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Could Tansy of The Peach be Hoster's Bastard?

  • Dec 28, 2025
  • 2 min read

From Catelyn's POV at his bedside, Hoster seems to regret forcing an abortion on Lysa but also something from deeper in his past, since he seems to be addressing a woman named Tansy. Catelyn speculates Hoster fathered a bastard on a woman named Tansy. I think he did, but that it's his basard who is named Tansy as a clue he'd ordered her mother to abort her.


Chapter Notes:


146 ASOS 3 Catelyn I: By Hoster's bedside, Catelyn whispers "It is a monstrous cruel thing to lose a child." Hoster's eyes open and he says "Tansy" in a voice thick with pain. Then, "Forgive me...the blood...oh, please...Tansy..." 35


Catelyn speculates that her father had another woman in his life, perhaps when young or after her mother died. When Catelyn asks Hoster who Tansy is, he says "Dead. You'll have other...sweet babes, and trueborn sons...be a good wife and the gods will bless you...sons...trueborn sons...aaa hhh" 36 Catelyn wonders if he was talking to Tansy or Lysa or Mother. She asks Maester Vyman but he doesn't remember anyone of that name. Later, Hoster says "Tansy...blood...the blood...gods be kind..." 38 Catelyn wonders if he fathered a bastard on a woman named Tansy. She'd believe it of Edmure but not of Hoster. Could Tansy have been a pet name for Lysa? Catelyn speculates Lysa may have been pregnant "that first time" Lysa's hurriedly arranged marriage to Jon Arryn suddenly seems suspicious. Catelyn speculates that Hoster only joined Robert's Rebellion on the condition Arryn marry Lysa.


166 ASOS 23 Arya IV: At Sallydance, sitting around in the vault beneath the sept, Tom says they won't stay long at Riverrun, if they are sent to ransom Arya, because "Lord hoster was hanging outlaws before you were shaving. And that son of his...a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say. " Lem says Edmure hates Tom, not music. Tom says "Well, he has no cause. The wench was willing to make a man of him, is it my fault he drnk too much to do the deed?" Lem snorts and says "Was it you who mae a song of it, or some other bloody arse is love with his own voice?" Tom says "I only sang it once. And who's to say the song was about him ? 'Twas a song about fish


173 ASOS 30 Arya V: At the brothel called the Peach in Stoney Sept Arya meet a buxom red-haired innkeep named Tansy. She chatizes Tom for saying a certain young man isn't his son. L:ater, she gossips to Harwin that Lady Catelyn spent the night in Jaiome's cell with another woman before releasing him in the morning "for love." 402 The fountain in the marketplace of Stoney Spet is a leaping trout, it's in the riverlands owing allegiance to Riverrun and Hoster Tully was among Robert Baratheon's rescuers at The battle of the Bells. So, there's a local Tansy. Robert sired Bella after that battle, at the Peach. It's possible Hoster either met Tansy then or already knew her.


179 ASOS 36 Catelyn IV: "Lord Hoster's last word had been 'Tansy' but Catelyn couldn't bring herself to tell (Edmure) that." 477




 
 

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