Keeper of the Keys

From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
Revision as of 07:57, 23 December 2015 by Red Rabbit (talk | contribs) (References and Notes)
Jump to: navigation, search

Keeper of the Keys is a position of in the royal court in the Seven Kingdoms under the rule of House Targaryen and House Baratheon of King's Landing. There are four Keepers of the Keys, which are managed and selected by the Master of Coin.[1]

The four Keepers control the keys that open certain doors and chests that belong to the royal household and oversee the items that these locks guard. One holds charge of the king's jewels, another has charge of the king's purse -- those funds that the king keeps purely for his own interests -- another commands the key to the Red Keep's armory, and the last holds the keys to the king's manors outside of King's Landing. Their responsibilities include hiring of assistants, overseeing investments of personal wealth, and acquiring such things as the king desires.[2]

History

Tyrion Lannister notes that several key offices of the royal bureaucracy are filled by Littlefinger's men, among them the all four Keepers of the Keys.[1]

References and Notes
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?title=Keeper_of_the_Keys&oldid=177760
awoiaf.westeros.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-43
23061
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:Z467B3PLWWFVS2KABYQT4IPS5QFQUVDY
<urn:uuid:0f348687-6c14-4293-a02e-bf2d05105450>
2018-10-16T12:47:11Z
104.18.46.226
text/html
sha1:3L3D5AQYCULNICZ3NR7JFFNKQSDAI37V
<urn:uuid:1785c76b-7030-423f-be48-12fb77048537>
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?title=Keeper_of_the_Keys&oldid=177760
response
<urn:uuid:64bcac09-e3ed-4032-97e0-354c423bac10>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-43
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2018
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-91-224-137.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/