House Hollard

During the Age of Heroes, when the Darklyns still ruled as petty kings over Duskendale, House Hollard tied its fortunes to that crown: several of its daughters married those kings, long before the Targaryens unified the realm.

The house's arms were barred gules and carnation beneath a blue chief bearing three golden crowns, and its members remained vassals of the Darklyns within the Crownlands.

The house's fortunes turned with the Defiance of Duskendale, the Darklyn revolt against King Aerys II Targaryen: the crackdown that followed killed almost every member of House Hollard, put to death by royal order.

Only one of them survived, the young Dontos Hollard, because Ser Barristan Selmy asked the king for mercy on his behalf, arguing that neither the boy nor his father — who had died before the offense took place — had taken any part in it.