House Baratheon of King's Landing

House Baratheon of King's Landing is a cadet branch of House Baratheon of Storm's End and the current royal House of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, ruling from its seat of King's Landing.

The cadet branch was initially founded by King Robert I Baratheon in 281 AC following his victory over House Targaryen during Robert's Rebellion. He awarded his old titles from before he became king to his youngest brother, Renly Baratheon, effectively making him the head of the old House Baratheon of Storm's End. Following Robert's death, House Baratheon of King's Landing effective became a puppet house of House Lannister with the succession of Joffrey I Baratheon, as all three of Robert's supposed children, including Tommen, Myrcella, and Joffrey himself, were in fact being bastards sired by Jaime Lannister. In an unintentional and ironic reflection of this, Joffrey changed the branch's sigil to a split combination of the Baratheon and Lannister sigils. Following the suicide of King Tommen I Baratheon in 303 AC, House Baratheon of King's Landing, as well as House Baratheon as a whole, was rendered extinct.

None-the-less, House Baratheon of Storm's End was refounded in 305 AC when one of Robert's bastards, Gendry, was legitimised by Queen Daenerys Targaryen as Gendry Baratheon and granted House Baratheon's traditional titles from before Robert's Rebellion. In addition, she named him her heir presumptive, and following Daenerys untimely death during the Great War, House Baratheon of King's Landing was refounded once more in much the same fashion as Robert did 24 years previous, with the now-King Gendry legitimising his younger bastard brother Edric Storm as Edric Baratheon, and granting him his previously held titles.

Gendry also reverted the branch's sigil back to the standard Baratheon sigil of a crowned black stag salient on a gold field, reflecting what it was under the reign of his father. Their House words remain "Ours is the Fury".