  • Eugene Simon, who plays Lancel Lannister

    Lancel Lannister

    Played by Eugene Simon

    Kevan’s son, later a zealot of the Faith Militant.

  • Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister

    Cersei Lannister

    Played by Lena Headey

    Queen

    Queen to Robert, then ruling queen in her own right.

  • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister

    Jaime Lannister

    Played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

    Kingsguard

    The Kingslayer; Cersei’s twin and the father of her children.

  • Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister

    Tyrion Lannister

    Played by Peter Dinklage

    Hand of the King

    Hand to Joffrey, Daenerys and finally Bran.

  • Kerry Ingram, who plays Shireen Baratheon

    Shireen Baratheon

    Played by Kerry Ingram

    Burned as a sacrifice by her own father.

  • Joe Dempsie, who plays Gendry Baratheon

    Gendry Baratheon

    Played by Joe Dempsie

    Lord of Storm’s End

    Robert’s son by a woman in King’s Landing; legitimised by Daenerys.

  • Natalie Dormer, who plays Margaery Tyrell

    Margaery Tyrell

    Played by Natalie Dormer

    Queen

    Married Renly, Joffrey and Tommen in turn.

  • Finn Jones, who plays Loras Tyrell

    Loras Tyrell

    Played by Finn Jones

    Knight of Flowers

Generation 4

  • Jack Gleeson, who plays Joffrey Baratheon

    Joffrey Baratheon

    Played by Jack Gleeson

    King

    Poisoned at his own wedding feast.

  • Nell Tiger Free, who plays Myrcella Baratheon

    Myrcella Baratheon

    Played by Nell Tiger Free

    Princess

  • Dean-Charles Chapman, who plays Tommen Baratheon

    Tommen Baratheon

    Played by Dean-Charles Chapman

    King

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Questions about the Game of Thrones family tree

How is Jon Snow related to Daenerys?

Jon Snow is Daenerys Targaryen’s nephew. His father Rhaegar was Daenerys’s older brother, so she is his aunt.

Who are Jon Snow’s parents?

Jon’s parents are Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Ned Stark, Lyanna’s brother, raised him as his own illegitimate son to keep him safe from Robert Baratheon.

Who is the father of Cersei’s children?

Jaime Lannister, Cersei’s twin brother, is the biological father of Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen. King Robert Baratheon was their legal father.

How are the Starks and the Tullys related?

Catelyn Stark was born a Tully, the daughter of Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun. Her brother Edmure Tully is the Stark children’s uncle, and her sister Lysa’s son Robin Arryn is their first cousin.

Is Robert Baratheon related to Daenerys?

Yes, distantly. Robert’s grandmother Rhaelle was a daughter of King Aegon V Targaryen, and Daenerys’s grandfather Jaehaerys II was Rhaelle’s brother. Their parents, Steffon Baratheon and Aerys II, were first cousins, which makes Robert and Daenerys second cousins.

Who rules at the end of Game of Thrones?

Bran Stark is chosen as king of the Six Kingdoms, with Tyrion Lannister as his Hand, while Sansa Stark rules the North as an independent queen.

Can I make my own Game of Thrones family tree?

Yes. Open this tree in the editor and add any characters you like, such as the Greyjoys or the Martells, then print it as a poster or download it as an image.

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Sources and notes

Game of Thrones and its characters are fictional. This family tree is an independent fan reference and is not affiliated with or endorsed by HBO, Warner Bros. Discovery or George R. R. Martin. It follows the HBO series, which differs from the books in places (for example Robb Stark’s wife and Robin Arryn’s name).

Photo credits (36)
  • George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire (1996–)
  • HBO, Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
  • A Wiki of Ice and Fire

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