Portrayed by Iain Glen

Status: Deceased

Origin: Bear Island

Episode Appearances: 52

First Seen: ‘Winter Is Coming’

Last Seen: ‘The Last of the Starks’

BACKGROUND

Ser Jorah Mormont is the son of Jeor Mormont, of House Mormont in Bear Island, and vassals of House Stark in the North. Jorah had a distinguished early career, and participated in the  Siege of Pyke during the Greyjoy Rebellion, for which he was knighted by King Robert Baratheon. His father later voluntarily joined the Night's Watch in favor of Jorah becoming Lord of Bear Island and head of House Mormont. He is intelligent, literate and well traveled, knowing the histories of the eastern continent of Essos and speaking several tongues. Although stoic, short-spoken and sometimes cold, Jorah does have the ability to warm up to people once they earn his respect.

Jorah married Lynesse Hightower, but his new wife had expensive tastes that Jorah struggled to fund. Ultimately, he resorted to selling poachers into slavery, which has been illegal in the Seven Kingdoms for millennia and is a great taboo throughout Westeros. Jorah was eventually caught and disgraced. He was stripped of his Lordship and fled to the Free Cities in Essos to avoid being executed by Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell, the Warden of the North. Upon his departure, Jorah decided to leave his family's ancestral Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw, behind. The sword is now in possession by his father Jeor at the Night’s Watch. After fleeing, Jorah served in several mercenary companies such as the  Golden Company. However, his income would not be enough to satisfy his wife Lynesse, and she eventually left him and became a concubine for a richer man.

He is called “Jorah the Andal” by the Dothraki, a race of nomadic horse-mounted warriors, as they assume that all people from Westeros are Andals. However, Jorah is actually a Northman, descended from the First Men. Besides the common tongue of Westeros, Ser Jorah is fluent in the Dothraki language.