The Florents of Brightwater Keep are Tyrell bannermen, despite a superior claim to Highgarden by virtue of a blood tie to House Gardener, the old Kings of the Reach. At the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings, Lord Alester Florent followed the Tyrells in declaring for King Renly, but his brother Ser Axell chose King Stannis, whom he had served for years as castellan of Dragonstone. Their niece Selyse was and is King Stannis’s queen. When Renly died at Storm’s End, the Florents went over to Stannis with all their strength, the first of Renly’s bannermen to do so. The sigil of House Florent shows a fox head in a circle of flowers.
ALESTER FLORENT, Lord of Brightwater,
—his wife, LADY MELARA, of House Crane,
—their children:
—ALEKYNE, heir to Brightwater,
—MELESSA, wed to Lord Randyll Tarly,
—RHEA, wed to Lord Leyton Hightower,
—his siblings:
—SER AXELL, castellan of Dragonstone,
—[SER RYAM], died in a fall from a horse,
—Ser Ryam’s daughter, QUEEN SELYSE, wed to King Stannis Baratheon,
—Ser Ryam’s son, [SER IMRY], commanding Stannis Baratheon’s fleet on the Blackwater, lost with the Fury,
—Ser Ryam’s second son, SER ERREN, held captive at Highgarden,
—SER COLIN,
—Ser Colin’s daughter, DELENA, wed to SER HOSMAN NORCROSS,
—Delena’s son, EDRIC STORM, a bastard of King Robert I Baratheon, twelve years of age,
—Delena’s son, ALESTER NORCROSS, eight,
—Delena’s son, RENLY NORCROSS, a boy of two,
—Ser Colin’s son, MAESTER OMER, in service at Old Oak,
—Ser Colin’s son, MERRELL, a squire on the Arbor,
—his sister, RYLENE, wed to Ser Rycherd Crane.