Family / house

Cecil of Exeter; Cecil of Burghley; Cecil of Wimbledon; Cecil of Putney; Noel; Drury; Zouche

Family / cadet branch

Cecil of Wimbledon and Putney

Armiger / bearer

Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon and Baron Cecil of Putney

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Peerage and military-biographical evidence; English heraldic jurisdiction

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

1571

Until / superseded

1638

Historical period

Jacobean and early Caroline period

Grant / record reference

Letters patent creating Baron Cecil of Putney and Viscount Wimbledon, 9 November 1625

Blazon

Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent.

Plain-English description

The undifferenced Cecil coat: ten silver and blue horizontal bars with six black shields, each bearing a silver rampant lion.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable

Charges / ordinaries

Six escutcheons Sable; Six lions rampant Argent

Difference / variant

Edward's territorial titles supplied the Wimbledon and Putney branch identity, but no separate shield difference has been securely located. His peerage elevation created a title, not a demonstrably new coat.

Source reference

The Peerage, Edward Cecil

Linked historical person

Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter

Mother

Dorothy Neville

Spouse(s)

Theodosia Noel, daughter of Sir Andrew Noel; Diana Drury, daughter of Sir William Drury; Sophia Zouche, daughter of Sir Edward Zouche

Children / next generation

Elizabeth Cecil, later Baroness Willoughby of Parham; Albinia Cecil, later wife of Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby; Francis Cecil; Anne Cecil; An infant or posthumous son by Sophia Zouche is reported as Algernon Cecil, who died young

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources