Francis Pierrepont (Roundhead)

Francis Pierrepont (died 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.

Pierrepont House c.1705

Pierrepont was the third son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and his wife Gertrude Talbot, daughter of Henry Talbot.[1]

In April 1640, Pierrepont was elected Member of Parliament for East Retford in the Short Parliament.[2] In the Civil War, Pierrepont raised a regiment of Nottinghamshire Trained Bands in Nottingham for the parliamentary army of which he became Colonel.[3][4] In 1645 he was elected MP for Nottingham in the Long Parliament.[5]

He built Pierrepont House in Nottingham in the mid-17th century.

Pierrepont died in 1659. He had married Elizabeth Bray, daughter of Thomas Bray, of Eyam, Derbyshire, and had issue.[1] His eldest son was Robert, who became an MP for Nottingham. His daughter Frances married William Paget, 6th Baron Paget.

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Cracroft Peerage". Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
  2. ^ Willis 1750, p. 234.
  3. ^ Hutchinson & Hutchinson 1808, p. 117.
  4. ^ Lowe, p. 5.
  5. ^ Willis 1750b, p. 239.

References

  • Hutchinson, Lucy Apsley; Hutchinson, Julius (1808), South African traits, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, p. 117
  • Capt A.E. Lawson Lowe, Historical Record of the Royal Sherwood Foresters; or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, London: Mitchell, 1872.
  • Willis, Browne (1750), "Short Parliament", 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, p. 234
  • Willis, Browne (1750b), "Long Parliament", 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, p. 239
Parliament of England
Parliament suspended since 1629 Member of Parliament for East Retford
1640
With: Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Nottingham
1645–1652
With: Gilbert Millington 		Not represented in Barebones Parliament