England; Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and London
Winchester — William Paulet, 4th Marquess and Cecil-married succession
- Family / house
- Paulet of Basing; Marquesses of Winchester; Cecil of Exeter; Cecil of Burghley; Nevill of Latimer
- Family / cadet branch
- Paulet of Basing; direct Winchester line through the Cecil marriage
- Armiger / bearer
- William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English peerage and heraldic tradition
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1598
- Until / superseded
- 4 February 1629
- Historical period
- late Elizabethan and early Stuart
- Grant / record reference
- Inherited the Marquessate of Winchester on 24 November 1598
- Blazon
- Sable, three swords in pile, points in base Argent, pomels and hilts Or.
- Plain-English description
- The undifferenced Paulet coat: three silver swords, point-down, on black, with gold hilts and pommels.
- Tinctures
- Sable; Argent; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- three swords in pile
- Crest
- Falcon displayed Or, belled of the same and ducally collared Gules.
- Motto
- Aimez Loyaulté.
- Exterior ornaments
- Marquess's coronet and Winchester supporters; a complete personal achievement could be marshalled with the inherited Cecil and Nevill quarterings of his wife Lucy Cecil, but no single definitive personal quartered shield is asserted here.
- Difference / variant
- The paternal Paulet arms remain unchanged. The important armorial development is the marriage to Lucy Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, bringing the Winchester succession into the Cecil–Nevill aristocratic network.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Marquess of Winchester
- Linked historical person
- William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester
- Mother
- Anne or Agnes Howard
- Spouse(s)
- Lucy Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and Dorothy Nevill
- Children / next generation
- William Paulet, Lord St John, died before his father; Thomas Paulet, died before 1621; John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester; Other daughters recorded in peerage genealogies
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
Do not automatically turn the Cecil and Nevill ancestry of Lucy Cecil into paternal Paulet quarterings. The connection is marital unless a period-specific achievement proves otherwise.