House Baratheon

House Baratheon of Storm's End is one of the Great Houses of Westeros, and is the principal house in the Stormlands, which they rule as Lords Paramount of the Stormlands. Their seat, Storm's End, is an ancient castle raised by the Storm Kings from the now-extinct House Durrandon. The Baratheon sigil is a crowned black stag on a field of gold. Their words are Ours is the Fury.

Traits
Members of the family tend to be tall and powerfully built, with black hair and blue eyes, as well as strong, square jawlines. They are known for their mercurial tempers.

Aegon's Conquest
House Baratheon was created when Orys Baratheon, one of Aegon I Targaryen's generals, his closest companion, and his rumored bastard half-brother, took Argella Durrandon, the only daughter of Argilac Durrandon, the last Storm King, to wife. Orys took the sigil and words of House Durrandon for his own and became the first Lord of Storm's End. Through the female line, House Baratheon descents from King Durran Godsgrief, who founded the kingdom of the Storm Kings during the Age of Heroes.

Rule of Aenys I
Ser Raymont Baratheon, a younger son of Lord Orys Baratheon, was a member of the Kingsguard of King Aenys I Targaryen, and saved the life of his king during the Faith Militant uprising, when the Poor Fellows attempted to murder the king in his bed.

The Dance of Dragons
During the Dance of the Dragons, Lord Borros Baratheon sided the House with Aegon the Usurper and the greens, despite his late father, Lord Boremund's support of the blacks and relation to Rhaenys Targaryen (through his sister, Jocelyn Baratheon). Prince Aemond Targaryen was sent to Storm's End, to get Lord Borros to side with Aegon II, by offering a betrothal between himself and one of Lord Borros' four daughters. It is unknown whether this marriage occurred prior to Aemond's death the next year. Lord Borros was reluctant to face the dragons during the war, but marched with his army towards the end of the war after word reached him of Aegon the Usurper's death at Dragonstone. He would take King's Landing but Queen Rhaenyra would hold the Red Keep until the forces of Cregan Stark and the Tully Lads came to relieve her. Borros then marched against the approaching riverlander-northmen army, and fought in the Battle of the Kingdroad, where he was killed by young Lord Kermit Tully.