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Robb Stark

Also known as: The Young Wolf · The King Who Lost the North

Titles: King in the North · Lord of Winterfell

Portrayed by: Richard Madden · Origin: The North · Seat: Winterfell · First appears: S1E1 “Winter Is Coming” · Fate: Murdered at the Red Wedding by Roose Bolton — 'The Lannisters send their regards'

“I have won every battle, but I am losing this war.”

Biography

Robb Stark was sixteen when his father's arrest made him the head of House Stark, and he answered like a story made flesh: he called the banners, marched south, and proceeded to win every single battle he ever fought. At the Whispering Wood he shattered Jaime Lannister's host and took the Kingslayer captive with a fraction of the losses; the North and the Riverlands crowned him on the spot — the first King in the North in three hundred years. Tywin Lannister, the realm's most feared commander, never beat him in the field. Not once.

He lost the war everywhere else. He sent Theon Greyjoy to treat with the Iron Islands and got Winterfell burned for it. He executed Rickard Karstark for murdering captive boys — justice that cost him half his army. And he broke his marriage pact with Walder Frey for love of Talisa, a wound to Frey pride that Tywin's quill sharpened into a massacre. At the Twins, under the protection of guest right, the Rains of Castamere began to play: Talisa was stabbed through their unborn child, Catelyn's throat was cut, and Roose Bolton drove a dagger through the Young Wolf's heart with a personal message. The Freys sewed Grey Wind's head onto his corpse and paraded it — a desecration Arya Stark would repay in full, name by name.

Attributes & statistics

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Screen time: 100 min across 21 episodes · Named on-screen kills: 8 · Lore milestones: 7 · Debut: S1E1 (2011)

Timeline

• ⭐ S1E10 — Crowned King in the North: 'The King in the North!' echoes through Riverrun.
• S2E4 — Battle of Oxcross: Grey Wind leads a rout of the Lannister camp.
• ⭐ S3E5 — Executes Karstark: Justice over politics; the Karstarks abandon him.
• ⭐ S3E9 — The Red Wedding: Murdered with his queen, mother, and army under guest right.

Key relationships

• family Eddard Stark — Went to war to free him; arrived too late
• family Jon Snow — Half-brothers in name; brothers in everything else
• enemy Tywin Lannister — Unbeaten against him in the field; destroyed by his letters
• rival Jaime Lannister — Captured him at the Whispering Wood

Trivia

• Richard Madden was told about the Red Wedding when first cast — and kept the secret for three years.
• Robb never met Tyrion, Cersei, or Joffrey on screen after Season 1's Winterfell visit.
• The Red Wedding episode caused such audience trauma that reaction videos became a genre.
• Grey Wind tore out a man's throat at the Whispering Wood — battles often credited the wolf with dozens of kills.
• In the books his queen is Jeyne Westerling, who does not attend the wedding and survives.