Francis Pierrepont (bef. 1612 - 1658)

Born before 8 Sep 1612 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 30 Jan 1658 after age 45 in Nottinghamshire, England

Biography

In April 1640, Pierrepont was elected Member of Parliament for East Retford in the Short Parliament. In the Civil War, Pierrepont raised a regiment for the parliamentary army of which he became colonel.[3] In 1645 he was elected MP for Nottingham in the Long Parliament.

Baptism

8 Sep 1612 Mansfield. Godfrey (1907)

Marriage

1635 to Elizabeth Bray at Snenton, daughter of Thomas Bray, of Eyam, Derbyshire, England.

Burial

30 Jan 1657/8 St. Mary's, Nottingham. His remains were afterward removed to Holme Pierrepont, and placed in the family vault. Godfrey (1901)

Sources

• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 25
• Wikipedia:Francis_Pierrepont_(Parliamentarian)
• Cracroft Peerage
• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
• Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson (London, 1908) Page 131, Page 136. He is called "Colonel Pierrepont". See Index.
• Records of the Borough of Nottingham (London, 1900) Vol. 5, Page 210: note 3, "Colonell Pierrepont", Page 212, Page 216.

Page 247: "Colonell Pierrepon"

Page 258: "Collonell Pierrepoint"

Page 260: "Colonell Pierepont"

Page 273: "Collonell Peirpoynte"

Page 276: "Coronall Parpounte"

Page 294: "Collonell Pierepont"

• Guilford, Everard. Memorials of Old Nottinghamshire (George Allen & Co., London, 1912) Page 171, Page 181
• Harleian Society:Visitation Series. The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614., The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1871) Vol. 4, Page 56
• Brown, Cornelius. The Annals of Newark-Upon-Trent (H. Sotheran & Co., London, 1879) Page 114, Page 120
• Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton (Savill and Edwards, London, 1852-3) Vol. 2, Page 102
• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (London, 1677) Page 87: "Franciscus ob. Jan. 30, 1657" (G. Burbage, 1790) Vol. 3, Page 42
• Standish, John. Transactions of the Thoroton Society (Cooke & Vowles, 1927) Vol. 31, Page ?

• "The house was built by the Hon. Francis Pierrepont, who was the third son of the Earl of Kingston, and apparently he attempted to hold the scales between his two brothers, for Mrs. Hutchinson reports of him that he was coldly on the side of Parliament.

• Godfrey, John Thomas, Notes on The Parish Registers of St. Mary's, Nottingham, 1566 to 1812 (Henry B. Saxton, Nottingham, 1901) Page 33: See footnote #97.

• Burial: "The Hon^ble Francis Pierrepont Esq. 30 Jan 1657"

• Godfrey, John Thomas. Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham (Phillimore, 1907)

• Page 246: The Mansfield Register records that on September 8th, 1612, "Francis the sonne of Mr. Robert Pierrepont, Esquier, was baptized."

• Musgrave, William. Obituary Prior to 1800, The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1901) Visitation Series. Vol. 48, Page 39.
• Orange, James. History and Antiquities of Nottingham (Hamilton, Adams & Co., Nottingham, 1840) Vol. 2, Page 754.