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About Sir Henry Pierrepont, MP
Sir Henry Pierrepont (1546 – 19 March 1615) was an English MP who resided at Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.
family
He was the son of Sir George Pierrepont and succeeded him in 1564. His mother, Winnifred née Twaits, remarried Sir Gervase Clifton, and he became the ward of Roger Manners.
He married Frances Cavendish, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Cavendish and Elizabeth Hardwick. The children were:
- Grace Pierrepont[1]
- Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull
- Elizabeth Pierrepont
PIERREPONT, Henry (1546-1616), of Holme Pierrepont, Notts. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
b. 18 Sept. 1546, 1st s. of Sir George Pierrepont† of Holme Pierrepont by his 2nd w. Winifred, da. and h. of Sir William Thwaites of ?Manningtree Essex. educ. Trinity Hall, Camb. 1561; G. Inn 1564. m. Frances, da. of Sir William Cavendish† of Chatsworth, Derbys., 1s., Robert at least 1da., Grace, w. of George Manners. suc. fa. 1564. Kntd. 21 Apr. 1603.
Offices Held
J.p. Notts. from c.1573, temp. rem. c.1587, j.p.q. by 1593, sheriff 1575-6, 1601-2; recorder, Nottingham from 1603.
Biography
Aged 17 when his father died, Pierrepont became a ward of Roger Manners I, esquire of the body to the Queen and uncle of the 5th Earl of Rutland. His mother soon remarried and his wardship was granted to his stepfather, Sir Gervase Clifton† of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, in May 1565. Pierrepont’s estate, lying mostly in Nottinghamshire, with one manor, Scarcliffe, in Derbyshire, was valued at a little under £300 a year.1
The Elizabethan Pierreponts were recusants, Henry’s younger brother Gervase being particularly ‘obstinate’. Henry, though more discreet, fell foul of the government more than once. It was probably he who was arrested in 1567 for attending mass ‘at the ambassador’s.’ In 1581 he was again detained, this time on the more serious charge of entertaining Edmund Campion and other priests over the previous Christmas. When Campion confessed, Pierrepont’s house was searched and he and Gervase were summoned before the Council. They later made a full confession in the Star Chamber and were pardoned. Henry avoided further trouble until November 1592, when Sir Thomas Stanhope and other j.p.s ordered him to relinquish for the second time his office of justice of the peace, on grounds of recusancy. Pierrepont strongly denied the charge in a protest to the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, his brother-in-law and Stanhope’s enemy, and the Earl was probably successful in quashing the order. In return for the Earl’s patronage, and no doubt as an expression of his resentment towards Stanhope, Pierrepont was a prominent supporter of Shrewsbury’s candidate, Sir Charles Cavendish, against the rival Stanhope faction in the county election of 1593. His canvassing for Cavendish was at first misunderstood by Stanhope, who apparently suspected that Pierrepont (who had sat for the county in 1572) intended to stand again himself. He did not, however, enter Parliament again, although his son Robert did, no doubt with Shrewsbury’s backing. Pierrepont’s ties with Shrewsbury were further strengthened in 1601 when his son married the Earl’s niece, Gertrude. Two years later the Earl ranked him with Sir John Byron as ‘the best and principal gentleman’ in the county, and it was his influence which largely explains Pierrepont’s election as recorder of Nottingham in succession to Richard Parkins. Pierrepont died in March 1616, aged 69. He was buried at Holme Pierrepont, where his wife had a monument erected. In his will, dated 8 July 1615, he made bequests totalling £100 to his servants. His wife was appointed sole executrix of the estate, which descended to Robert.2
Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: B.D.
Notes 1. Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 50-1; Wards 9/138/466-9; HMC 9th Rep. pt. 2, p. 375; Nottingham Recs. iv. 426; C142/140/153; CPR, 1563-6, p. 328.
2. Cath. Rec. Soc. Misc. i. 49; ii. 231 et passim; APC, xiii. 170-1, 247-8, 260-1; Coll. of Arms, Talbot mss, transcribed by G. R. Batho, H. f. 463; Lodge, Illus. iii(2), pp. 71, 72; Neale, Commons, 65-6; Add. 12506, f. 189; Thoroton, Notts. ed. Throsby, i. 180; York prob. reg. 34/76; C142/362/171
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pierrepont
Sir Henry Pierrepont (1546 – 19 March 1615) was a gentleman who resided at Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.
Family
He married Frances Cavendish, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Cavendish and Elizabeth Hardwick.
The children were:
Grace Pierrepont[1]
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull
Elizabeth Pierrepont married Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie
[edit] Life
He was elected as Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire in 1572, and then took up a series of local appointments, becoming a Justice of the Peace around 1573, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1575–6, and Recorder of Nottingham in 1603. He was knighted in April 1603.
[edit] Memorial
His memorial is in St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont.
[edit] References
1.^ Grace Pierrepont, ThePeerage.com, accessed 27 December 2008
[edit] Source
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, volume XI.
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"Francis Beaumont’s career is interesting because of the recusancy of his relatives, including Lord Vaux, and his own sympathy with the old religion. In 1584, correspondence sent to Gervaise Pierrepont, brother of Henry Pierrepont and of Anne, Beaumont’s wife, was seized. Included was a note—albeit entirely domestic—from Beaumont himself. Subsequent inquiries revealed a correspondence between him and an undoubted recusant, Mr. Shirley of Staunton Harold."
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Sir Henry Pierrepont, MP's Timeline
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September 18, 1546
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Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
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August 6, 1584
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March 19, 1615
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Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1615
Age 68
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St Edmund Churchyard, Home Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
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