That's right, isn't it?ĭaenerys: You're Robert Baratheon's son. And in the show bastards appear to have less rights of succession compared to the books, see Ramsay Snow for example.ĭaenerys: Gendry. However, Gendry is also an unacknowledged bastard of Robert's so wouldn't really have been in the line of succession and thinks so himself. Westeros, So Spake Martin, The Hornwood inheritance and the Whents ![]() but as often as not, the precedents conflicted as much as the claims. A case might set a precedent for later cases. Things were often decided on a case by case basis. There are no clear cut answers, either in Westeros or in real medieval history. Is precedence or proximity the more important principle? Do bastards have any rights? What about bastards who have been legitimized, do they go in at the end after the trueborn kids, or according to birth order? What about widows? And what about the will of the deceased? Can a lord disinherit one son, and name a younger son as heir? Or even a bastard? ![]() What if there are no childen, only grandchildren and great grandchildren. So that leaves us with whether or not Bastards have rights, well that isn't a clear cut case as GRRM has said before. Of all the known members of House Baratheon in the show they are all dead.
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