Ireland and Great Britain
Perceval–Lovel of Egmont — John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
- Family / house
- Perceval; Perceval of Burton; Earls of Egmont; Lovel of Tichmarsh
- Family / cadet branch
- Perceval of Burton and Egmont, with the Lovel quartering inherited through the Perceval line
- Armiger / bearer
- John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Peerage armorial tradition recorded in Burke's Peerage and Cracroft's Peerage; comparative county armorial record in Surrey Coats of Arms
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1733
- Until / superseded
- 4 December 1770
- Historical period
- Georgian period
- Blazon
- Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent, on a chief indented Gules three crosses patée of the field; 2nd and 3rd, Barry nebuly of six Or and Gules.
- Plain-English description
- The shield is quartered: the first and fourth quarters are silver with a red indented chief bearing three silver cross patées, for Perceval; the second and third are six horizontal wavy bars of gold and red, for Lovel.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Gules; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- three crosses patée; indented chief; nebuly or wavy bars
- Crest
- A thistle erect leaved Proper.
- Motto
- SUB CRUCE CANDIDA
- Exterior ornaments
- The full Egmont achievement has an antelope Argent and a stag Sable as supporters, both ducally collared and chained Or and each holding a thistle Proper. The shield may be displayed beneath an earl's coronet and, after 1762, in association with the British barony of Lovel and Holland.
- Difference / variant
- This is the principal inherited Perceval–Lovel achievement used by the Earls of Egmont. The Lovel quarters are not a new cadet brisure but a hereditary quartering associated with the senior Perceval peerage line.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Egmont, Earl of
- Linked historical person
- John II Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont
- Mother
- Catherine Parker, daughter and coheir of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet
- Spouse(s)
- Lady Catherine Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury; Catherine Compton, later Baroness Arden of Lohort Castle
- Children / next generation
- John James Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont; Cecil Parker Perceval; Philip Tufton Perceval; Edward Perceval; Lady Catherine Perceval, later wife of Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough; Margaret Perceval; Frederick Augustus Perceval; Charles George Perceval, later 1st Baron Arden of Arden; Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister; Henry Perceval; Mary Perceval; Frances Perceval, later Baroness Redesdale; Margaret Perceval, later wife of Thomas Walpole
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The shield is the armorial core relevant to Catherine Cecil's marriage. The full achievement should not be confused with a personal grant made specifically to the couple; it is the inherited peerage achievement of the Perceval Earls of Egmont.