Jared Frey

Ser Jared Frey is the fourth son of Walder Frey and the first from his second wife Cyrenna Swann. He is married to his cousin Alys Frey and has a son, Ser Tytos Frey, and a daughter, Kyra Frey. Through them he has four grandchildren. Jared is tall, stooped and balding.

The Freys join Robb Stark early in the War of the Five Kings, after forcing him to agree to marry a daughter or grandaughter of Walder Frey. Jared is among the Freys captured at the Battle of the Green Fork and is ransomed. Later he is among the Frey force at Harrenhal with Roose Bolton. After Stannis Baratheon is defeated at the Blackwater by Tywin Lannister and Mace Tyrell, the Freys are worried that they will be unable to defeat the Lannister-Tyrell alliance, and one of Jared's half-brothers, Hosteen Frey, says Robb has lost the war and must make peace. Later news arrives at Harrenhal that Robb has broken the marriage pact, having taken Jeyne Westerling's virginity and married her to preserve her honour.

The Freys and Boltons secretly make an alliance with Tywin Lannister. They tell Robb they will join his cause again if his uncle Edmure Tully, Lord of Riverrun and Lord Paramount of the Trident, marries Roslin Frey, one of Jared's half-sisters. However the wedding is a trap. At the Red Wedding Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, and most of his army are slaughtered. Jared's son Tytos Frey is killed by Sandor Clegane and his son-in-law Ser Garse Goodbrook also dies.

One of the victims of the Red Wedding is Ser Wendel Manderly, second son of Lord Wyman Manderly of White Harbor, the only city in the North. Jared, one of his half-brothers Symond Frey, and a half-nephew Rhaegar Frey, bring Wendel's bones to White Harbor. They try to ensure the Manderlys swear fealty to the Iron Throne, offering the widowed Manderly a Frey bride, and the marriages of his grandaughters Wynafryd and Wylla Mandery to Rhaegar Frey and another of Walder Frey's grandsons Little Walder Frey. Wyman's only surviving son Wylis is a captive of the Lannisters at Harrenhal.

When Davos Seaworth arrives in White Harbor to try and convince Lord Manderly to support Stannis, he finds the three Freys present. Jared claims during the Red Wedding Robb and the Northmen turned into wolves, Robb killing his half-nephew Aegon "Jinglebell" Frey and that Wendel was killed protecting Walder Frey. Davos calls Jared a liar, at which Jared draws his sword and threatens to fight Davos, but Wyman forbids blood being shed in the Merman's court. Rhaegar claims that the war is over, Tommen Baratheon is the true King, and they must obey him, saying Robb Stark was a vile dog who died as he deserved, which Manderly agrees with. He then orders his cousin, Ser Marlon Manderly, to execute Davos.

However a common criminal he reassembles Davos is executed instead, and his head and hands, with the fingers shortened, are put on the gate.