- Barbrey Dustin: "Lord Wyman is not the only one who lost kin at your Red Wedding, Frey. Do you imagine Whoresbane loves you any better? If you did not hold the Greatjon, he would pull out your entrails and make you eat them, as Lady Hornwood ate her fingers. Flints, Cerwyns, Tallharts, Slates ... they all had men with the Young Wolf."
- Roger Ryswell: "House Ryswell too."
- Barbrey Dustin: "Even Dustins out of Barrowton. The North remembers, Frey."
- — Barbrey and Roger Ryswell to Aenys Frey[src]
Barbrey Dustin, née Ryswell, is the Lady of Barrowton as the widow of Lord Willam Dustin. She was born into House Ryswell as the younger daughter of Lord Rodrik Ryswell.[1]
History[]
Barbrey is the surviving daughter of Rodrik Ryswell, Lord of the Rills, and is the sister of Roger, Rickard, and Roose. Their sister was Bethany, the late second wife of Roose Bolton, Lord of the Dreadfort.[3]
Brandon Stark, the eldest son of Lord Rickard Stark, often rode the Rills while being fostered at Barrowton with old Lord Dustin. Infatuated with the heir of Winterfell, young Barbrey had an affair with Brandon, who took her maidenhead. Lord Rodrik hoped to wed his daughter to a Stark, but Lord Rickard betrothed his heir to Catelyn Tully of Riverrun. Barbrey claims Brandon did not want to wed Catelyn[4] and that the betrothal was the idea of Walys, Rickard's maester at Winterfell.[5] Rodrik then hoped to wed Barbrey to Brandon's younger brother, Eddard Stark, but that was not to be. Barbrey instead wed Willam Dustin, the young Lord of Barrowton.[4]
The abduction of Lyanna Stark by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen led to the executions of Brandon and Lord Rickard Stark by King Aerys II Targaryen in King's Landing. Now Lord of Winterfell, Eddard returned to the north to call his banners for Robert's Rebellion. Not yet half a year into marriage, Willam rode off to war against Barbrey's objections. Barbrey gifted him with a fine red steed, the pride of her father's herd, and Willam swore he would return to her mounted on the horse.[4]
Willam attended the wedding of Eddard and Catelyn at Riverrun during the war,[6] and he accompanied Lord Stark south after the siege of Storm's End. Lord Dustin was slain in the combat at the tower of joy,[7] however, and Ned built cairns for the fallen.[8] After the war ended, Lord Stark returned Willam's steed to Barbrey. She bears a grudge against Eddard, who brought the bones of his sister, Lyanna, to Winterfell for burial in its crypt, but not the bones of her husband, Lord Dustin, to Barrowton.[4]
In accordance with the Widow's Law, Barbrey remained at Barrowton after her husband's passing, she even continued to rule it in her own name. She was fond of her sister Bethany's son, Domeric Bolton, who served at Barrowton for four years as her page.[9][3] Since Domeric's death in 297 AC, Barbrey has nursed suspicions about Ramsay Snow's involvement.[3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Barbrey Dustin.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Dance with Dragons, Reek III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A Dance with Dragons, The Turncloak.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Willam Dustin.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Eddard X.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Domeric Bolton.