Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull

Gertrude Pierrepont, Countess of Kingston-upon-Hull (29 September 1580 – 1649),

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 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), who married Elizabeth Harries and had children Gervas Pierrepont (named as responsible for her monument), who died unmarried 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...."