England
Fiennes of Broughton — William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
- Family / house
- Fiennes; Fiennes of Broughton; Saye and Sele; Kingsmill; Temple
- Family / cadet branch
- Senior Broughton line; seventeenth-century viscountcy
- Armiger / bearer
- William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English Crown; 1624 patent; History of Parliament
- Record basis
- grant
- Issued / first recorded
- 1624
- Until / superseded
- 1662
- Historical period
- early Stuart and Civil War England
- Grant / record reference
- Letters patent creating the Viscountcy of Saye and Sele, 7 July 1624
- Blazon
- Azure, three lions rampant Or.
- Plain-English description
- A blue shield bearing three upright gold lions.
- Tinctures
- Azure; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- Three lions rampant
- Motto
- Fortem Posce Animum
- Exterior ornaments
- As a viscount, the achievement could be displayed beneath a viscount's coronet; later family achievements added quarterings and a Fiennes wolf crest.
- Difference / variant
- The viscount retained the Fiennes shield. The later family achievement associated with the barony and Broughton incorporated additional quarterings, especially Saye, Wykeham and eventually Twisleton and Eardley.
- Source reference
- History of Parliament biography
- Linked historical person
- William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Richard Fiennes, 7th and 1st Baron Saye and Sele
- Mother
- Constance Kingsmill
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth Temple
- Children / next generation
- James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele; Nathaniel Fiennes; John Fiennes; Richard Fiennes