Editing Robb Stark (section)

=== Television adaptation ===
[[File:Richard Madden (9347943769) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Richard Madden]] plays the role of Robb Stark in the television series.]]

Robb Stark is portrayed by Richard Madden in the television adaption of the series.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/game-of-thrones-q-a-richard-madden-on-robb-starks-endgame-20130602 |title='Game of Thrones' Q&A: Richard Madden on Robb Stark's Endgame |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |first=Sean T. |last=Collins |date=June 3, 2013 |access-date=April 15, 2019 |publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]}}</ref> There are some slight differences between Robb's TV portrayal and the book version. Robb's age is changed from age 14 to age 17 at the start of the series. Instead of marrying Jeyne Westerling, he marries a healer from [[World of A Song of Ice and Fire#Volantis|Volantis]] named Talisa Maegyr. Robb is not a POV character in the books, but he is given a much larger role in the TV series.

[[James Poniewozik]] comments in ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'', on Madden's performance in "[[The Pointy End]]": "both the script and Richard Madden show in deft, quick strokes how the crisis focuses him. (This is another case where having a live actor does a better job of showing a transition that seemed more abrupt in the book.)"<ref name="TimeTPE">{{cite magazine |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/06/game-of-thrones-watch-the-quality-of-mercy/ |title=Game of Thrones Watch: the Quality of Mercy |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]] |first=James |last=Poniewozik |access-date=February 7, 2016 |date=June 6, 2011}}</ref>

Madden said that he learned that the character would be killed off early on but otherwise read the books season by season, focusing primarily on the scripts: "I'm, as an actor, forced to bend the path I put Robb on and change it and keep the surprises coming. Hopefully, I managed to do that."<ref name=Ryan>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/02/game-of-thrones-robb-stark_n_3368224.html |title='Game of Thrones' Robb Stark Speaks: Richard Madden Addresses Shocking Developments |first=Maureen |last=Ryan |work=[[HuffPost]] |date=February 7, 2013 |access-date= February 7, 2016 |publisher=[[Verizon Media]]}}</ref>

==== Season 1 ====
Robb is the eldest son of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn. When King Robert Baratheon summons Eddard to King's Landing to serve as Hand of the King, Robb becomes acting Lord of Winterfell. After his father is arrested for apparent treason, Robb summons the Northern bannermen and assembles an army of 20,000 in an effort to rescue his father and aid the Riverlands, which have come under attack by the armies of House Lannister. Catelyn brokers an alliance between the North and House Frey when Robb consents to marrying one of Lord Walder Frey's daughters, allowing the Stark army to strategically cross the river at the Twins and launch a surprise engagement against the Lannisters, successfully capturing Ser Jaime Lannister in the process. After the death of King Robert and the execution of Eddard Stark on the orders of King Joffrey Baratheon, a bastard born of incest between Jaime and Cersei Lannister, the Northern and Riverland lords declare their independence from the Iron Throne and proclaim Robb as the King in the North.

==== Season 2 ====
Robb proves to be a skillful military commander and he wins a succession of battles against Lord Tywin Lannister's forces, earning him the nickname "The Young Wolf". He sends his closest friend, Lord Theon Greyjoy, to the Iron Islands to broker an alliance with Lord Balon Greyjoy, Theon's father. In exchange for Greyjoy support and the use of their naval fleet, Robb intends to recognize the Iron Islands' independence. Robb also sends his mother to parlay with Renly Baratheon, who has declared himself king and has amassed an army of 100,000. However, Stannis Baratheon, having also declared himself king via the lawful line of succession, prepares to engage Renly. Catelyn is successful in brokering an alliance with Renly, but he is assassinated by Stannis' using blood magic. Theon fails to convince his father to ally with Robb, and instead Balon declares himself a king and launches an invasion of the North. Theon decides to capture Winterfell to earn his father's favor. Robb offers amnesty to the Ironborn invaders on the condition that they hand over Theon. Robb soon meets and falls in love with Talisa Maegyr, a foreign healer from Volantis.

Stannis assaults King's Landing at the Battle of Blackwater Bay and is defeated when Tywin, joined by the armies of [[House Tyrell]] via a newly brokered alliance, arrives and stops the city from being sacked.  While Robb travels to the Crag to negotiate a surrender, Jaime escapes and kills the son of Lord Rickard Karstark before he is recaptured. Catelyn stops Rickard from killing Jaime but discontent within the Stark army begins to grow. Additionally, despite his mother's protest, Robb breaks his engagement with the Freys and marries Talisa. As a result, the Freys abandon the Stark army.

==== Season 3 ====
Believing Jaime to be her only chance of seeing her daughters again, Catelyn frees him and commands [[Brienne of Tarth]] to bring him to King's Landing in exchange for Sansa Stark. Furious, Robb has his mother imprisoned. He leads his army to capture [[World of A Song of Ice and Fire#Harrenhal|Harrenhal]], but finds that hundreds of his imprisoned bannermen have been slaughtered. Upon learning of the death of his grandfather, Lord Hoster Tully, Robb returns to Riverrun for the funeral. Robb's uncle and the new Lord of Riverrun, Edmure Tully, is scolded by Robb for previously disobeying a command when he attacked Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]'s forces. While at Riverrun, Robb executes Rickard Karstark after he murders two teenage Lannister squires. As a result, the Karstarks abandon his army. In order to regain an alliance with the Freys and bolster his army, Robb arranges for the reluctant Edmure to marry one of Walder Frey's daughters. With the advisement of his mother, Robb prepares to invade [[World of A Song of Ice and Fire#Casterly Rock|Casterly Rock]], the domain of House Lannister.

At the Twins, Walder Frey provides guest right to Robb, his family and bannermen. The wedding commences but Walder betrays Robb in an event secretly orchestrated by Tywin Lannister, Walder, and Lord Roose Bolton. Talisa, pregnant with Robb's child, is stabbed in the stomach and killed. Robb's entire army (save for the Boltons and Freys), are murdered. Robb himself is shot with multiple crossbow bolts, taunted by Walder, and subsequently executed by Roose with a knife to the heart. Catelyn kills Walder's wife but she too is executed when her throat is slit. Robb's corpse is decapitated and his direwolf Grey Wind's head is sewn on in its place, and the corpse is then paraded around as the Stark forces are slaughtered. Robb's great-uncle, Ser [[Brynden Tully]] escapes, but Edmure is held captive and Walder becomes Lord of Riverrun. Roose once again swears fealty to the Iron Throne and is granted the title of the Warden of the North. This event comes to be known as the Red Wedding.

==== Legacy ====
House Lannister strips House Stark of all lands and titles after Robb's failed rebellion against the Iron Throne. The Boltons recapture Winterfell from Theon, expel the Ironborn from the North, and begin to rule with an iron fist. Sansa is forced to marry Roose's legitimized bastard, Lord [[Ramsay Bolton]]. Tywin and Roose are later both killed by their own sons. The remnants of Robb's army, now led by Brynden Tully, recapture Riverrun and hold it until Jaime Lannister retakes it and Brynden is killed. Years later, Arya Stark returns to Westeros, murders Walder Frey and his sons, and poisons all of his male descendants, ultimately exterminating House Frey. Sansa escapes from the Boltons and she and Jon Snow successfully destroy House Bolton and retake Winterfell. Jon is crowned the King in the North, restoring Stark rule in the process. With the arrival of Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]], Jon declares fealty and becomes Warden of the North. However, following her death and Jon's banishment, the North is given permission by the newly appointed King [[Bran Stark]] to regain its independence, and the Northern lords declare Sansa the Queen in the North.