Gillipig wrote:betiko wrote:yes this theory was already mentioned here, and also that it's just a theory among readers. I am not too sure though. I m pretty sure that he has some targaryen blood though.
I also overheard once that jon snow and thoros of myr are milk brothers and were raised together in their first years by thoros's mother. But I don't know, I think it would be too easy to end up with jon on the throne, seems too predictable. (but then, martin is trying so hard to be unpredictable that the predictable becomes unpredictable)
It is true that with ned stark having such a sense of honour, it seems pretty strange to imagine him cheating on catlyn mostly in his first years of marriage. Was he trying to protect his sister's virtue and memory after her death? did rhaegar rape his sister? Did he know how important was jon's lineage, and that if it was revealed people would ve tried to murder him? Could he not trust catlyn and tell her the truth instead of putting himself in such an embarassing situation? robert baratheon and john aryn probably knew the truth... so he would trust them more than his loving wife, and would put himself in the "danger zone"? Not to mention that jon was hated by cathlyn all his childhood because of that..
Robert Baratheon certainly didn't know. That would be the first person he'd want to keep that knowledge away from.
I kind of remember robert in season 1 telling something to ned about a girl he met during the war that was jon s mother...