Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1399600-20160629121258/@comment-79.143.165.63-20160705220929

You don't have to be a Stark to be Lord of Winterfell (Ramsay, Roose). But I tend to agree that Bran is the rightful lord of House Stark while Sansa is, for now, the official lord/lady, even though putting Jon as the de facto lord would make sense. I wouldn't put it that the Starks are vassals to Jon because Jon's kingship is based solely on the idea that he has Ned's blood, making him a Stark in everything but name. The lords of the North wouldn't have made him king if he was, for example, the son of lord Flint of Widow's Watch. I wouldn't delve too much in the whole Jon is a Targ thing because no one but Bran (and Howland Reed) knows at this point that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son, and even then he doesn't know if he'd still be a bastard or not.