House Locke of Oldcastle

Casa Locke de Castillo Viejo

House Locke of Oldcastle is a vassal house of the North, seated at Oldcastle and currently answerable to House Bolton. Its arms, two bronze keys crossed on a purple field, are the only visible trace of a time when its lords bowed to no one: before the Starks, the Lockes were kings.

Chapter 1

Kings before they were bannermen

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Long before any other name held sway over them, the Lockes wore their own crown in the North, until Stark strength reduced them to bannermen. They kept their house and their seat at Oldcastle, and for two centuries also held the coastal stronghold known as the Wolf's Den.

Chapter 2

Taken at the Green Fork

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Ser Donnel Locke fought at the Battle of the Green Fork, and the evidence suggests he ended up a captive, though the sources never fully confirm it.

Chapter 3

Hostages of someone else's war

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In this chapterAsha Greyjoy

Another Locke, Ser Mallador, wore the black: he was among the two hundred brothers who marched out of Castle Black on the Great Ranging beyond the Wall. Meanwhile Ser Donnel won his freedom, probably when Harrenhal fell, after months as a prisoner.

The war also reached the women and children of the name: when the ironborn took Deepwood Motte, Lady Sybelle Locke and her children were captured by Asha Greyjoy.

Chapter 4

The bloodied rearguard

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In this chapterGregor Clegane

The house paid a heavy price at the Ruby Ford: most of its men were still waiting their turn to cross, held in the rearguard on the southern bank, when Gregor Clegane's Lannister force fell on the stragglers.

Farther north, Ser Mallador did not survive the ranging beyond the Wall: he died sometime between the Battle of the Fist of the First Men and the retreat toward Craster's Keep.

Chapter 5

The wedding that claimed another Locke

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In this chapterEdmure Tully

Ser Donnel traveled to the Twins for Ser Edmure Tully's wedding, meant to seal a peace after the war. There, when the feast turned to slaughter, he met his death.

Chapter 6

Loyalty under suspicion

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At White Harbor, when Davos Seaworth came before Lord Wyman Manderly to talk of the war, among those present was a man wearing the Locke emblem.

Lord Ondrew Locke traveled to Winterfell for the wedding of Ramsay Bolton to the girl everyone called Arya Stark, and once the ceremony ended he stayed at the castle with his men. Formally they answered to Lord Roose Bolton, but Theon Greyjoy, watching them closely, doubted their loyalty was as solid as it appeared.

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Casa Locke · 2026-07-30

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Where each datum comes from
English name
anapioficeandfire.com/api/houses
Spanish name
hieloyfuego.fandom.com — “Casa Locke” (the wiki declares its English name in {{Interlinks}} and only one house bears that surname)
Arms (English)
anapioficeandfire.com/api/houses. Note: the API’s heraldry comes from The Citadel (westeros.org), which docs/canon.md §2 classes as SEMI-CANON
Arms (Spanish)
hieloyfuego.fandom.com — “Casa Locke”
Region
anapioficeandfire.com/api/houses (Spanish from pipeline/casas/regiones.json)
Seat
«Oldcastle» → data/lugares.json by name + type + region
Allegiance
anapioficeandfire.com/api/houses (overlord field)
Current lord
anapioficeandfire.com/api/houses — the fifth book’s state (the API froze in 2015), NOT the show’s
Canon
no members on screen at gameofthrones.fandom.com: books only

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