Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull

{{Short description|English noblewoman (1580–1649)}}

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Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull (29 September 1580{{cite book|author=R. Burnham Moffat|title=Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman Times to 1913|url=https://archive.org/details/pierrepontgenea00moffgoog|year=1913|publisher=Priv. print. L. Middleditch Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/pierrepontgenea00moffgoog/page/n29 23]}} – 1649), born Gertrude Talbot, was an English noblewoman and peeress, the wife of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, and the daughter of the Honourable Henry Talbot, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Reyner.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.

Henry Talbot was a younger son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Gertrude was his elder daughter and co-heir.{{cite book|author=Hendrik Dijkgraaf|title=The Library of a Jesuit Community at Holbeck, Nottinghamshire (1679)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LllEAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies|isbn=978-0-9518811-7-0|page=326}} She married Pierrepont at Kinwalton Church, on 8 January 1601,{{cite book|author=John Thomas Godfrey|title=Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RAAVAAAAQAAJ|year=1907|publisher=Phillimore|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RAAVAAAAQAAJ/page/n272 245]}} and he was created a Viscount in 1627, and an Earl in 1628.

Their children included:

• Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (1606–1680), who married, first, Cecilia Bayning, by whom he had children, and secondly, Lady Catherine Stanley
• Francis Pierrepont (died 1658 or 1659), who married Elizabeth Bray and had children
• William Pierrepont (1607/8–1679),{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Kingston-upon-Hull, Earls and Dukes of|volume=15|page=821}} who married Elizabeth Harries and had children
• Gervas Pierrepont (named as responsible for her monument), who died unmarried
• Lady Elizabeth Pierrepont, who died unmarried
• Lady Frances Pierrepont (born 1615), who married Philip Rolleston and had children
• George Pierrepont, who married and had children
• Mary, who died in infancy

The Earl of Kingston was killed by friendly fire in 1643, while fighting for King Charles I of England in the English Civil War.{{cite book|author=Arthur Collins|title=The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of England, Now Existing, Etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbqneik2YskC&pg=PA278|year=1735|publisher=R. Gosling&T. Wotton; W. Innys&R. Manby|pages=278–279}} The couple's eldest son, Henry, was created a Marquess in 1645. The Countess died, aged 68, 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...."