Alyrie Florent

Alyrie Florent
Biographical information
Died	By 112 AC (aged 33 at most)
Political information
House(s)	Florent Hightower (by marriage)
Personal information
Culture	Reach
Religion	Faith of the Seven
Spouse(s)	Otto Hightower
Issue	Gwayne Hightower Alicent Hightower Son(s)

Alyrie Florent was the wife of Otto Hightower and mother of Gwayne and Alicent Hightower.

Biography

Background

Alyrie went to live at the royal court in the Red Keep when her son Gwayne was eight years old, leaving him to grow up motherless.

House of the Dragon: Season 1

At a Small Council meeting in 112 AC, Daemon reminds Otto that his wife had passed away recently. During the coup in King's Landing, Otto remarks that Alicent resembles her mother in certain lights.

House of the Dragon: Season 2

Alicent lights a candle for her deceased mother at the Grand Sept, speaking her name.

Family

Hobert Hightower Deceased

Lynesse Hightower

Otto Hightower

Alyrie Florent Deceased

Ormund Hightower

Gwayne Hightower

Viserys I Targaryen Deceased

Alicent Hightower

Son(s)

Aegon II Targaryen

Helaena Targaryen

Aemond Targaryen

Daeron Targaryen

Jaehaerys Targaryen Deceased

Jaehaera Targaryen

Behind the scenes

According to Emily Carey, who portrays young Alicent Hightower, Alyrie was deeply devout to the Faith of the Seven, beliefs that Alicent shares to connect with her late mother.

In the book Fire & Blood, Alicent's mother was simply never identified, not even which House she was from. She was only mentioned once and in passing: when Otto Hightower was first named Hand of the King in the last years of the reign of old King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, he brought "his wife and children" with him to court. Afterward no mention of her is made at all, tacitly implying that she died early in Viserys's reign but not specifying when or how. According to Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon: Inside the Creation of a Targaryen Dynasty, Alicent's mother died "after a long illness" (as opposed to a death in childbirth like Aemma Arryn).

In the main A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the wife of Mace Tyrell, and mother to Margaery and Loras, is named Alerie Hightower (who is still alive in the books but was cut from the TV series). The TV writers chose a similar name apparently with the logic that "Alerie/Alyrie" is a common name for noblewomen in the southern Reach.

House Florent is one of the other major noble families in the southern half of the Reach, whose lands are northwest of the Hightowers' at Oldtown. It is common for the major houses in the Reach to intermarry for political alliances: Samwell Tarly's mother is Melessa Florent, who is the first cousin to Stannis Baratheon's wife Selyse Florent. House Florent feels that they were passed over when House Targaryen awarded rule of the Reach to House Tyrell instead of them after the Aegon's Conquest, as the Florents were closely related to House Gardener while the Tyrells were only "upjumped stewards." Otto's own wife being a Florent would line up with how during this time period, only one century after the Conquest, the Hightowers functionally behave as if they are the rulers of the Reach and expect all the other vassals to fall in line behind them - even though the Tyrells are their legal overlords. In response, several of the other bannermen in the north of the Reach - such as House Caswell - are annoyed that Otto and House Hightower are overextending their authority.

Appearances

• – "The Heirs of the Dragon" (mentioned)
• – "The Rogue Prince" (mentioned)
• – "The Green Council" (mentioned)
• – "A Son for a Son" (mentioned)
• – "The Burning Mill" (mentioned)
• – "Smallfolk" (mentioned)

References

Notes

House Florent
Head	Unknown	Heir	Unknown
Seat	Brightwater Keep	Region	Reach
Deceased	Alyrie Florent
Overlords	House Tyrell