House Beesbury of Honeyholt

Family tradition places the Beesbury line before any reliable record: the story goes that Ellyn Honeysweet, one of the legendary daughters of Garth Greenhand, stood at its origin. As with so many minor Reach houses, the tale belongs to legend rather than chronicle, and the family itself treats it that way.

In the year 42 after the Conquest, Ser Dickon Flowers —known as the Bastard of Beesbury— fought as one of the seven Warrior's Sons who faced King Maegor I Targaryen and his six champions in trial by combat. Being a bastard of the house, tied to Honeyholt by blood rather than name, did not stop him from carrying it into the most remembered confrontation of that reign.

Ser Braxton Beesbury was one of the knights who kept close company with Princess Saera Targaryen, daughter of King Jaehaerys I. The scandal that closeness caused earned him a sentence of mutilation, but Braxton, entitled as a knight to demand trial by combat, fought a duel against Jaehaerys I himself and died in the attempt.

Lord Lyman Beesbury sat on the Small Council as Master of Coin, a post he held through the reigns of Jaehaerys I and Viserys I Targaryen. When the Dance of the Dragons broke out, the civil war that split House Targaryen in two, Lyman was among the first to pay for it with his life, killed almost as soon as the conflict began.

Ser Alan Beesbury, grandson of Lord Lyman, followed the war onto the battlefield and was taken prisoner in the clash known as the Battle of the Honeywine, one more front where the Dance of the Dragons was fought out.

Once the war ended, lords of Houses Beesbury, Costayne and Redwyne escorted the Most Devout to King's Landing to officiate the wedding between young King Aegon III and Queen Jaehaera Targaryen. When Jaehaera died and a new wife had to be found for the king, Lady Samantha Tarly proposed several Reach candidates in a letter, among them ladies of House Beesbury.

At the Ashford Tourney, Ser Humfrey Beesbury broke twelve lances jousting against Ser Humfrey Hardyng, a contest so fierce the smallfolk named it "the Battle of the Humfreys" even though the two knights were brothers-in-law. Beesbury was also one of the seven champions who fought on Ser Duncan the Tall's side in the trial by combat held at that same tourney, and he died in the first charge at the hands of Ser Donnel of Duskendale, a Kingsguard knight.

Among the suitors Prince Doran Martell put forward for his daughter Arianne was a blind Beesbury, one more Reach name Dorne weighed as a possible marriage alliance.