Game Of Thrones: Power Ranking Every Major House
9. House Tyrell
Status: Nearly Extinct
Remaining Family Members: Olenna
Family Members Lost: Mace, Loras, Margery
The Tyrells have always been creatures of opportunity. When they saw Renly Baratheon make a claim for the crown, they were very quick to give him their daughter and their army. Seconds after Renly is murdered by an evil shadow, Margery and Loras quickly abandon ship and return to Highgarden.
Again taking advantage of a power vacuum, the Tyrells team up with the Lannisters just in time to finish off Stannis’ forces in the Battle of Blackwater Bay. By offering their daughter for another marriage to a king, the family sought to entrench themselves into the royal hierarchy of King’s Landing. Following the poisoning of King Joffrey (by family matriarch Olenna), Margery is again offered to the Lannisters as a wife for the young King Tommen.
Seeing the Tyrells as a threat to her control of the kings and the capital, Cersei successfully has Margery and her brother Loras locked up by the Faith Militant. When she finds that the Faith Militant has gone behind her back and hijacked her two hostages, Cersei channels her inner “Mad King” and burns the Sept and all of them to the ground. Managing to kill the entirety of the Faith Militant, Margery, Loras and Mace Tyrell all in the same green ball of fire, Cersei leaves only the elderly Olenna as the sole survivor of a once proud family.
Prospects For The Future:
Sadly, House Tyrell will die with the Queen of Thorns. She cannot have any more children and all of the people (in the books, Loras has two brothers that do not exist on the show) in her family were wiped out in an instant. For her remaining days, Olenna will use all of Highgarden’s existing power and influence to back Daenerys’ claim and overthrow the evil monarch that murdered her family and ended their dynasty.