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House Bolton
House Bolton

Walda Bolton: "Please, Ramsay ... he's your brother!"
Ramsay Bolton: "I prefer being an only child."
Walda Bolton unsuccessfully attempts to plead for the life of her son.[src]

Roose Bolton's son was killed alongside his mother, Walda Bolton, shortly after his birth by his paternal half-brother, Ramsay Bolton.

Biography[]

Game of Thrones: Season 5[]

During a family dinner attended by Ramsay's betrothed, Lady Sansa Stark, Roose becomes increasingly irritated by his son's behavior. He has Walda announce the news that she is pregnant, and that from the way she is carrying, Maester Wolkan expects it is a boy. Ramsay is visibly distressed by the news, and expresses his distress after dinner. Though Roose dismisses his concern about his position, he subtly warns Ramsay that he better behave himself if he wants to keep it.[1]

Ramsay later tells Sansa that he will one day be Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, but Sansa retorts that if Walda gives birth to a boy he will overtake Ramsay as Roose's heir, as a trueborn will have a stronger claim than a legitimized bastard.[2]

Game of Thrones: Season 6[]

Following the battle in the ice, Sansa escapes from the castle with the aid of Theon, whom Ramsay had previously captured and tortured into accepting a new identity as "Reek". Despite their victory over Stannis, Roose is disappointed in Ramsay for allowing Sansa to escape, and states that if he is unable to produce an heir, that responsibility may pass to his son by Walda.[3]

After the squad that Ramsay sends after them is wiped out due to the intervention of Brienne and Pod, Roose expresses his disappointment once again, and is angered by Ramsay's suggestion that they should attack Castle Black to retrieve Sansa and kill her half-brother Jon Snow, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. It is then that Maester Wolkan announces Walda has given birth to a healthy baby boy. When Ramsay goes to embrace Roose in congratulations, he suddenly stabs his father in the chest, killing him, and commands the Maester to bring Lady Walda and the baby to him in the courtyard.[4]

Walda arrives to meet with "Lord Bolton", where Ramsay receives her, taking his newborn brother in his arms momentarily, before handing him back over to his mother. He then guides her into the kennels, where he says Lord Bolton is waiting for her, and locks the gate behind them, before proceeding to open the cages of his hounds one by one. Walda soon realizes what is happening, and demands to see Lord Bolton, at which point Ramsay announces; "I am Lord Bolton". Realizing her husband is dead, Walda begs to be allowed to leave and return to her grandfather in the Riverlands, promising she will never return to Winterfell again, and reminds Ramsay that what he is about to do, he's about to do to his own brother. Ramsay replies that he prefers to be an only child, and sets the hounds on Walda and the baby, who tear them apart.[4]

Family[]

Paternal[]

Famtree-Unknown
Miller's
wife

Deceased
 
Famtree-RooseBolton
Roose
Bolton

Deceased
 
Famtree-WaldaFrey
Walda Bolton
née Frey House Frey
Deceased
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Famtree-RamsayBolton
Ramsay
Bolton

Deceased
 
Famtree-SansaStark
Sansa
Stark
House StarkSansa Stark

 
Famtree-BoltonNewborn
Son

Deceased
 

Maternal[]

 
 
 
 
 
 
Famtree-WalderFrey
Walder
Frey


Deceased
 
House-Frey-heraldry
Seven wives
and other
mistresses
Deceased
 
Famtree-JoyeuseErenford
Joyeuse Frey
née Erenford House Erenford
8th wife
Deceased
 
Famtree-KittyFrey
Kitty
Frey

9th wife

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Famtree-StevronFrey
Stevron
Frey

Deceased
 
Famtree-LotharFrey
Lothar
Frey

Deceased
 
Famtree-EdmureTully
Edmure
Tully
House Tully

 
Famtree-RoslinFrey
Roslin
Frey


 
House-Frey-heraldry
Children

Sons deceased
 
Famtree-WalderRivers
Walder
Rivers

Deceased
 
Famtree-RygerRivers
Ryger
Rivers

Deceased
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
House-Tully-heraldry
Son


 
Famtree-RooseBolton
Roose
Bolton
House Bolton
Deceased
 
Famtree-WaldaFrey
Walda
Frey

Deceased
 
House-Frey-heraldry
Grandchildren


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Famtree-BoltonNewborn
Son House Bolton

Deceased
 

In the books[]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, it is mentioned Walda is pregnant in the last of Theon's POV chapters in the fifth novel, but she has not given birth yet.[5] At the point the books reached, she and Roose are still alive.

After Roose tells Reek about his trueborn son Domeric's death, he comments that Ramsay will probably also attempt to kill any trueborn children that Walda gives birth to.[6] Roose also explains to Reek a major reason that he won't kill Ramsay to prevent this: he is hesitant to place the fate of his entire House on a child lord. Roose is no longer a young man, and there is a good chance that Walda's baby will only grow to adulthood after he dies. He observes that noble Houses have often been destroyed by their enemies when underaged children rule (for example, young Tommen Baratheon's reign is currently falling apart). Either way, House Bolton's recently acquired rule over the North is tenuous enough that, in Roose's estimation, this period of weak rule would guarantee a revolt against them by the Northern vassal houses, all of whom lost family at the Red Wedding due to the Boltons' betrayal. Thus Roose hopes that Ramsay will shape up to be a more capable ruler but as his bastard son's impulsive behavior continues, Roose begins to worry that he will never be fit to lead House Bolton after him.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 5: "Kill the Boy" (2015).
  2. Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 7: "The Gift" (2015).
  3. Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 1: "The Red Woman" (2016).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 2: "Home" (2016).
  5. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon (2011).
  6. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III (2011).

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 6 in 303 AC.


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