Bethany Conklyn

Bethany Conklyn was the first born of Ser Brynden Conklyn. She married Olyvar Redhawk before the Shattering and had three children by him. She died in child bed when giving birth to Leona Redhawk.

Appearance and Character
Bethany was a pretty, but very slight, woman. She was sickly as a child and suffered from poor health as she aged. She was very pale and the Dornish weather did not agree to her, which kept her inside most of the time. After giving birth to her first child, Henry, she became more devout and seriously considered joining the Silent Sisters. However, her father and husband disallowed it, and so she ended up giving Lord Olyvar two more children, both girls to his displeasure.

History
Bethany Conklyn was the first born daughter of Ser Brynden Conklyn of the Reach. She married Ser Olyvar Redhawk who would become the Lord of the Perch. She gave birth to one son and two daughters and died giving birth to the last child, Leona.

Bethany became very devout after her first very difficult pregnancy with Henry, her only son. She believed she only survived due to the grace of the Mother. After her second pregnancy, which went smoother tha

n the first, Bethany attributed it even further to the gods. Unfortunately, no amount of praying kept her from bleeding to death after her youngest daughter was born.

Her time at the Perch was filled with little joy, as her marriage was never one of love, and it never grew into such. He husband was away at war for a large part of the beginning of her marriage and she felt alone in a strange place. It did not help that the weather in the Red Mountains did not agree with her, keeping her largely confined indoors a great deal of the time.