Joffrey Baratheon is characterized as a spoiled, sadistic bully and frequently torments his family as well as Sansa Stark, to whom he is betrothed in the first novel.
25 Facts About Joffrey Baratheon
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Joffrey Baratheon later marries Margaery Tyrell, but is killed by poison during his wedding reception.
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Joffrey Baratheon is portrayed by Irish actor Jack Gleeson in the television adaptation Game of Thrones, a role for which he received international recognition and critical praise.
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Joffrey Baratheon is not a point of view character in the novels, so his actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people, such as his uncle Tyrion Lannister and his one-time fiancee Sansa Stark.
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Joffrey Baratheon's appearance is referred to as his one redeeming quality.
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In public, Joffrey is allegedly the oldest son and heir of King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei Lannister, both of whom entered into a political marriage alliance after Robert took the throne by force from the "Mad King" Aerys II Targaryen.
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Joffrey Baratheon has a younger sister, Myrcella, and a younger brother, Tommen, both of whom are products of Jaime and Cersei's incestuous relationship.
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Joffrey Baratheon is an amoral sadist who disguises his cruelty with a thin veneer of charm.
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Joffrey Baratheon enjoys forcing people to fight to the death, and enforces cruel punishments for lesser crimes.
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Joffrey Baratheon has no sense of personal responsibility, blaming failures on others.
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Joffrey Baratheon lacks self-control and often insults his allies and family members.
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Joffrey Baratheon is impulsive, which frequently leads him to make rash decisions.
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Joffrey Baratheon is 12 years old at the beginning of A Game of Thrones.
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Prince Joffrey is taken by his parents to Winterfell and is betrothed to Sansa Stark in order to create an alliance between House Baratheon and House Stark.
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Joffrey Baratheon accuses Mycah of assaulting a noble girl and makes a cut on his face with a sword.
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When Joffrey Baratheon then turns on Arya, her direwolf Nymeria attacks Joffrey Baratheon, injuring him.
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Joffrey Baratheon later has his bodyguard Sandor "The Hound" Clegane hunt down and kill Mycah.
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Later, Eddard Stark discovers that Joffrey Baratheon is not King Robert's biological son and refuses to acknowledge Joffrey Baratheon's claim to the throne when King Robert dies.
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Joffrey Baratheon promised Sansa that he would be merciful but then beheads Eddard anyway and later forces Sansa to look upon her father's head.
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Joffrey Baratheon is briefly seen in A Clash of Kings.
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Joffrey Baratheon is betrothed to Sansa Stark to cement an alliance between the Houses of Stark and Lannister.
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When Stannis attacks King's Landing, Joffrey Baratheon serves only as a figurehead and avoids the heavy fighting.
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Joffrey Baratheon seems to take little interest in his betrothed, but is amazed and altered by her ways of winning the people's favor, in which he takes part.
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At the height of the festivities, Joffrey Baratheon is suddenly overcome by poison and dies.
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Joffrey Baratheon's last act is an attempt to point at Tyrion, and as a result Tyrion is falsely accused and ordered arrested by Cersei, but it is later revealed that Lady Olenna Tyrell and Lord Petyr Baelish were the true perpetrators.