Joffrey Lonmouth
The Knight of Kisses — Ser Laenor Velaryon's favorite and more, a stormlands knight with an easy smile and an unwise taste for leverage.
The fuller tale
Called the Knight of Kisses, Joffrey Lonmouth is a stormlands knight of easy charm and an unwise taste for leverage — Ser Laenor Velaryon's favorite and, by the open secret every courtier politely declines to mention directly, considerably more than that.
His mistake, at Laenor and Rhaenyra's betrothal feast, is guessing correctly at Ser Criston Cole's own feelings for the princess and saying so with a smile sharp enough that Criston cannot let the insult pass unanswered in front of the assembled court.
The page and the screen
The two tellings place his death at slightly different events with the same essential cause — Criston Cole's violence in response to Joffrey's needling. The show sets it at the betrothal feast itself; Fire & Blood places it specifically at the wedding tourney that follows.
Where they stand, season by season
Mentioned in the chronicle
- At the betrothal feast Ser Criston, refused as a paramour and half mad with broken vows, beats Laenor's lover Ser Joffrey Lonmouth to death on the floor. (S1·E5)
Their fate — if death has found them, it is written here. Open at your peril.
The show: Beaten to death at the betrothal feast (S1·E5)
The books: Slain by Ser Criston in the wedding tourney (F&B, ch. 1)
The Knight of Kisses knew Laenor's secret and guessed Ser Criston's, and made the mistake of saying so with a smile. At the betrothal feast Criston Cole beat his face to ruin on the dance floor while the court watched — the first blood of vows Criston had already broken.
In the show, Criston Cole beats Joffrey's face to ruin on the dance floor of the betrothal feast while the assembled court watches, the first public blood spilled by a man who has just broken his own sworn vows in every sense but the literal one.
Fire & Blood locates the killing at the wedding tourney itself: Ser Criston's morningstar caves in Joffrey's helm and everything beneath it. Laenor wore his lover's favor into that same tourney; Criston, the book notes, walked away wearing the queen's newly sharpened regard instead.