Robert Baratheon: He could have lingered on the edge of the battle with the smart boys, and today his wife would be making him miserable, his sons would be ingrates, and he'd be waking three times in the night to piss into a bowl. Robert doesn't enjoy ruling as a King: Robert Baratheon: The gods be damned. It was a hollow victory they gave me. Joffrey and his parents travel to Winterfell when Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, dies. While in Winterfell, King Robert Baratheon asks Eddard Stark to become the Hand of the King, and when Ned agrees, the King suggests that Joffrey wed Sansa Stark, Ned’s eldest daughter. When Sansa meets Joffrey, she falls in love with him. We first met Gendry when Ned Stark was in King's Landing, serving as Hand of the King under Robert Baratheon and slowly uncovering the truth about the death of his predecessor, Jon Arryn. However, the rebellion led by Robert I Baratheon was the wider conflict around this plot reveal that served as Game of Thrones' catalyst. Though King Aerys II was a vile ruler and deserved his The Wolf and the LionMhaegen to Eddard Stark about how Barra resembles her father, Robert Baratheon. Barra was the bastard daughter of King Robert I Baratheon and Mhaegen. Barra is an infant, the bastard daughter of King Robert Baratheon and Mhaegen, a prostitute working for Petyr Baelish in King's Landing. Barra lives with Mhaegen in one of his brothels. Her name may be a reference to her The Mad King Aerys Targaryen called for Jon Arryn to hand over Robert and Ned. Jon Arryn refused and rose up in rebellion in support of Robert, who had the best claim to the throne, becoming King. The rebellion became known as Robert’s Rebellion. Following Robert's Rebellion, Jon Arryn was appointed as Hand of the King to King Robert. While Robert devoted his energies to whoring, drinking and hunting, Arryn was effectively left to govern the realm and apparently did so wisely. After seventeen years as Hand, Arryn died suddenly of a fever. [citation needed] Game of Thrones: Season 1 [] The Robert Baratheon curse theory comes from his first meeting with the Starks in the Game of Thrones pilot. It features a key scene in which all the members of House Stark line up to greet the King's arrival at Winterfell, and secretly foreshadows multiple deaths. The first person Robert greets is his old friend Ned, embracing him in a big hug GlBRewT.