Family / house

Gascoyne-Cecil; Cecil of Salisbury; Gascoyne of Childwall Hall; Hatfield; Cranborne

Family / cadet branch

Descendants of James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil and Frances Mary Gascoyne

Armiger / bearer

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and the first-generation Salisbury cadet network

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Dictionary of National Biography; Salisbury family and Hatfield records

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

1830

Historical period

Victorian Britain

Blazon

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, 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, for Cecil; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot, for Gascoyne.

Plain-English description

The children and later descendants of the 1821 marriage inherited the quartered Salisbury-Gascoyne identity. The arms became the parent design for later Salisbury cadet branches, including Rockley, Chelwood and other younger-son lines.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or

Charges / ordinaries

Six escutcheons charged with lions rampant; Crescent Gules; Conger's head Or; Ermine spot

Crest

The Salisbury arrow-and-morion crest and the Gascoyne conger's-head crest.

Motto

SERO SED SERIO

Exterior ornaments

Later holders' achievements vary with rank. The principal marquessate achievement uses lions Ermine as supporters; cadet baronies may add rank coronets, differencing marks or distinct supporters.

Difference / variant

This is a genealogical continuation of the 1821 design, not a new grant. It is included to establish the parentage of later documented Salisbury cadet branches.

Source reference

Dictionary of National Biography, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury

Mother

Frances Mary Gascoyne

Spouse(s)

Georgina Alderson, married 1857

Children / next generation

James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury; Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood; Lord William Cecil; Lord Edward Cecil; Lord Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood; Lord Eustace Cecil; Lady Gwendolen Gascoyne-Cecil; Lady Maud Gascoyne-Cecil, Countess of Selborne; Lady Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil; Other issue recorded in Salisbury family sources

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources