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“The seed is strong.”
―Jon Arryn's last words.
“You told me to put the tears in Jon's wine, and I did. For Robert, and for us! And I wrote Catelyn and told her the Lannisters had killed my lord husband, just as you said.”
―Lysa Arryn confessing to Petyr Baelish her responsibility of poisoning Jon Arryn as well as her framing of the Lannisters for the crime.
Lord Jon Arryn is a major posthumous character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and the
first season
of the HBO television adaptation,Game of Thrones. He was the Lord of the Eyrie, Defender of the Vale, and Warden of the East. He was also the head of House Arryn. Jon is the husband of Lady Lysa Arryn and the father of his only surviving child Robert "Sweetrobin" Arryn. He was also the foster father of Lord Eddard Stark and King Robert I Baratheon.
Jon Arryn's death, as well as Lysa's framing of the Lannisters for it, had far-reaching consequences upon most of the continent of Westeros as it serves as one of the main events that would result in a downward spiral that ultimately led to the multi-theater civil war known as the War of the Five Kings.
Eddard named his nephew and adoptive son Jon Snow after Jon Arryn.
Jon was portrayed by John Standing but only as a corpse in the first season of the TV series.
