Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (6 August 1584 – 25 July 1643) was an English nobleman who joined the Royalist side in the English Civil War after some delay and became lieutenant-general of the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Norfolk. He was killed in a friendly fire incident after being captured by Parliamentary forces.
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-HullFrom Bailey's Annals of Nottinghamshire, 1853
Whilst defending Gainsborough he was taken prisoner, and was killed on 25 July 1643, aged 58, while being conveyed to Hull by boat along the River Trent. Royalist forces fired at his captors from the river bank, accidentally killing the Earl whose body was cut in two by a cannonball.[3]
Arms of Pierrepont: Argent semée of cinquefoils gules, a lion rampant sable
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^Grace Pierrepont, ThePeerage.com, Retrieved 27 December 2008
^ abcdOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kingston-upon-Hull, Earls and Dukes of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 821.
^ abOxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 264. ISBN0-19-861394-6.
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