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| “ | Jon Roxton was as feared for his black temper as for his black blade, the Valyrian steel sword called Orphan-Maker. | „ |
| ~ Archmaester Gyldayn describing Jon Roxton. |
| “ | Jon Roxton: Lord Hammer, my condolences. Hugh Hammer: For what? |
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| ~ Jon Roxton to Hugh Hammer before killing him, and his last words. |
Ser Jon Roxton, also known as Bold Jon Roxton, is a supporting character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. He was a knight and the head of House Roxton during the Dance of the Dragons, a bloody civil war fought between the Blacks and the Greens for control of the Iron Throne. During the war, Jon fought on behalf of King Aegon II Targaryen. He is well-remembered for being a member of The Caltrops and for killing the Dragonseed Hugh Hammer at the cost of his own life.
In the upcoming third season of the television series House of the Dragon, he will be portrayed by Joplin Sibtain.
Personality[]
Jon Roxton, while bold, is known and feared for his black temper. However, he is also known to be intelligent and cunning.
Biography[]
During the Dance of the Dragons, Ser Jon Roxton fought on the side of the Greens, as he had pledged himself and his house to King Aegon II Targaryen, supporting their cause against Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her political faction, the Blacks. This is due to the late King Viserys I Targaryen, the father and predecessor of Aegon II, naming Rhaenyra as his heir, which the Greens opposed and installed Aegon on the Iron Throne, due to strongly following ancient Andal customs that a son comes first ahead of a daughter in the line of succession. In addition, this also goes with the belief that Rhaenyra's own eldest sons, Princes Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey Velaryon are bastards sired by their mother's rumored lover Ser Harwin Strong, and are therefore illegitimate bastards who have no right of succession, which is echoed amongst the Greens.
During the Battle of the Honeywine, Jon Roxton used his family's ancestral Valyrian sword Oprhan-Maker to mortally wound Lord Owen Costayne, the head of House Costayne, who support Rhaenyra and the Blacks. Owen would die a slowly death from his wound. In the aftermath of the battle, which was a victory for the Greens, due to the timely intervention of Prince Daeron Targaryen and his dragon Tessarion, Ser Jon grants knighthood to Titus Peake, the son and heir of Lord Unwin Peake, for his valor in the battle, but the newly-knighted Titus died six days later after getting into a skirmish with a band of Broken Men he had stumbled upon while scouting.
Much later at the First Battle of Tumbleton, after Lord Ormund Hightower, the head of House Hightower and leader of the Hightower forces, was killed in battle, Jon is amongst the many candidates who desired to succeed him as leader of the host but it was given over to Ser Hobert Hightower. Following the battle, which then turned into a brutal and appalling sack of Tumbleton, Ser Jon became enamored with Lady Sharis Footley, the Lady of Tumbleton, and claimed her as "prize of war". When her lord husband objected it, Jon murders him by cutting him in two with Orphan-Maker, devastating Sharis, and he proceeded to tear off her gown as she grieved. Jon would then reside in Lord Footley's bedchamber.
Later, upon hearing of the recent unrest in King's Landing, as the capital had fallen into chaos, due to a series of violent riots that had occurred following the death of Queen Helaena Targaryen, Jon and many nights and young lords of the Reach were anxious to immediately advance on King's Landing, as a result of the violence, and they choose to remain in Tumbleton, as Unwin Peake prefer to wait until they could join forces with House Baratheon.
Due to news of Prince Aemond Targaryen's death at the God's Eye and the belief that King Aegon II is dead, following his disappearance from King's Landing, the Greens were left leaderless so Lord Peake wanted to crown Prince Daeron Targaryen as a king, as Daeron the Daring is next in the line of succession, but Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White, who had betrayed Queen Rhaenyra, refused to accept Daeron as their king and Hugh declares his desire to be king. When Jon Roxton demanded him on what is his right to make his claim for the Iron Throne, Hugh arrogantly replied that its because he has a dragon of his own (which is Vermithor) like Aegon the Conqueror. This offended the knights and lords of the Reach (with Jon Roxton amongst them) and Prince Daeron proceeded to throw a cup of wine in Hugh's face. The next day, they were outraged when they saw Hugh wearing his own crown, which Ser Roger Corne knocks off the Dragonseed's head, leading him to be restrained and have a horseshoe nailed to his own head.
After a skirmish between Roger Corne's friends and Hugh's own men, Jon Roxton became a member of the Caltrops, a group of conspirators formed by Lord Unwin Peake and Ser Hobert Hightower, as they conspire to launch a coup against the Two Betrayers and claim their respective dragons. Jon boldly proposed that they immediately kill off Hugh and Ulf and then let the bravest of them claim the dragons for themselves, which the Caltrops agreed on and they got Prince Daeron to give them his consent. Two days later, however, their plan was thwarted when the blacks, led by Ser Addam Velaryon, launched an attack on Tumbleton, taking the Greens by surprise.
It was said that Ser Jon Roxton, after killing Hugh Hammer, slipped on the Dragonseed's entrails prior to being killed by Lord Hammer's men.
During the Second battle of Tumbleton, Jon spied on Hugh Hammer as the Dragonseed called for his armor, war hammer, and a horse he could ride to Vermithor. Taking the opportunity to kill him, he offered him his condolences and when Hugh demanded him of it, Jon only replied that "he died in battle". Unsheathing Orphan-Maker, he kills Hugh with it by opening him up from his groin to his throat. Soon after, a dozen men loyal to Hugh arrived and killed Jon in retaliation but not before he slew three men. It was said that Jon died when he slipped on a coil of Hugh's entrails, though it is believed to be too ironic to be true.
