House Beesbury
Old lords of Honeyholt on the Honeywine, black and yellow as their hives — a gentle house that sends one very brave young knight to Ashford Meadow.
The fuller tale
Honeyholt sits on the banks of the Honeywine, ruled by a house whose black-and-yellow banner and Beware Our Sting motto sit slightly at odds with its general reputation as one of the gentler families in the Reach — bees, after all, do not sting anyone who leaves the hive alone.
Ser Humfrey Beesbury is the family's one real moment of drama in the tales, riding to Ashford Meadow and standing among the champions who take Dunk's side in the trial of seven — not purely, it turns out, on Dunk's account. He and his good-brother, Ser Humfrey Hardyng, both carried their own grievance against Prince Aerion, one that predates the puppeteer's broken fingers entirely.
That detail complicates the trial's usual telling as a clean referendum on one hedge knight's honor: several of the men who stood for Dunk brought old scores of their own to settle under the same banner, and the honeyholt's black-and-yellow found itself on the field less out of pure principle than out of a family debt Aerion had already earned before Dunk ever struck him.
The page and the screen
The trial of seven is a centerpiece of the aired Hedge Knight season, though Ser Humfrey Beesbury's personal grievance against Aerion — the detail that complicates a purely selfless reading of his participation — is a finer point of the novella that screen adaptations built for pace do not always have room to preserve.