Gervase
Pierrepont
Born in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of George Pierrepont
and Winifred (Thwaites) Clifton
Brother of
Annora (Pierrepont) Rossell [half], Edmund Pierrepont, Henry Pierrepont, Isabel (Pierrepont) Harpur, Jane (Pierrepont) Hutchinson, Anne (Pierrepont) Beaumont, William Pierrepont and George Clifton [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died [date unknown]
in Nottinghamshire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 13 May 2011
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Biography
Died without issue.
Feb 12, 1584 he was ordered to be "put on the rack" (tortured), for being in possession of Catholic papers.
Imprisoned multiple times.
Sources
- Ninth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part II. Appendix & Index, Vol. 9, Historical Manuscripts Commission (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1884) Page 375: "Birth of Gervase their second son, 15 Nov. 1550."
- Foster, Joseph. The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 (The Hansard Publishing Union, Ltd., London, 1889) Page 47: "1566. Jer. Pierrepoint"
- Catholic Record Society, Publications of the Catholic Record Society. (Catholic Record Society, London, 1919) Vol. 21: The Ven. Philip Howard Earl of Arundel 1557-1595
- Page 70: "Gervaise (Jarvis, Jervais) Pierrepoint, or Perpoint, is reported in November, 1586, to be "A verie obstinate recusant, and a maintainer of all Seminarie priests and papists." He had been in the Marshalsea before he was committed to the Tower, and 15 June, 1586, he was recommitted to the Counter (maybe "Wood Street Counter"). In 1588 he was sent to Wisbech (ecclesiastical prison). C.R.S., ii,231,259,269,279. He was uncle to the first Earl of Kingston. Some genealogical details in Calendar Domestic, 1584, pp. 151,152."
- Page 71: "When Perpoynt was lodged near Crayton in Marten Tower, ..."
- Page 75: only mentioned
- Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 22 & Page 131: He died without issue.
- Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) Page 87
- Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (G. Burbage, 1790) Vol. 1, Page 176
- Godfrey, John Thomas. Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham (Phillimore, 1907) Page 249: He was the second son of George and Winifred.
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