julian glover played the head maester in game of thrones.
julian glover played the head maester in game of thrones.
who plays the head maester in game of thrones?
julian glover
bullet::::- grand maester pycelle (seasons 1–6) portrayed by julian glover, is a grand maester of the seven kingdoms, is an advisor and member of the small council. he had served the previous three kings as grand maester before robert's reign. pycelle is later revealed to be a spy for the lannisters, cersei specifically, and he who informed her of jon arryn's investigation of her affair with jaime. to prevent himself from being undermined, tyrion has pycelle arrested and sent to the dungeons, but cersei frees and tywin lannister reinstates him. a deleted scene from season 3 shows that tywin is not fooled by pycelle's frail old man guise. in season 4, pycelle makes false accusations at tyrion's trial, claiming that tyrion had stolen poisons from his office to murder joffrey. later on, when he proves unable to save the poisoned gregor clegane and openly doubts qyburn's abilities, cersei orders him to leave, giving his position to qyburn. he later attends tywin's funeral and proposes himself as the next hand of the king, cersei ignores him and appoints qyburn as the new master of whispers. when cersei is incarcerated by the faith militant, pycelle summons uncle kevan from casterly rock and gives him the position of hand of the king. he is present at cersei's return to the red keep after her walk of atonement. he continues to be dismissive towards both cersei and jaime, acknowledging that cersei no longer holds any power. on the day of cersei and loras's trial, however, he is lured to qyburn's laboratory by the little birds and stabbed to death, orchestrated by cersei and qyburn.
list of game of thrones characters
maesters are considered equivalent of cardinals, with the grand maester equivalent to the pope.









































bullet::::- grand maester mika









































bullet::::- maester seymour guado









































bullet::::- maester wen kinoc









































bullet::::- maester kelk ronso









































bullet::::- maester jyscal guado (predecessor and father to maester seymour guado)









































bullet::::- summoners









































summoners are a cross between miko and priests; they fall into the ranks of "summoner" and "high summoner" (the title of high summoner is posthumously bestowed upon a summoner when they defeat sin).









































bullet::::- high summoner yunalesca (first high summoner)









































bullet::::- high summoner gandof









































bullet::::- high summoner ohalland









































bullet::::- high summoner yocun









































bullet::::- high summoner braska
list of fictional clergy and religious figures