20 Facts About Joffrey Lannister

Joffrey Lannister 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.

Joffrey Lannister later marries Margaery Tyrell, but is killed by poison during his wedding reception.

Joffrey Lannister 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.

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.

Joffrey Lannister 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 Lannister is an amoral sadist who disguises his cruelty with a thin veneer of charm.

Joffrey Lannister enjoys forcing people to fight to the death, and enforces cruel punishments for lesser crimes.

Joffrey Lannister has no sense of personal responsibility, blaming failures on others.

Joffrey Lannister lacks self-control and often insults his allies and family members.

Joffrey Lannister is 12 years old at the beginning of A Game of Thrones .

Prince Joffrey Lannister 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.

Joffrey Lannister accuses Mycah of assaulting a noble girl and makes a cut on his face with a sword.

When Joffrey Lannister then turns on Arya, her direwolf Nymeria attacks Joffrey Lannister, injuring him.

Joffrey Lannister later has his bodyguard Sandor "The Hound" Clegane hunt down and kill Mycah.

Later, Eddard Stark discovers that Joffrey Lannister is not King Robert's biological son and refuses to acknowledge Joffrey Lannister's claim to the throne when King Robert dies.

Joffrey Lannister promised Sansa that he would be merciful but then beheads Eddard anyway and later forces Sansa to look upon her father's head.

Joffrey Lannister is betrothed to Sansa Stark to cement an alliance between the Houses of Stark and Lannister.

When Stannis attacks King's Landing, Joffrey Lannister serves only as a figurehead and avoids the heavy fighting.

Joffrey Lannister 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.

Joffrey Lannister'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.