Search results
- In A Game of Thrones, Tywin Lannister sends him to raid the Riverlands in retaliation for Catelyn Stark's abduction of Tyrion. Beric Dondarrion is sent to arrest Gregor, but Gregor ambushes and kills him. He and his men continue raiding the Riverlands throughout A Clash of Kings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Clegane
People also ask
What does Tywin think about Gregor Clegane?
How useful is Gregor Clegane?
Why is Eddard taking away Clegane keep from Gregor?
What happened to Gregor Clegane?
Who is Tywin in game of Thrones?
Why did Eddard Stark kill Clegane?
Tywin asks if they are so well manned that they can afford to discard able and skilled prisoners. He asks a prisoner if he has a trade and learns that he is a smith. Tywin orders the prisoners put to work, sparing the young man.
The only thing Tywin would need to do to kill him is just order a hit and send a company of knights and archers to deal with him. Why exactly would Clegane decide to lose his wealth and lands, and be an outlaw hobo when he could just as easily obey Tywin and keep his life and privileges?
Gregor joins with Tywin's host and commands the vanguard and the left flank during the battle on the Green Fork against the northern host, leading by intimidation. Tywin places Tyrion under Gregor's command during the battle. In the first charge, Gregor's stallion is killed by Karstark spearmen, but the Mountain is unhurt and goes on fighting.
After Catelyn Stark takes prisoner Tyrion Lannister at the crossroads inn, Tyrion's father, Lord Tywin Lannister, retaliates by sending Ser Gregor Clegane to raid the riverlands. Without displaying their banners, the Mountain's men attack the Mummer's Ford, Sherrer, and Wendish Town.
While Tywin offers generous terms to defeated rebel lords, he orders Gregor Clegane to extinguish Vargo and the Brave Companions at Harrenhal. Prince Oberyn Martell seeks justice for the death of his sister, Elia Martell , and her children during the Sack of King's Landing , so Tywin claims that the late Ser Amory Lorch was solely to blame.
But Killing Clegane just because a traitor (Eddard Stark) had commanded to, doesn't serve Tywin at all and leaves him bereft of his most useful monster who had served very well for Lannister Cause. Eddard condemned Gregor to death for crime of massacring Riverlanders in raids.
Ser Gregor Clegane is the head of House Clegane, a landed knight and bannerman to Lord Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock. He is the elder brother of Sandor Clegane, Joffrey Baratheon’s hound. Because of his ferociousness and gigantism, he got feared throughout Westeros and earned the nickname, The Mountain That Rides, or The Mountain for short.
