Catelyn Stark

Catelyn Stark, née Tully (originally Catelyn Stark) is the daughter of Hoster Tully, Lord Paramount of the Trident, and the sister of Lysa and Edmure Tully. She is the wife of Eddard Stark and the mother of his five children.

Biography
Before the events of the series
Catelyn was born into House Tully and is the eldest child of Lord Hoster and Lady Mynise Tully. She has a younger brother, Edmure, and a younger sister, Lysa. Petyr Baelish was given to the Tullys to raise, and Catelyn grew up with him.

Catelyn was betrothed to Brandon Stark of Winterfell, but he was brutally executed along with his father, Lord Rickard Stark, by the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen after Prince Rhaegar allegedly kidnapped Brandon's sister Lyanna. Catelyn instead married Brandon's younger brother Eddard. Although they barely knew each other when they married, they had a strong and loving marriage.

Eddard and Catelyn have five children together: Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon. Eddard's bastard son Jon Snow also lives in Winterfell along with her trueborn children. Catelyn resents this, but it is the only source of friction between her and her husband.

Catelyn has some political influence. Her father's former ward and childhood friend Petyr Baelish, known as "Littlefinger", is the Master of Coin and one of the king's closest advisers in King's Landing.

Catelyn had not been to the capital for nine years before her husband went there to become the new Hand of the King.

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