The chart follows the HBO series through all eight seasons
The chart is drawn from the HBO series, which ran for eight seasons from 2011 to 2019, rather than from the novels by George R. R. Martin. Seasons six to eight continue past the novels that had been published, and several facts drawn here come from those seasons, namely Jon’s parentage, Rhaegar’s secret marriage to Lyanna and the deaths of Rickon, Tommen, Cersei and Jaime. The chart shows each family as it stands when the series ends.
Two houses are drawn in full, the Starks of Winterfell and the Lannisters, with the marriages that tie them to the throne. Rhaegar Targaryen appears only as Jon’s father and Robert Baratheon only as Cersei’s husband. Everyone else is left off, because a genogram that tries to hold every house stops being readable.
| Person | Family line | What the series shows |
|---|---|---|
| Rickard Stark | Stark | Father of Ned and Lyanna, executed before the series begins |
| Ned and Catelyn Stark | Stark | Parents of Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon |
| Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen | Stark and Targaryen | Jon’s birth parents, revealed in seasons 6 and 7 |
| Jon Snow | Stark and Targaryen | Raised at Winterfell as Ned’s son, and the index person here |
| Tywin and Joanna Lannister | Lannister | Parents of the twins Cersei and Jaime and of Tyrion |
| Robert Baratheon | Baratheon, joined to the chart by marriage | King and Cersei’s husband, who believes her children are his |
| Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen | Lannister by birth | Children of Cersei and Jaime, all dead by season 6 |
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Jon Snow needs a birth line and a foster line
For most of the series Jon is presented as Ned’s illegitimate son by a mother he names only once, as Wylla, and will not discuss, raised at Winterfell with Ned’s five children by Catelyn. A chart drawn in season 1 would hang Jon from Ned alone.
The season 6 finale shows Ned at the bedside of his dying sister Lyanna, who asks him to protect her son. The season 7 finale adds that Rhaegar’s first marriage had been annulled and that he married Lyanna in secret, which makes Jon their legitimate son, born Aegon Targaryen.
The genogram records both facts at once. A solid line runs from the couple Lyanna and Rhaegar down to Jon, because they are his birth parents. A dotted line runs from Ned, the notation for a foster parent, because Ned is the man who raised him. Catelyn has no line to Jon, since Ned alone took him in.
A secret relationship explains the three Lannister children
Tywin and Joanna Lannister had three children. Cersei and Jaime are twins, which the notation shows by joining both to one point on the sibling line. Joanna died giving birth to Tyrion, the youngest.
Cersei is married to King Robert Baratheon, but the three children she raises as his are Jaime’s, as Ned Stark discovers in season 1. The chart therefore hangs Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen from a dashed line between the twins, the notation for a secret relationship, and leaves the marriage line to Robert without children.
None of the three outlives the series. Joffrey is poisoned at his wedding in season 4, Myrcella is poisoned in season 5 and Tommen dies in season 6. Cersei and Jaime die together in season 8, which leaves Tyrion as the only Lannister drawn here who survives.
What the chart leaves out to stay readable
Ned’s brothers Brandon and Benjen, Robb’s wife Talisa and Robert’s brothers Stannis and Renly are left off. So are Sansa’s marriages. She is forced to marry Tyrion in season 3, a marriage that is never consummated, and is married to Ramsay Bolton in season 5. A couple line from Sansa to Tyrion would join two generations and cross the whole chart.
Ned and Lyanna’s mother is left off the chart, so Rickard is drawn as a single parent. Daenerys Targaryen is Rhaegar’s sister and so Jon’s aunt. Drawing her would need her parents and a third branch, so she is described here and left off the chart.
Read the chart in the order a genogram asks
A genogram is read from the person it is drawn around, outward through the parent lines, and then across to the other families. The same order works for this chart.
- Start at Jon Snow
His double outline marks the index person, the person the chart is drawn around.
- Follow the solid line up
It leads to Lyanna and Rhaegar, the birth parents the series reveals in its last seasons.
- Follow the dotted line
It leads to Ned, because the notation draws a foster parent with dots.
- Cross to the Lannisters
The angled lines above Cersei and Jaime mark twins, and the dashed line with a triangle between them marks a secret relationship.
- Count the crosses
An X through a symbol marks a death, and by the final season most of the people drawn have one.
Draw a fictional family of your own in the editor
The Game of Thrones genogram above was drawn in Genogram Builder with the same symbols and lines as any family chart. Every line on it comes from the standard notation, including the foster line and the secret relationship, and the key lists only the marks the chart uses.
To draw a fictional family of your own, start from the blank sheet and add one house at a time, then join the houses through their marriages. The genogram examples show real and fictional families drawn the same way, and the Little Miss Sunshine genogram reads a much smaller family from a single film.
Common questions
Whether the chart follows the books or the series
The series. Seasons six to eight continue past the novels that had been published when they aired, so Jon’s parentage as drawn here and several of the deaths come from the screen.
Why no years are written on the chart
The series gives almost no birth or death years, and the editor turns any birth year it is given into an age. A death is marked with an X and no year.
Where the Targaryens and the Tyrells fit
Only Rhaegar is drawn, as Jon’s father. The Tyrells marry into the Lannister line through Margaery, who marries Joffrey and then Tommen. Both families would need a branch of their own.
Using the chart for a class assignment
Draw your own Game of Thrones genogram rather than copying this one, and say which seasons it covers. The guide on how to write a genogram paper explains how to describe a chart and set it as a figure.
Sources and methodology
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