Bartimos Celtigar

Lord of Claw Isle and head of House Celtigar during the Dance of the Dragons, a descendant of Lord Edwell Celtigar. Unrelenting, incorruptible, ingenious, and very wealthy, he was already an old man when the war came. He sat on Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen's black council and urged her to use her advantage in dragons to seize King's Landing from Aegon II, though she heeded the cautious counsel of Prince Daemon instead. When Rhaenyra took the capital, Bartimos was named lord treasurer and master of coin and found the treasury bare, the greens having shipped away three quarters of the gold. To refill it he revived and outdid his ancestor Edwell's hated levies, doubling taxes on wine and ale, tripling port fees, charging shopkeepers, innkeepers, and householders, restoring the city-gate tolls of Rego Draz at triple cost, and even charging three pennies to watch executions in the Dragonpit. After the Two Betrayers turned at Tumbleton he pressed Rhaenyra to arrest the baseborn dragonriders Ser Addam Velaryon and Nettles, and argued for a tax on bastards. When riots broke out in 130 AC a mob overran his manse and cut down his kinsman Arthor; Bartimos was bound, tortured into surrendering his hidden wealth, and unmanned by Wat the Tanner, who paraded his severed head and genitals through the streets. He is mentioned in Fire & Blood, The Rise of the Dragon, and The Princess and the Queen.