Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull

Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull (29 September 1580[1] – 1649),[2] formerly Gertrude Talbot, was an English noblewoman, the wife of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, and the daughter of Henry Talbot and his wife, the former Elizabeth Reyner.[3]

Henry Talbot was a younger son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Gertrude was his elder daughter and co-heir.[4] She married Pierrepont at Kinwalton Church, on 8 January 1601,[5] and he inherited his father's earldom in 1615.

Their children included:

  • Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (1606–1680), who married, first, Cecilia Bayning, by whom he had children, and second, Lady Catherine Stanley
  • Francis Pierrepont (died 1658 or 1659), who married Elizabeth Bray and had children
  • William Pierrepont (1607/8–1679),[6] who married Elizabeth Harries and had children
  • Gervas Pierrepont (named as responsible for her monument), who died unmarried[2]
  • Elizabeth Pierrepont, who died unmarried[2]
  • Frances Pierrepont (born 1615), who married Philip Rolleston and had children
  • George Pierrepont, who married and had children
  • Mary, who died in infancy[2]

Some of the earl's children may have been illegitimate.

The earl was killed by friendly fire in 1643, while fighting for King Charles I of England in the English Civil War.[2] The couple's eldest son Henry was created a marquess in 1645. The countess died, aged 61, and a memorial was erected by her son at St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont, near the family seat; it describes her as "replete with all the qualities that adorn her sex; and more eminent in them than in the greatness of her birth...."[2]

References
  1. R. Burnham Moffat (1913). Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman Times to 1913. Priv. print. L. Middleditch Company. p. 23.
  2. Arthur Collins (1735). The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of England, Now Existing, Etc. R. Gosling&T. Wotton; W. Innys&R. Manby. pp. 278–279.
  3. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 304.
  4. Hendrik Dijkgraaf (1 January 2003). The Library of a Jesuit Community at Holbeck, Nottinghamshire (1679). Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-9518811-7-0.
  5. John Thomas Godfrey (1907). Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham. Phillimore. p. 245.
  6.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kingston-upon-Hull, Earls and Dukes of". Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 821.
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