Another benefit of Joffrey's death for Tywin was the fact that the murder was pinned on Tyrion. It was no secret that Tywin treated Tyrion differently and that the father-son duo had a horrible relationship.
By taking part in Joffrey's murder, or ignoring the plans for the attempt, Tywin could have planned for Tyrion being the sole suspect.
After Tyrion realized that his murder trial was just a sham to give his father an excuse to execute him, he instead asked for a trial by combat, in which Oberyn Martell took Tyrion's place and was ultimately killed. After being secretly released from jail, Tyrion confronted his father and asked why he would pin a murder on him that most people, including Tywin, knew he didn't commit. Tywin claimed that he wasn't going to carry out the execution, but Tyrion had heard enough and killed his father with a crossbow on the toilet no less.
With Tywin dead, Game of Thrones fans will never know the truth - but a lot of signs point to the Lannister patriarch trying to change the future of Westeros by allowing Joffrey's death. Kara Hedash is a features editor and writer for Screen Rant. From time to time, she dives into the world's most popular franchises but Kara primarily focuses on evergreen topics.
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Enraged and humiliated that Tyrion outwitted him, Joffrey stalks over and empties his wine goblet onto his uncle's head, oblivious that his actions are observed with increasing and obvious disgust by his bride, the guests, and even his mother and grandfather.
Joffrey cuts the Pigeon pie , filled with live pigeons, so they fly out and create a spectacle when it is cut. Joffrey then declares he is thirsty and wants Tyrion to be his new cupbearer. He offers him the cup to fill, then drops it and kicks it under the table, but Sansa picks it up for Tyrion. Tyrion fills it but silently refuses to kneel to Joffrey, prompting Joffrey to repeat the demand in increasing, petulant rage. Margaery distracts him by indicating the arrival of the traditional pigeon pie , and Joffrey takes a gulp of the wine from the goblet before handing it to his wife to set it on the table, close to Lady Olenna.
As Joffrey cuts the pie with his Valyrian steel sword and shares some with Margaery, Tyrion and Sansa attempt to leave, but Joffrey calls them back and demands Tyrion bring him the cup again, as the dry pie is making him thirsty. Tyrion obliges and hands Joffrey his cup. After Joffrey takes a gulp, he starts coughing, and so he takes another gulp of wine to quell the cough.
His coughing becomes more violent and it quickly becomes so severe that his throat closes and he cannot breathe; Margaery notices and shouts that he is choking. Lurching forward, Joffrey falls to the ground, desperately gasping for breath and convulsing so violently that it causes him to vomit. Panic erupts amongst the guests, and Lady Olenna shouts for the Kingsguard to help their King.
Jaime and Cersei rush to his side to aid him, but he continues to gag, as blood runs out of his nose and his face turns grotesquely purple. With his last strength, the King attempts to point accusingly to his uncle, seemingly believing him to be the culprit. Tyrion, meanwhile, has picked up the wine goblet, inspecting it for poison. The scleras whites of Joffrey's eyes turn red and begin to bleed and wheezing out his last breath, he dies.
In blind grief and rage, the knee-jerk reaction of Cersei is to assume Joffrey actually knew who his killer was and accuses Tyrion of poisoning him. Tyrion is promptly arrested by the Kingsguard. Tommen , Joffrey's younger brother and heir presumptive, becomes king.
Margaery and her family, despite her second widowhood - which causes Margaery to wonder if she is cursed - remain very much in favor, as the Tyrell support is still vital to the Lannisters. In the confusion of Joffrey's death, Dontos Hollard appears and calmly tells Sansa to go with him if she wants to live, and she relents. They slip away and flee the city. This was a rather large blow to Lannister security, given that Sansa was the last Stark heir publicly confirmed to still be alive.
Sansa and Dontos use a rowboat to reach a waiting ship owned by none other than Littlefinger. After Sansa climbs aboard, Littlefinger has Dontos killed - giving Sansa the explanation that Dontos only saved Sansa because he promised him gold, but he might later reveal the secret of her location, while a dead man will remain silent.
