Melessa Florent

Eldest daughter of Lord Alester Florent of Brightwater Keep, wed to Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill. Bore her lord husband five children: first Samwell, then three daughters in as many years, and at last a second son, Dickon. Close to her gentle eldest, she would sing the Song of the Seven with him over the cradle of his baby brother, until her husband forbade it, fearing soft songs would make a soft boy. When Sam was sent to the Wall it was to his mother at Horn Hill that he meant to send Gilly and her child for safekeeping.