Beregond son of Baranor was a man of the Guard of the Citadel of Minas Tirith. On Pippin's first morning in the city, newly sworn to Denethor's service, Beregond was given the task of teaching him the passwords and the ways of the Guard. The two became friends, and through Beregond, and his young son Bergil, Pippin came to know the city and its people.1
He loved Faramir, under whom he had served. When Denethor, in despair, ordered his wounded son burned with him in the Hallows, Pippin ran to find Gandalf and Beregond left his post to stop it. At the door of the House of the Stewards he fought Denethor's servants, killed men of the city to do it, and held them off until Gandalf came. Faramir was saved.2
He marched to the Black Gate, where Pippin, fighting beside him, killed a hill-troll that had struck him down.3
Leaving his post and shedding blood in the Hallows were crimes for which the old law gave death. King Elessar pardoned him for the sake of his valour and of what he had saved, but sent him out of the city, making him captain of Faramir's guard, the White Company, in Ithilien.4
Sources
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- Published story The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as Tolkien published them.
- Published story The Return of the King, Book V, ch. 1, “Minas Tirith”
- Published story The Return of the King, Book V, ch. 7, “The Pyre of Denethor”
- Published story The Return of the King, Book V, ch. 10, “The Black Gate Opens”
- Published story The Return of the King, Book VI, ch. 5, “The Steward and the King”