House Lightfoot

House Lightfoot of the Dreadfort is a new noble house in the North, and is a cadet branch of House Lightfoot of the Lightfort. It was created upon the death of Lady Leona Bolton of the Dreadfort and the extinction of the main line of House Bolton. The lands and titles of the Dreadfort were bestowed upon Ser Jon Lightfoot, a ward of Lord Tallhart, due to his strong dynastic claim to the seat, passing over several other claimants and pretenders.

The Lightfoots blazen their arms with a line of white footprints in bend, upon a field of dark brown, and their words are 'Two Steps Ahead'.

Dynastic Claim to the Dreadfort
The claim of House Lightfoot to the Dreadfort goes back several generations. Both the final, and penultimate rulers of House Bolton, Lady Leona and Lord Gregor died with no issue, and their father, Lord Royce Bolton, was an only child, with no siblings. His father, Lord Rogar Bolton, had a younger brother, Rorge Bolton, who married a Lady of House Stout. This union produced three children, two sons and a daughter, though only the daughter lived long enough to have issue, and this Mariah Bolton was wed to the second son of Lord Rodrik Tallhart, a boy called Alyn. Mariah would pass away in childbirth only two years into this marriage, but she would give her husband a daughter, Raya Tallhart, who, upon achieving her majority, was wed to Walton Lightfoot, the younger brother to the Lord of the Lightfort. It was the product of this union; Ser Jon Lightfoot, who would claim ownership of the Dreadfort upon the passing of his second cousins.