When the Kings of the Iron Islands from House Hoare invaded the riverlands three centuries later, Lady Agnes Blackwood led the rivermen's resistance. After the river lords rejected the possibility of being ruled by Roderick's daughter, Shiera Blackwood, Arlan added the riverlands to the realm of the Storm Kings. Roderick was killed in the Battle of Six Kings, ending Arlan's attempt to restore the riverlands to the Blackwoods. With the support of Arlan III Durrandon, a Storm King from Storm's End, Lord Roderick Blackwood rebelled against Humfrey I Teague, King of the Rivers and the Hills. There were Blackwoods among the many petty kings who disputed the riverlands in the tumultuous century after King Bernarr II Justman's death. īenedict Rivers was a bastard born from both houses who eventually became King Benedict I Justman, with House Justman ruling the riverlands for about three centuries. There have been numerous peaces between the Blackwoods and Brackens, many sealed by marriage, but the feud always restarts. The Teats, Battle Valley, and the village of Blackbuckle are part of the disputed land. The Blackwoods accuse the Brackens of having poisoned the weirwood of Raventree Hall. In contrast, the Blackwoods kept the religion of the old gods, being one of the few houses south of the Neck to do so. The feud was aided by House Bracken's conversion to the Faith of the Seven after the Andal invasion. The Blackwoods and Brackens allied together against the coming of the Andals to the riverlands, but they were defeated in the Battle of the Bitter River. The Blackwoods believe these events occurred five hundred years before the arrival of the Andals, but the True History states it was one thousand years before the Andals. The Brackens, in contrast, claim the Blackwoods were vassals who betrayed and usurped Bracken kings. According to the Blackwoods, the Brackens were petty lords and horse breeders who hired swords to usurp the Blackwood kings. The Blackwoods have an old and bitter feud against their neighbors in the riverlands, the Brackens of the Stone Hedge, coming from the Age of Heroes when both houses ruled as kings. īlackwood river kings claimed the mouth of the Blackwater Rush. Family traditions state they ruled most of the wolfswood in the north before being driven south by the Kings of Winter from House Stark, which Maester Barneby's runic translations support. The Blackwoods are an ancient house descended of the First Men. The godswood of Raventree Hall, with its enormous dead weirwood and hundreds of ravens - by Elena María Vacas
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