Sansa objects until Littlefinger reveals the truth behind the necklace. While later reminiscing with Margaery about Tyrion's upcoming trial , Olenna asserts her opinion that Tyrion is innocent, and implies that it was she who poisoned Joffrey in order to protect Margaery from the mental and physical abuse that Joffrey had quite clearly inflicted on Sansa whilst she was his betrothed.
Olenna's decision to kill Joffrey stemmed from her previous conversation with Sansa, in which she described Joffrey as a "monster". Baelish later revealed to Sansa that he had bigger plans for the Seven Kingdoms, but betrayed the Lannisters and sided with the Tyrells since he did not trust Joffrey, and also claimed that his role in betraying the Lannisters partially stemmed from their role in the Red Wedding , where Baelish's life-long love, Catelyn Stark , was murdered. While the crowd reacts sympathetically to " Cersei "'s sorrow over her dead son, Arya chuckles in amusement.
In her last moments, Olenna reveals to Jaime she was responsible for Joffrey's death, expressing regret only that Joffrey suffered since she was not fully aware of the poison's effects. She does not reveal the identity of her co-conspirator, though.
When Tyrion and Sansa are reunited for the first time since they last saw each other at Joffrey's wedding, Tyrion casually comments on that fact and called the whole event "a miserable affair", but Sansa sardonically remarks, "It had its moments. Tyrion and Sansa have never been formally exonerated of Joffrey's murder; since almost no one cared about Joffrey, and there have been far more important things to deal with Army of the Dead , it seems the whole thing was forgotten.
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the assassination of Joffrey at his wedding receives no name, unlike the Red Wedding, and is simply referred to as "Joffrey's wedding".
The term "Purple Wedding" is a fan-term referring to the wine used to assassinate Joffrey and the fact that purple is a color associated with royalty; and, of course, to draw a parallel with the infamous Red Wedding. The nickname became so popular that even George R.
Martin and the HBO production team have been known to use it. According to Martin, the conspirators want Joffrey to appear to die accidentally by choking, rather than a public assassination like the Red Wedding; [7] Cersei, however, does not fall for that.
Her paranoid mind, which so often makes her see imaginary enemies and schemes, correctly makes her realize Joffrey has been murdered, and later she also figures the Tyrells are to blame but she incorrectly blames Tyrion too. Joffrey's death is slightly different in the books: instead of taking place outside the Red Keep, the wedding feast takes place inside the Red Keep itself, with Joffrey, Margaery and their families seated near the Iron Throne ; in addition, Jaime doesn't return to King's Landing until shortly after the events.
Dying in his mother's lap, the awful child points his finger accusatorially at his uncle before succumbing to asphyxiation. In reality, it was Olenna who had poisoned the wine. She had arranged with Littlefinger to end Joffrey's life and used Sansa Stark in the process. Littlefinger had worked with Dontos Hollard to deliver the poison, which was hidden in a stone attached to a necklace given to Tyrion's wife by Olenna.
During the feast, the Tyrell matriarch sneakily took the poisoned stone from Sansa's necklace and put it in Joffrey's wine glass while he was mocking his uncle, cutting open his wedding cake with a sword, and just acting the pompous fool in general. The Kingchild drank the toxic alcohol and died - painfully. So why did she murder Joffrey when he had just made her granddaughter his Queen? The Tyrells were in a pretty good political position at the time thanks to this royal match and Cersei's marriage to Loras.
However, Joffrey's cruel reputation had preceded itself far too much and Lady Olenna did not want Margaery to become a victim to his evil and malicious whims.
She explains as much two episodes after the Purple Wedding, while trying to get Margaery to seduce her late husband's brother Tommen:. Olenna: The Queen Regent is rather distracted at the moment mourning her dear departed boy and accusing her brother of his murder, which he didn't commit.
Thanks to Olenna, Joffrey's death immediately led to some devastating consequences. Tyrion was arrested and accused of his nephew's murder, as was Sansa Stark, but she had already fled King's Landing with Littlefinger.
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