Family / house

Cecil

Family / cadet branch

Salisbury line, infant succession from the 4th Earl

Armiger / bearer

James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

English heraldic usage as recorded in county and peerage sources

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1694

Until / superseded

1728

Historical period

Late Stuart and early Georgian period

Grant / record reference

5th Earl of Salisbury [England, 1605]; 5th Baron Cecil of Essendon; 5th Viscount Cranborne

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

Silver and blue horizontal striping carrying six black shields, each with a silver rampant lion, with a red crescent marking the Salisbury cadet line.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules

Charges / ordinaries

Six escutcheons; Six rampant lions; Crescent

Crest

Six arrows in saltire Or, barbed and flighted Argent, bound together with a belt Gules buckled and garnished Or, over the arrows a morion cap proper.

Motto

SERO SED SERIO

Exterior ornaments

Earl's coronet and, in full achievement, the Salisbury supporters of two ermine lions.

Difference / variant

Same Salisbury cadet design as the 4th Earl; no separate new difference is evidenced.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Salisbury, Earl of, 1605

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury

Mother

Frances Bennett

Spouse(s)

Lady Anne Tufton, daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet

Children / next generation

James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury; Lady Catherine Cecil, later Countess of Egmont; Lady Anne Cecil; Lady Margaret Cecil; Hon. Thomas Cecil; Hon. William Cecil; Hon. Bennet Cecil

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources