England
Cecil of Exeter — John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter
- Family / house
- Cecil
- Family / cadet branch
- Exeter line; Burghley House succession
- Armiger / bearer
- John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- History of Parliament; Fitzwilliam Museum; Cracroft's Peerage
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1648
- Until / superseded
- 29 August 1700
- Historical period
- Restoration and late seventeenth century
- Blazon
- Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, armed and langued Gules.
- Plain-English description
- Ten horizontal silver and blue bars, overlaid by six black shields arranged three, two and one, each bearing a silver rampant lion.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- Six escutcheons; Six rampant lions
- Crest
- A garb Or supported by two lions rampant, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure.
- Motto
- COR UNUM VIA UNA
- Exterior ornaments
- Earl's coronet and peerage achievement; surviving portraits and prints show the armiger within the visual culture of Burghley House.
- Difference / variant
- The principal Exeter design continued without a recorded shield difference in this generation.
- Source reference
- History of Parliament, John Cecil (c.1648–1700)
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter
- Mother
- Lady Frances Manners
- Spouse(s)
- Anne Cavendish
- Children / next generation
- John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter; William Cecil; Hon. Charles Cecil
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The Fitzwilliam image is a portrait rather than a heraldic shield, but it is a faithful visual record of the armiger and is suitable as a person-profile image under the museum's stated licence.