Tully (son of Edmure)

Biography

Season 6

During the Second Siege of Riverrun, Jaime Lannister makes a deal with Edmure Tully: if Edmure surrenders Riverrun, Jaime will allow Edmure to live a comfortable life with his son and wife. However, if he doesn't, Jaime threatens to have his son brought to Riverrun and catapulted into the castle. Fearing for the life of his son, Edmure capitulates, and orders his men to stand down and open the gates to the Frey and Lannister troops.^[1]

After the siege is resolved, Walder Frey hosts a feast for both the Freys and the Lannisters at the Twins to celebrate, where he reveals that he has had Edmure re-imprisoned; the whereabouts and status of Edmure's son is left unsaid, although it is presumed that he is safe with his mother.

Family tree

Paternal

Hoster Tully Deceased

Minisa Tully née Whent Deceased

Brynden Tully Deceased

Eddard Stark Deceased

Catelyn Tully Deceased

Jon Arryn Deceased

Lysa Tully Deceased

Petyr Baelish Deceased

Edmure Tully

Roslin Tully née Frey

Unnamed son Stillborn

Robb Stark Deceased

Talisa Stark née Maegyr Deceased

Tyrion Lannister

Sansa Stark

Ramsay Bolton Deceased

Arya Stark

Bran Stark

Rickon Stark Deceased

Robin Arryn

Newborn Tully

Maternal

Walder Frey Deceased

Seven wives, and numerous mistresses Deceased

Joyeuse Frey née Erenford Walder's 8th wife Deceased

Kitty Frey Walder's 9th wife

Stevron Frey Deceased

"Lame Lothar" Frey Deceased

Edmure Tully

Roslin Frey

Various sons and daughters All Sons Deceased

"Black Walder" Rivers Deceased

Ryger Rivers Deceased

Newborn Tully

Roose Bolton Deceased

"Fat Walda" Frey Deceased

Numerous grandsons and granddaughters

Newborn Bolton Deceased

In the books

In A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Edmure did impregnate Roslin on their wedding night in the third book, but less than nine months pass by the time Jaime confronts the captive Edmure at the second siege of Riverrun in the fourth book, thus Roslin is still pregnant when last seen. The TV series pushed back the Riverrun subplot, so more time has passed between the Red Wedding (at the end of Season 3) and when Jaime confronts the captive Edmure (in Season 6) - and thus enough time had to have passed for Roslin to give birth to the child (particularly due to the timing of Walda Bolton's pregnancy, given that it was a more important plot point that she married Roose after the Red Wedding but had time to give birth to a son by Season 6).

Since Edmure's child with Roslin hasn't been born yet, its name is unknown. For that matter, it is unconfirmed if it will be a boy or girl, though the TV series went ahead to say it is a boy (it is unclear if this is based on information Martin gave them).

In the books, Roslin's brother Perwyn says that she has been praying that her child will be a girl, fearing that if she gives birth to a boy her father will have no more need of her husband. Edmure knows about his wife's pregnancy, but is unaware that if the child turns out to be a boy, the Freys will dispose of him. Jaime promises Edmure, among his other terms of surrender, that he will send Roslin to join him in Casterly Rock under gentle imprisonment befitting a lord of his status; if her child is a boy, he will serve House Lannister as a page and a squire, and when he earns his knighthood they'll bestow some lands upon him; if Roslin gives birth to a daughter, Jaime will see her well dowered when she’s old enough to wed.

Jaime threatens Edmure that if he does not convince Riverrun to surrender, as soon as Roslin gives birth he will deliver Edmure's newborn child to the castle by firing it at the walls using a trebuchet. In the TV version Jaime threatened to do this with "a catapult" - a trebuchet is a bigger kind of catapult, though apparently the line was changed in case some viewers didn't know what a "trebuchet" was (the effect on the line is negligible). In the novels, this chapter is told from Jaime's inner POV narration, making it clear that this was actually an empty threat and he would never kill a baby - but he knows his enemies think of him as the honorless "Kingslayer" who would stoop to anything, so he decides to play up that false reputation to convince Edmure he isn't bluffing, when in fact he is. This isn't as clear in the TV version without Jaime's POV thought narration, however, in the behind the scenes video for that episode, Nikolaj Caster-Waldau (Jaime) indeed makes it clear that TV-Jaime was bluffing and wouldn't have actually killed Edmure's baby.

References

v • d • e House Tully
Lord:	Edmure Tully	Heir:	Unidentified son
Seat:	Riverrun	Lands:	The Riverlands
Title(s):	Lord Paramount of the Riverlands · Lord of Riverrun
Ancestors:	Edmyn Tully
Current members:	Roslin Tully
Deceased members:	Catelyn Stark · Hoster Tully · Minisa Tully · Lysa Arryn · Brynden Tully