The Starks were stripped of their regnal titles, but were granted the titles of Lords Paramount of the North and Wardens of the North in their stead. Upon learning of his victories in the south, King Torrhen Stark peacefully bent the knee to Aegon Targaryen.

It is one of the oldest known houses in Westerosi nobility by far, tracing it's origin back over eight millennia to Bran the Builder, who lived during the legendary Age of Heroes.įollowing the defeat and submission of the Red Kings of House Bolton, the Starks ruled as the undisputed Kings of the North for thousands of years, lasting all the way up until Aegon's Conquest. Ice (formerly, destroyed by Tywin Lannister) House Stark of Winterfell is a Great House of Westeros that rules the vast region of the North from their seat of Winterfell.