England
Cavendish of Devonshire — William Cavendish, 2nd Earl, parent armorial context
- Family / house
- Cavendish; Cavendish of Chatsworth; Devonshire
- Family / cadet branch
- Senior Devonshire line of Cavendish of Chatsworth
- Armiger / bearer
- William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English heraldic usage; British Armorial Bindings and Devonshire family records
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1590
- Until / superseded
- 20 June 1628
- Historical period
- Late Elizabethan and early Stuart period
- Grant / record reference
- Earldom of Devonshire recreated for the Cavendish family in 1618
- Blazon
- Sable, three bucks' heads cabossed Argent. In a fuller recorded achievement, the Cavendish arms were quartered with Smith, Clopton, Scudamore, Hardwick and Keighley.
- Plain-English description
- A black shield with three silver buck heads shown frontally. William's fuller armorial achievement also displayed inherited quarterings representing allied and ancestral families, including Smith, Clopton, Scudamore, Hardwick and Keighley.
- Tinctures
- Sable; Argent
- Charges / ordinaries
- Three bucks' heads cabossed
- Crest
- A serpent nowed Proper, in later Devonshire and Newcastle-related achievements
- Motto
- CAVENDO TUTUS
- Difference / variant
- Parent or senior-line Cavendish design from which a younger son could bear the same arms with an appropriate cadency mark. The detailed quartered achievement recorded for William differs from the Ogle-quartering form associated with the Welbeck/Newcastle branch.
- Source reference
- British Armorial Bindings, William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire, Stamp 1.
- Linked historical person
- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire
- Mother
- Anne Keighley
- Spouse(s)
- Christian Bruce, Countess of Devonshire
- Children / next generation
- Anne Cavendish, later Countess of Warwick; William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire; Charles Cavendish; Henry Cavendish
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This parent-context record should not be conflated with the Ogle-quartering arms of the Newcastle branch. William Cavendish, 2nd Earl's fuller achievement as recorded by British Armorial Bindings contains several inherited quarterings and does not list Ogle.