Thaddeus Rowan

Lord of Goldengrove and head of House Rowan during the Dance of the Dragons. Bluff, cheerful, and well-liked (and, by 132 AC, bald and plump), he declared Goldengrove for the blacks and led an army against Lord Ormund Hightower, sharing in the apparent victory at the Battle of the Honeywine in 129 AC until Prince Daeron Targaryen and his dragon Tessarion reversed it and drove him north. He had two sons by his first wife and five by his second; when Lady Baela Targaryen fled rather than wed him in 132 AC, the regents soothed his pride with a betrothal to the fourteen-year-old Floris Baratheon, who died in childbed two years after. He served as a regent and as Hand to King Aegon III, but during the Lysene Spring he was accused of conspiring with House Rogare, tortured until his teeth were knocked out, and made to confess falsely — even, when goaded by the fool Mushroom, to causing the Doom of Valyria. Reinstated yet plainly broken, he was gently dismissed and died on the road home to Goldengrove in 135 AC. His deeds are recorded in Fire & Blood and The Princess and the Queen.