Game Of Thrones
Anyone who has watched all eight season ofGame of Throneswill bed that houses in Westeros can uprise and devolve seemingly overnight , even the Great Houses of Westeros . The Great Houses are the houses that lord over their full kingdom , like the Starks do with the North , the Arryns do with the Vale , or the Lannisters do with the Westerlands . They are the most potent folk in all Seven Kingdoms , and before the start of the Targaryen dynasties , most of these families were the Billie Jean King of their own kingdoms as well .
It ’s arduous to measure the monetary worth of anything in a phantasy universe , but there are a few things in any world , whether they ’re real or imagined , that are pretty undeniably valuable . Most of the ancient Great Houses came into their retention in different ways , and understandably some are much plentiful than others . So these are all of theGame of ThronesGreat Houses , grade by economic note value .
Updated on December 21st , 2021 by Hilary Elizabeth : Although many of the Great Houses of Westeros were firmly constitute throughout the course of Game of Thrones , some house managed to become the ruler of their realm during the serial publication , even if they did n’t agree on to them for good .
House Blackwater
Bronn of the Blackwater somehow managed to swindle his style from being an intermediate but gifted sellsword to the genuine Lord of Highgarden , which is an extraordinary financial leap . However , as a individual serviceman who is very newly made , it ’s safe to say that his position in Westeros is tenuous .
He may be in possession of one of the most worthful lands in all Seven Kingdoms , but with one ill-timed move , he could lose it all . And apart from the nation that he ’s been give by the crown , he really has nothing else of value to his name , mayhap mean that House Blackwater could be nothing more than a split second in the pan .
House Baelish
It ’s dumbfounding that House Baelish is n’t the poorest Great House in Westerosi history , as this lower stately firm was essentially break in until Littlefinger act his way up through the ranks .
He first made his name by contend the wealthiness of Gulltown in the Vale and becoming Master of Coin for the entire country patently provided a vast boost to the bank building explanation of House Baelish . He was grant Harrenhal and fundamentally had political control of the Vale , but he still could n’t match the affluence of most major houses in the Seven Kingdoms .
House Bolton
The Boltons were one of the oldest and most build houses in the North , and they were a legitimate menace to House Stark for many hundred . However , they were still just a vassal household to the Starks for a very long fourth dimension , meaning that they could n’t acquire the kind of riches that most long - run Great Houses could .
Becoming Wardens of the North was a self-aggrandizing rise . But plainly , they could n’t arrest on to that seat for recollective , so it almost certainly did n’t enhance their final Charles Frederick Worth very much .
House Greyjoy
House Greyjoy may be one of the Great Houses of Westeros , but the kingdom that they govern over is probably the least valuable in all Seven Kingdoms . The Iron Islands are diminished and inhospitable ( and as fans all do it , their theatre quarrel are literally " We Do Not Sow " , so no Farmer here ) , and the population of the islands is low in relation to the repose of the kingdom , but because the islands are so small it still puts a strain on their resources .
The only natural resource they really have is fish and their mine for iron and tin . Their crown gem is undoubtedly their navy , but they ’d have a hard metre doing anything completely self - sufficiently and have to trust on the other kingdoms for their own survival .
House Frey
House Frey may not have been a in particular respected household , but they for sure were a robust one . The strategic location of their familial keister allow them to make themselves outrageously wealthy , enabling them to compete with much older and more established houses .
The holdings of House Frey also develop considerably when Walder Frey became the paterfamilias , as his brutal but savvy mind allow him to make with child gains for his family line long before arrogate the Tullys at the Red Wedding .
House Stark
The High Lords of the North may be one of the oldest and most well - respected houses in Westeros , but the very nature of the North basically prevents them from build any pregnant wealth on the level of most other Great Houses .
They ’re lucky to be the wardens of the gravid kingdom in Westeros , but the land is barren enough and the universe is sparse enough that their prospects as sodbuster are bleak , and taking vantage of any natural imagination is unmanageable . The most valuable trading resourcefulness the North has is its timber , and the North is also home to a few silver mine , but that is n’t nearly enough to make any Great House rich .
House Arryn
House Arryn is the Great House that rules over the Vale Of Arryn , and although its huge mountain ranges keep apart it from the residuum of Westeros , the valleys of the Vale are home to cereal farm that get a significant amount of pale yellow , barleycorn , and corn .
distinctly , the Vale ca n’t compete with the farming layer of the Reach , both because of their sizing and because of how much of their land is actually worthy for farming . But their green goods is still renowned throughout the Seven Kingdoms , and they mine quite a peck of marble from their good deal . And one vast advantage they have over most other kingdoms is that the mountains that ring them protect their resourcefulness from any unwelcome invaders .
House Martell
The desert ground of Dorne does n’t seem like a literal or metaphoric gilt mine for any houses that decide to call it their nursing home , but House Martell has wield to advance their wealth quite a bit no matter . The coast of Dorne is warm and hospitable year - pear-shaped , so the Dornish have made hunky-dory wines along with summertime fruit their business and the resource they offer are unique among the Seven Kingdoms .
House Martell also has a significant amount of inherited wealth going back to the stop when Mors Martell get married the Rhoynish Queen Nymeria , and the location of their seat in Sunspear offers them a very easy boulevard to deal with Essos .
House Baratheon
House Baratheon has obviously managed to advance itself further than most other Great Houses of Westeros , but without Robert Baratheon ’s ascending to the throne , the Lords of the Stormlands undoubtedly would not have been almost as wealthy .
The Stormlands are a fertile land , but the titular storm make it difficult to faithfully work much besides lumber . Ormund Baratheon ’s marriage ceremony to Rhaelle Targaryen sure bolstered House Baratheon ’s position , but it was when Robert became king and married Cersei Lannister that the riches of House Baratheon really explode . House Baratheon also expanded to three distinct house , House Baratheon of Dragonstone ( led by Stannis ) , House Baratheon of King ’s landing place ( lead by Robert ) , and the buns at Storm ’s terminal was held by Renly .
House Tully
It ’s toilsome to order born resources as one being more important than another , but it seems secure to say that there will never be any more consistently worthful economic resource than solid food . And what House Tully has over all of the premature houses is that their country and climate are stable enough for the realm to produce a lot of food dependably .
The economy of the Riverlands focuses mostly on fishing , cattle , and crops , and their rivers dish up a two-fold aim of keeping their land perpetually fertile as well as put up fast and easy transportation for their good . And with Riverrun place at the fork of two major rivers , House Tully is ground to take vantage of all the Riverlands has to put up .
