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what is the meaning of "breakspear"?


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Was Baelor using a spear as his main weapon? a Martell tradition by the way. 

or he broke somebody's spear somewhere and gained this name?

I remembered he unhorsed Daemon Blackfyre in jousting. not defeated him using a spear. 

 

Nope that is where he got his name, spear and lance are often synonymous,  lancia spezzata "broken lance" or "broken spear".

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I guess it should stay between him and Jena Dondarrion

 

if seriously, I think it is from the World book: he earned the nickname during the tourney on first Danaerys's wedding/betrothal when he defeated multiple opponents and Daemon in the final round = broke their spears. 

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i couldn't disagree more. Snap Lance is quite possibly the coolest name. Snap Lance sounds like the kind of guy who would bring the sunglasses to westeros just to David Caruso all his jousting victims

Then sir, we must agree to disagree. To me it sounds like the name of a male pornographic actor. This in no way negates the whole sunglasses bit though 

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i couldn't disagree more. Snap Lance is quite possibly the coolest name. Snap Lance sounds like the kind of guy who would bring the sunglasses to westeros just to David Caruso all his jousting victims

Then sir, we must agree to disagree. To me it sounds like the name of a male pornographic actor. This in no way negates the whole sunglasses bit though 

To me it sounds like a name for an Australian outlaw. Snap Lance the bushranger. I dunno what would be a Westerosi equivalent.

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The quote is:

The eldest, Prince Baelor, won the name Breakspear at the age of seventeen, following his famous victory at Princess Daenerys’s wedding tourney; he defeated Daemon Blackfyre in the final tilt.

not clear whos lance/s was/were broken (hm, no porn innuendo here)

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Nope that is where he got his name, spear and lance are often synonymous,  lancia spezzata "broken lance" or "broken spear".

Well, in the case of the name "lanze spezzate" I feel it doesn't refer to the broken weapons but to the "broken" formations these individually recruited mercenary were from.
One name for the most basic cavalry squad unit in a lot of places and times in european middle age was called the "lance".
They were mounted fighters with experience and without a captain to mediate their allegiance to their payer, be it MIlan's comune or other employer, which organized them in new squads ("lanze") after recruitment, as opposed to contracting whole mercenary formations with their own (often ambitious) commander.

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Well, in the case of the name "lanze spezzate" I feel it doesn't refer to the broken weapons but to the "broken" formations these individually recruited mercenary were from.One name for the most basic cavalry squad unit in a lot of places and times in european middle age was called the "lance".
They were mounted fighters with experience and without a captain to mediate their allegiance to their payer, be it MIlan's comune or other employer, which organized them in new squads ("lanze") after recruitment, as opposed to contracting whole mercenary formations with their own (often ambitious) commander.

Does it matter it's a nick name point being spear or lance are interchangeable, not giving the origin here.

I had no idea that Australian outlaws took their naming cues from gay porn. 

Well lets take a look at Mad Max, We have the People Eater, Rictus Erectus, The Organic Mechanic, Slit (yes that's a name), Max Rockatansky, The Humungus, The Master, The Blaster, Aunty Entity.

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