James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele, 9th Baron Saye and Sele, Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, Member of Parliament for Banbury and Oxfordshire, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1668 to 1674., Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1668, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele from 1662., James Fiennes succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele in April 1662 and took his seat in the House of Lords in March 1663. Frances was styled Viscountess Saye and Sele by marriage and later married the Reverend Joshua Sprigge in 1675., MP for Banbury and Oxfordshire, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1668 until his death.
Dates: c.1603–15 March 1674
Biography
James Fiennes succeeded his father as second Viscount. He married Frances Cecil, daughter of Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, creating a documented heraldic and genealogical connection between the Broughton Fiennes line and the Cecil family already represented in the registry.
Notes / Sources
Cracroft's Peerage, Viscount Saye and Sele — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/saye1624.htm
History of Parliament biography of William Fiennes — https://dev.historyofparliamentonline.org/lord-biography/fiennes-william-c-1583-1662
James Fiennes biography — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fiennes,_2nd_Viscount_Saye_and_Sele
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Fiennes of Broughton and Saye and Sele
Father: William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
Mother: Elizabeth Temple
Spouse(s): Frances Cecil
Children / next generation: Elizabeth Fiennes; Frances Fiennes
Armorial Registry
Cecil–Fiennes of Wimbledon — Frances Cecil and James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele, documented marriage window
Branch: Cecil of Wimbledon and Putney transmitted by marriage into Fiennes of Broughton and Saye and Sele
Issued / recorded: 1630
Fiennes of Broughton and Saye and Sele — James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele
Branch: Senior male line of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, seated at Broughton Castle
Issued / recorded: 1630
Fiennes of Saye and Sele — James Fiennes's inherited Fiennes coat in the 2nd Viscount's Broughton succession
Branch: Broughton Castle and the 1603 baronial / 1624 viscountial succession
Issued / recorded: 1662
Fiennes of Broughton — James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele
Branch: Senior Broughton and viscountcy line
Issued / recorded: c.1603
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