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.
[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.
Their children included: 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]