We’ll talk more about that when I cover the next guy.
Lancel took direct action to harm the king by getting him dangerously drunk.
Should I consider Cersei a kingslayer too? Err… I don’t know if I want to go that far. Okay, it was technically the boar that killed King Robert in the end, but certainly the king’s squire Lancel was complicit by keeping Robert well supplied with strongwine when probably everyone else on the hunt was drinking Coors Light.Ĭurrently, Lancel seems to have gotten a pass on the kingslaying charge by the High Sparrow, but part of that stems from him ratting out Cersei’s extramarital situations and her scheming to have Robert killed during that hunt. Your grace, shall I send your regrets to the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting? I know how that makes you laugh. Establishing that kings were to be considered inviolate might turn out to be an insurance policy for themselves.)Ī large number of kings die during the course of Game of Thrones, and it’s interesting (at least to me) to examine the wheres and whys of the circumstances of their deaths. (I assume a king once set this as a precedent. In general, kings were treated with special status their lives were not to be so easily taken, and usually not without the approval of a peer. The seriousness of killing a king varies from situation to situation, but historically (in our world) kingslaying was a big deal. It’s unusual to have so many kings running around (and to tell the truth, since Mance Rayder was active north of the Wall during that time, there were more than five kings…) but to balance that out, the show has also had several kingslayers, individuals who have taken the life of a king. We last saw you in Season Three or something, so I assume you’ve survived the War of the Five Kings by hiding. Oh, sorry, I totally forgot about you, Balon. What? Was I killed off-screen, and no one told me? WHAT IS DEAD CAN NEVER DIE!
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