Family / house

Cecil

Family / cadet branch

Salisbury line immediately preceding the Marquessate

Armiger / bearer

James Cecil, 6th 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

1728

Until / superseded

1780

Historical period

Georgian period

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

A silver-and-blue barry field overlaid by six black escutcheons bearing silver lions rampant, with a red crescent identifying the Salisbury branch.

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; the complete Salisbury achievement uses two ermine lions as supporters.

Difference / variant

Same inherited Salisbury cadet arms; the armiger is important because he transmitted the line directly to the 7th Earl and first Marquess.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Salisbury, Earl of, 1605

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury

Mother

Lady Anne Tufton

Spouse(s)

Elizabeth Keet, daughter of Edward Keet of Canterbury

Children / next generation

James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, later 1st Marquess of Salisbury; Lady Anne Cecil; Lady Bennet Cecil

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources