Balman Byrch

A knight of House Byrch and husband to Lady Falyse Stokeworth, heir to Stokeworth, whom he had wed ten years without issue. Once a renowned tourney jouster and reckoned among the handsomest knights of his day, Ser Balman had by his later years run to a pot-belly and thinning hair, fond of food, drink, and hippocras, and Queen Cersei Lannister thought him a fool. In A Feast for Crows she manipulated him into a plot to murder Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, looking for a hunting mishap; instead the chivalrous Balman challenged Bronn to a duel at Stokeworth, trusting in the former sellsword's want of skill ahorse. Bronn drove his lance through Balman's mount, which fell and crushed his legs; in exchange for a hollow promise of mercy Balman confessed Cersei's part in the scheme, and as he cried out for a maester Bronn killed him with a knife through the eye in 300 AC.