Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull (29 September 1580[1] – 1649),[2] 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.[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 was created a Viscount in 1627, and an Earl in 1628.
The Earl of Kingston 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 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...."[2]
^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.