England
Cecil of Salisbury — James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Garter achievement
- Family / house
- Cecil
- Family / cadet branch
- Salisbury line of Cecil, Hatfield House
- Armiger / bearer
- James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English heraldic and peerage tradition; Order of the Garter and Salisbury genealogy
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1668
- Until / superseded
- 1683
- Historical period
- Restoration period
- Grant / record reference
- Succeeded his grandfather William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, on 3 December 1668; appointed Knight of the Garter on 31 August 1680.
- Blazon
- Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, a crescent Gules for difference.
- Plain-English description
- The Salisbury Cecil shield: ten silver-and-blue bars carrying six black shields, each with a silver rampant lion, with a red crescent marking the junior Salisbury branch.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- six escutcheons; six lions rampant; crescent
- Crest
- Six arrows in saltire Or, barbed and flighted Argent, bound together with a belt Gules and surmounted by a morion proper.
- Motto
- SERO SED SERIO
- Exterior ornaments
- Garter encirclement and earl's coronet in the full achievement.
- Difference / variant
- Hereditary Salisbury-line arms, here borne by the first Salisbury successor in the direct line of Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne. The Garter achievement is a distinct display form rather than a new shield design.
- Source reference
- History of Parliament, James Cecil (1646–83)
- Linked historical person
- James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
- Mother
- Lady Diana Maxwell, daughter and coheir of James Maxwell, Earl of Dirleton
- Spouse(s)
- Lady Margaret Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland
- Children / next generation
- James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury; Robert Cecil, Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett; Lady Margaret Cecil, later Countess of Ranelagh
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The 3rd Earl's importance is genealogical: his eldest son continued the title, while his younger son Robert Cecil founded a collateral armigerous branch that should be researched separately.