Poxy Jeyne Poore

Poxy Jeyne Poore was one of the most feared captains among the Poor Fellows of the Faith Militant who continued fighting King Maegor after the order was outlawed. Based in the woods between King’s Landing and Storm’s End, she remained beyond the king’s reach through a campaign of pursuit and was the intended subject of a mass rescue attempt. The account records that the attempt failed, but does not state what became of Jeyne herself afterward.

Leadership and the outlaw resistance

After defeat had scattered the Faith Militant, its adherents did not disappear. Thousands of Poor Fellows haunted roads and wild places across the Reach, the Trident, and the Vale, attacking travelers and settlements and killing the king’s loyalists. Their leaders included Ragged Silas, Septon Moon, and Dennis the Lame; Jeyne was identified as one of their most vicious captains. Her followers made the woods between King’s Landing and Storm’s End almost impassable to honest travelers, giving the dispersed resistance a local force that could threaten movement and security even when it could no longer assemble to confront Maegor in open battle.

The crown treated the Poor Fellows as outlaws rather than as an army. Maegor’s summons to doubtful lords demanded homage and a child as a hostage, while membership in the outlawed orders was made punishable by death. In this climate, Jeyne’s forest stronghold represented a continuing challenge to royal authority: a pocket of resistance that the king could pursue but had not yet subdued.

Pursuit and betrayal

Late in 45 AC, Maegor took the field against the remaining Faith Militant. His forces hunted Poor Fellows sheltering in the great wood south of the Blackwater. Many captives were sent to the Wall, while those who refused the black were hanged. Jeyne nevertheless continued to evade the king until three of her own followers betrayed her. They received pardons and knighthoods in return, turning royal clemency into a reward for the betrayal that brought the captain within reach of the crown.

Three septons traveling with Maegor declared Jeyne a witch, and the king ordered her burned alive in a field beside the Wendwater. The account presents this as an accusation made by the septons and an execution ordered by Maegor, not as proof of any supernatural power. The label helped frame the intended punishment, while the location and appointed day made her execution a public confrontation between the crown and the remnants of the outlaw resistance.

The failed rescue

On the appointed day, three hundred of Jeyne’s followers—Poor Fellows and peasants—emerged from the woods to rescue her. Maegor had anticipated an attempt and positioned his men to meet it. The rescuers were surrounded and slaughtered; Jeyne’s planned rescue therefore became a crushing defeat for those who came to her aid rather than a reversal of the king’s campaign.

Among the last to die was Ser Horys Hill, a bastard hedge knight who had escaped the carnage at the Great Fork three years earlier. His presence connected the failed rescue to the earlier defeats of the Faith Militant, but his death did not establish Jeyne’s own fate: the account describes the thwarted rescue and the attackers’ deaths without confirming what happened to her after the order to execute her.

Significance in the account

Jeyne’s story shows how resistance to Maegor persisted beyond decisive battlefield defeats. Her followers could still make roads dangerous, shelter in the woods, and draw peasants into a rescue effort, even as royal forces hunted them down and rewarded informers. The episode also sets the king’s expectation of rebellion against its cost: Maegor was prepared for the rescue, and three hundred people died in the failed attempt. Jeyne remains a sharply drawn figure of the resistance, but the surviving account leaves her final outcome unresolved.