Ser Humfrey Beesbury
A bold young knight of Honeyholt, three-and-twenty, with the black-and-yellow stripes of his house on his shield and no patience for injustice.
A soul born at Honeyholt, sworn to House Beesbury.
The fuller tale
Season One
In A Trial of Seven ÔÇö Young, bold, and unwilling to let injustice stand. Ser Humfrey Hardyng, broken leg and all, demands a place against the prince who killed his horse. Ser Humfrey Beesbury and Ser Robyn Rhysling stand with him. Ser Humfrey Beesbury dies in the press; Ser Humfrey Hardyng takes wounds no broken-legged man should bear.
Where they stand. Honeyholt and Ashford Meadow.
How it ends for them
On the screen. Slain in the trial of seven (S1┬ÀE5)
The bold young knight of Honeyholt stood with a hedge knight in the trial of seven at Ashford Meadow, against three princes of the blood and the white cloaks of the Kingsguard. He died in the press of the melee ÔÇö one of the two men the gods took to prove Dunk's innocence.
On the page. Slain in the trial of seven (THK, ch. 9)
The young knight of the black-and-yellow stripes made one of Dunk's seven at Ashford, and was slain in the trial ÔÇö his life the first part of the price the gods set on a hedge knight's innocence.
In the crush of the trial of seven, Ser Humfrey Beesbury is struck down and killed, one of the meleeÔÇÖs earliest casualties and one of the two deaths ÔÇö his own and Ser Humfrey HardyngÔÇÖs ÔÇö that the gods take from among DunkÔÇÖs champions even as the trialÔÇÖs ultimate verdict falls in the hedge knightÔÇÖs favor. His willingness to fight for a strangerÔÇÖs cause, with nothing to gain from it personally, becomes part of the price the trialÔÇÖs outcome is measured against.
Their chapters, book by book
The Hedge Knight 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
As with several of the tourneyÔÇÖs champions, casting details for Ser Humfrey BeesburyÔÇÖs role in the show have not been widely publicized, and the characterÔÇÖs function in the first season ÔÇö a young knight lending his sword to the trial on conviction alone ÔÇö mirrors the novellaÔÇÖs own brief but pointed treatment of him.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.