England
Cecil of Salisbury
- Family / house
- Cecil
- Family / cadet branch
- Cecil of Burghley; Salisbury branch
- Armiger / bearer
- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- College of Arms tradition; historical armorial and armorial-binding records
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1603
- Until / superseded
- 1612-05-24
- Historical period
- Elizabethan; Jacobean
- Grant / record reference
- Created Baron Cecil in 1603, Viscount Cranborne in 1604 and Earl of Salisbury in 1605.
- Blazon
- Quarterly of six: 1 and 6, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a Lion rampant Argent; 2, a Lion rampant holding a Tree eradicated; 3, a Roundel between three Towers triple-towered; 4, on a Bend cotised three Cinquefoils; 5, a Chevron between three Chess-rooks Ermine. A Crescent is used as a difference in the later Salisbury form.
- Plain-English description
- Robert used the Cecil coat in the first and sixth quarters, combined with five ancestral or collateral quarters, and was later distinguished from the senior Exeter line by a crescent.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or; Ermine
- Charges / ordinaries
- six escutcheons; lions rampant; tree; roundel; three towers; bend cotised; three cinquefoils; chevron; three chess-rooks; crescent
- Crest
- Six arrows in saltire tied with a ribbon or belt and surmounted by a morion cap Proper.
- Motto
- JE NE CHERCHE QUE UNG
- Exterior ornaments
- Earl's coronet; later Salisbury achievements add the Garter and supporters in accordance with rank and individual honours.
- Difference / variant
- Cadet Salisbury branch of the Cecil house, distinguished from the Exeter principal line by a crescent and by a quartered achievement associated with Robert's genealogical inheritance.
- Source reference
- British Armorial Bindings, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- Linked historical person
- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
- Mother
- Mildred Cooke
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
- Children / next generation
- William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury; Frances Cecil
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The exact list and naming of the five non-Cecil quarters varies among historical and modern catalogues. The crescent difference is securely associated with the Salisbury branch in later heraldic usage; do not assume that every early depiction included it without checking the individual object.