Family / house

Cecil

Family / cadet branch

Cecil of Burghley, Exeter and Marquesses of Exeter

Armiger / bearer

Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

College of Arms tradition

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

1821

Until / superseded

1867

Historical period

nineteenth century

Blazon

Quarterly of six: 1st and 6th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent; 2nd, per pale Gules and Azure, a lion rampant Argent supporting a tree eradicated Vert; 3rd, Sable, a plate between three towers triple-towered Argent; 4th, Argent, on a bend cotised Gules three cinquefoils Or; 5th, Argent, a chevron between three chess-rooks Ermine.

Plain-English description

The 2nd Marquess of Exeter bore the senior Cecil arms inherited through the Burghley and Exeter line, with the five additional quarters and without the Salisbury cadet crescent.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Vert; Or; Ermine

Charges / ordinaries

six escutcheons; lions rampant; tree eradicated; plate; triple-towered towers; cinquefoils; chevron; chess-rooks

Crest

A garb Or supported by two lions rampant, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure.

Motto

COR UNUM VIA UNA

Exterior ornaments

Marquess's coronet; Garter circlet and supporters in a full Garter achievement.

Difference / variant

Nineteenth-century senior-line continuation of the Burghley/Exeter design.

Source reference

Wikimedia Commons file, Shield of arms of Brownlow Cecil

Linked historical person

Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter

Mother

Sarah Hoggins

Spouse(s)

Isabella Poyntz

Children / next generation

William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources