Execution of Eddard Stark
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The execution of Eddard Stark is the public beheading of Lord Eddard Stark, Hand of the King, before the Sept of Baelor in King's Landing, ordered by the newly crowned Joffrey Baratheon.
Stark had charged that Queen Cersei Lannister's children held no legitimate claim to the throne, and that accusation of treason led to his arrest and death. The sentence shatters any truce between the Crown and the North and pushes several lords of the realm into open rebellion.
Arrest of Eddard
Before dying of wounds from a hunting accident, King Robert Baratheon leaves Eddard Stark as Hand of the King, and with that office the power to decide the succession. Stark charges that Queen Cersei's children are not the king's own, and therefore have no right to the crown.
The accusation is not enough to unseat the Lannisters from power. Eddard is arrested before he can act on his own charge, and his household falls with him in the streets of King's Landing.
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Death
Joffrey Baratheon, already crowned king, orders Eddard Stark's death for treason. The sentence is carried out in public, before the Sept of Baelor, by the blade of Ilyn Payne, with Sansa and Arya Stark among those present.
The execution does not settle the crisis: several lords of the realm take it as a declaration of war against the Crown and rise in open rebellion, the opening move of the War of the Five Kings.
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Participants
Sides
House Stark
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Who was there
- Eddard StarkLord of WinterfellAppears in Arrest of Eddard, Death
- Joffrey BaratheonPrince of the Seven Kingdoms
- Arya StarkPrincess of Winterfell
No entry in the atlas: Ilyn Payne · Sansa Stark
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Others in the account
- StarkAppears in Arrest of Eddard, Death
- LannisterAppears in Arrest of Eddard, Death
- BaratheonAppears in Arrest of Eddard, Death
- Cersei LannisterAppears in Arrest of Eddard
- Sansa StarkAppears in Death
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Books and show
The show and the books
| Show | Books | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 298 AC | 298 AC |
| Place | King's Landing | King's Landing |
| Outcome | Eddard Stark beheaded for treason before the Sept of Baelor on the order of Joffrey I | Eddard Stark decapitado por traición ante el Septo de Baelor por orden de Joffrey I |
| On screen | Game of Thrones · T1E9 | — |
By work
| Work | Format | Where it is told |
|---|---|---|
| Game of Thrones | Show | Arrest of Eddard, Death |
The chronology of events
- Ashford Tourney
- Trial of Seven at Ashford
- Great Spring Sickness
- Coronation of Aerys I
- Tragedy at Summerhall
- Tourney at Harrenhal
- Robert's Rebellion
- Execution of Rickard and Brandon Stark
- Battle of Gulltown (Robert's Rebellion)
- Battle of Summerhall
- Battle of Ashford
- Siege of Storm's End
- Battle of the Bells
- Battle of the Trident
- Battle of the Mander
- Sack of King's Landing
- Coronation of Robert I
- Confrontation at the Tower of Joy
- Assault on Dragonstone
- Sack of Lannisport
- Siege of Pyke
- Battle of Seagard
- Battle of Fair Isle
- War of the Five Kings
- Hand's Tourney
- Battle of the Golden Tooth
- Battle at the Mummer's Ford
- Battle of Riverrun
- Death of Robert I
- Coronation of Joffrey I
- Execution of Eddard Stark
- Wedding of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo
- Death of Viserys Targaryen
- Death of Khal Drogo and birth of the dragons
- Battle of the Green Fork
- Battle of the Whispering Wood
- Battle of the Camps
- Robb Stark proclaimed King in the North
- Battle of Oxcross
- Siege of Storm's End (299)
- Capture of Winterfell
- Sack of Winterfell
- Battle of the Blackwater
- Battle of the Fist of the First Men
- Red Wedding
- House of the Undying
- Sack of Astapor
- Battle of Yunkai
- Capture of Meereen
- Great Ranging
- Death of Qhorin Halfhand
- Mutiny at Craster's Keep
- Purple Wedding
- Trial by combat of Tyrion Lannister
- Battle of Castle Black
- Death of Tywin Lannister
- Siege of Moat Cailin
- Yunkish siege of Meereen
- Siege of Riverrun
- Siege of Astapor
- Blockade of the Skahazadhan
- and 107 more in the index