House Baratheon

House Baratheon is one of the Great Houses of Westeros, although also one of the youngest. It is the current royal house.

Members

 * King Robert Baratheon, the head of the family and the King on the Iron Throne.
 * His wife, Queen Cersei Baratheon, of House Lannister.
 * Their eldest son and heir, Joffrey Baratheon.
 * Their daughter, Myrcella Baratheon.
 * Their youngest son, Tommen Baratheon.
 * Robert's younger brother Stannis Baratheon.
 * Robert's youngest brother Renly Baratheon.

In the books
In the Song of Ice and Fire novels, Orys Baratheon was the bastard half-brother of King Aegon I Targaryen, the founder of the Seven Kingdoms. Orys led an army which slew the last of the Storm Kings, Argilac the Arrogance, and captured his castle of Storm's End. For his leal service, Orys was made a lord and allowed to found his own Great House. At just under 300 years, this makes House Baratheon the youngest by far of the Great Houses.

House Baratheon has ruled over the tempest-wracked south-eastern shores of Westeros, the area known as the Stormlands, ever since. It has produced a number of great and notable warriors, such as Ser Lyonel Baratheon, the Laughing Storm, and married into the royal House Targaryen several generations ago.

When Robert Baratheon's betrothed, Lyanna Stark, was kidnapped by Rhaegar Targaryen, he was enraged and raised his banners in rebellion against King Aerys, along with Lyanna's brother (and Robert's best friend) Eddard. They were joined by several other houses in a civil war known as Robert's Rebellion. Robert's army smashed the royal host at the Battle of the Trident and put it to rout. The treachery of House Lannister delivered the capital at King's Landing to Robert. With Lyanna killed during the war, Robert agreed to marry Cersei Lannister in gratitude for her father's pledge of fealty.

Robert became King and he made his younger brother Stannis the Lord of Dragonstone, the ancestral island stronghold of the Targaryens, and his youngest brother Renly Lord of the familial seat at Storm's End.