The Florents of Brightwater Keep are bannermen of Highgarden. At the outset of the War of the Five Kings, Lord Alester Florent followed his liege lord in declaring for King Renly while his brother Ser Axell chose Stannis, husband to his niece Selyse. After Renly’s death, Lord Alester went over to Stannis as well, with all the strength of Brightwater. Stannis made Lord Alester his Hand, and gave command of his fleet to Ser Imry Florent, his wife’s brother. The fleet and Ser Imry both were lost in the Battle of Blackwater, and Lord Alester’s efforts to negotiate a peace after the defeat were regarded by King Stannis as treason. He was given to the red priestess Melisandre, who burned him as a sacrifice to R’hllor.
The Iron Throne has also named the Florents traitors for their support of Stannis and his rebellion. They were attainted, and Brightwater Keep and its lands were awarded to Ser Garlan Tyrell.
The sigil of House Florent shows a fox head in a circle of flowers.
[ALESTER FLORENT], Lord of Brightwater, burned as a traitor,
—his wife, LADY MELARA, of House Crane,
—their children:
—LEKYNE, attainted Lord of Brightwater, fled to Oldtown to seek refuge at the Hightower,
—LADY MELESSA, wed to Lord Randyll Tarly,
—LADY RHEA, wed to Lord Leyton Hightower,
—his siblings:
—SER AXELL, a queen’s man, in service to his niece Queen Selyse at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea,
—[SER RYAM], died in a fall from a horse,
—SELYSE, his daughter, wife and queen to King Stannis I Baratheon,
—SHIREEN BARATHEON, her only child,
—[SER IMRY], his eldest son, killed in the Battle of the Blackwater,
—SER ERREN, his second son, a captive at Highgarden,
—SER COLIN, castellan at Brightwater Keep,
—DELENA, his daughter, m. SER HOSMAN NORCROSS,
—her natural son, EDRIC STORM, fathered by King Robert I Baratheon,
—ALESTER NORCROSS, her eldest trueborn son, a boy of nine,
—RENLY NORCROSS, her second trueborn son, a boy of three,
—MAESTER OMER, Ser Colin’s eldest son, in service at Old Oak,
—MERRELL, Ser Colin’s youngest son, a squire on the Arbor,
—RYLENE, Lord Alester’s sister, m. Ser Rycherd Crane.