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Lady Corbray is a merchant's daughter and the second wife of Lyonel Corbray, the Lord of Heart's Home and the head of House Corbray.

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How do dowries work when marriages take place within a family? Like when Joanna married Tywin, or Lyarra married Rickard? I suppose that's really an off shoot of the question, is the dowry paid for by the house or by the bride's Father, and what does that mean when cousins marry?

Dowries in Westeros appear to be paid by the head of the House. In most cases (of the comparatively few we have, at least) that would mean the father of the bride: Lyonel Corbray’s new wife came with an immense (and dynastically pleasing) dowry courtesy of her “wealthy Gulltown merchant” father, Argilac the Arrogant offered Aegon Targaryen “all the lands east of the Gods Eye from the Trident to the Blackwater Rush” as the dowry of his daughter Argella, and when Littlefinger is talking about the Harry-Sansa match he brokered, he boasts that the dower he offered for “Alayne” was even larger than the one Lord Lyonel collected. However, fathers are not always the ones responsible for the dower in Westerosi marital bargaining. “Fat Walda” Frey happily commented to Catelyn that “[m]y lord grandfather offered Roose his bride’s weight in silver as a dowry” and so she was chosen (doubtless because Papa Merrett had nothing to give himself). Jaime promises Edmure that if Roslin gives birth to a daughter, he’ll “see her well dowered”, since she would be a ward of Casterly Rock (and would in any event, at least if Aunt Genna got her way, be married to a Lannister-Frey to bolster their flimsy Riverrun inheritance). Historically, Yandel writes that Daeron II “paid the dowry that Aegon had promised to the Archon of Tyrosh, thereby seeing his half brother Daemon Blackfyre wed to Rohanne of Tyrosh as Aegon had desired”, although Daeron was only Daemon’s elder, legitimate half-brother.

But for many of the cases of cousin marriage, and certainly the two cited in the ask, I would suspect the gain would be more political than monetary. GRRM once stated that while Tywin’s marriage was in part a love match, it was also designed to consolidate the Lannister family tree and prevent struggles over Casterly Rock in the future. I suspect Rickard and Lyarra was at least partially motivated by this as well: with the descendants of Cregan the One-Day Hand fighting one another for several generations to become top dog (or, I suppose, wolf) at Winterfell, a marriage between the first cousins once removed would nicely cut down on more Stark claimants to challenge Rickard’s line’s rule in the future. I also think a similar scenario happened with the marriage of Shella and Walter Whent: although Shella was Lady of Harrenhal by right of birth, she might have been married to Walter to keep Harrenhal in the family and shore up the claims of a woman ruling in her own right. In such cases, I think the idea would be to look for the political gains of consolidating potentially competing claims, rather than increasing the family coffers. (Apart from say, someone like Alys Frey, whom I assume married Jared because of a lack of other options as a Frey even lower-ranking than Walder’s ever-increasing brood.)

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Good Queen Aly, I have a couple of questions. I'll admit I only read AFFC once and that was a VERY long time ago, but I can't remember, why did Baelish broker the marriage of Lord Corbray with a commoner? Even though she was the daughter of a rich merchant. And second, were the wives of great-grandpa Baelish and granddad Baelish of noble blood or probably daughters of merchant? What rank do you think Petyr's mother Alayne comes from? Is she even of noble blood?

The arrangement of Lord Corbray’s marriage is part of Littlefinger’s overall consolidation of power scheme in the Vale. Littlefinger hit upon the real fact that, for all their preening and pride, many of the great families of the Vale are rather cash poor, the Corbrays included. By arranging Corbray’s marriage to a Gulltown merchant’s daughter with a “staggering” dowry, Littlefinger neatly solves the Corbray financial difficulties - and, of course, when Lord Lyonel remembers that he no longer has quite the debt some of his Vale neighbors have, he’ll also remember that it was good old Littlefinger who helped him out of that rather sticky wicket. At the same time, Littlefinger ensures that, if Lyonel Corbray marries a merchant’s daughter, he does not gain any lordly allies (with substantial armies) which could encourage the Lord of Heart’s Home against the Lord Protector of the Vale. The Lord of Heart’s Home might have been a more than fair prize for a daughter of the Vale (whose family might have been staunchly anti-Littlefinger, and pulled Corbray away from Littlefinger’s influence); by binding him to a merchant family of Gulltown, where he is “well loved”, Littlefinger both isolates Corbray from the Lords Declarant and their allies and binds him to a less militarily potent, and more pro-Littlefinger, sector of the Vale.

Since Great-Grandfather Baelish was a sellsword from Braavos, come to the Vale to fight for Lord Corbray, I would find it extremely likely that his wife was a very minor commoner from somewhere around Heart’s Home. We know little about the marital prospects of landless hedge knights (I very highly doubt Baelish’s paternal grandmother was an Amerei Frey type, we would have heard of that scandal by now), but I doubt Grandfather Baelish married much better than his own father did (although perhaps his wife was slightly higher status than his own mother had been - maybe from a slightly larger town (or a town at all), maybe from a slightly more notable family from that town). I figure Alayne Baelish was probably a very minor lord or landed knight’s daughter, to match the “smallest of small lords” Papa Baelish - the scion of some vassal’s vassal’s vassal, barely surviving in some tiny corner of the Vale, seizing on Baelish’s lordly status (despite his rather recent elevation to the same) rather than - the horror - marrying a mere commoner.

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Lyonel Corbray

Joseph Fiennes - 47 years old, English.

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