Joffrey Baratheon
Character in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
Character in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
Joffrey Baratheon is a fictional character in A Song of Ice and Fire series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and one of several antagonists of its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, alongside Ramsay Bolton. Introduced in 1996's A Game of Thrones, he subsequently appears in A Clash of Kings (1998) and A Storm of Swords (2000). Joffrey is officially the eldest son and heir of King Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister, but he is actually the eldest child of an incestuous relationship between Cersei and her twin brother, Jaime Lannister. After Cersei engineers Robert's death, she conspires to secure the throne for her illegitimate son. This, along with Joffrey's execution of Lord Ned Stark of Winterfell, triggers a power struggle in Westeros known as the War of Five Kings. His mother's powerful family, the Lannisters, manages to remove most opposition to its rule, despite the boy-king's frequent blunders. He is characterized as a spoiled, sadistic bully...
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