Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull


Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull, 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.
Henry Talbot was a younger son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Gertrude was his elder daughter and co-heir. She married Pierrepont at Kinwalton Church, on 8 January 1601, and he inherited his father's earldom in 1615.
Their children included:
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. 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...."