Hugh Beringar

Hugh Beringar was a secondary protagonist from The Cadfael Chronicles series of novels and television series based on the novels.

After King Stephen retook Shrewsbury Castle Beringar swore fealty to Stephen. Stephen was skeptical at first since Beringar had been betrothed to Godith Adeney, daughter of the rebel leader Fulke Adeney. Stephen asked him to bring the daughter to him. Beringar helped the young woman escape into Wales, and claimed to the King that despite his best efforts she escaped. After defeating Adam Courcelle in trial by combat for murdering Giles Siward Beringar was named deputy sheriff of Shropshire. During this time Beringar met the Benedictine monk Cadfael and soon the two men were friends.

Over the next few years the two men became close friends and worked closely together to solve crimes that took place in the area around Shrewsbury Abbey. Cadfael trusted Beringar so much that he became one of the few to learn that Cadfael had a son named Olivier de Bretagne. As another sign of the trust between the two men Cadfael told Beringar that when he was sent to retrieve the bones of Saint Winifred he left her bones in Wales, and instead put the body of a monk who had died on their mission in the reliquary instead.

Trivia

 * In the Cadfael television series the role of Hugh Beringar was played by three different men. Sean Pertwee portrayed him in the first series, Eoin McCarthy on the second and third series, and Anthony Green on the fourth series.