England; Surrey, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and the English peerage
Cecil–Fiennes of Wimbledon — Frances Cecil's memorial matrimonial achievement
- Family / house
- Cecil of Wimbledon and Putney; Cecil of Exeter; Cecil of Burghley; Fiennes of Broughton and Saye and Sele; Sprigge
- Family / cadet branch
- Wimbledon female-line branch into Fiennes of Saye and Sele
- Armiger / bearer
- Frances Cecil and James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- St Mary's Church, Wimbledon; Cecil family genealogy; peerage sources
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1620
- Until / superseded
- 1684
- Historical period
- Early Stuart and Interregnum England
- Blazon
- Matrimonial achievement recorded in the Cecil Chapel: Cecil of Wimbledon, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, paired with the arms of Fiennes of Saye and Sele. The accessible photograph does not permit a sufficiently secure formal blazon of the complete Fiennes half.
- Plain-English description
- A memorial display linking Frances's inherited Wimbledon Cecil arms with the arms of her husband, James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- Six escutcheons; Six lions rampant
- Exterior ornaments
- The surviving chapel window and inscription identify James Fiennes as son and heir of the Viscount Saye and Sele and Frances Cecil as his wife.
- Difference / variant
- A direct memorial and stained-glass rendering of the Wimbledon female-line connection to Fiennes. This is distinct from a reconstructed genealogical impalement because the chapel preserves a material heraldic representation.
- Source reference
- St Mary's Wimbledon, Church History, Cecil Chapel photographs and text
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon
- Mother
- Theodosia Noel
- Spouse(s)
- James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele; Joshua Sprigge
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
Because the photograph is not sufficiently legible for a complete Fiennes blazon, preserve the record as a documented matrimonial achievement with the Cecil side normalized and the Fiennes side provisional.