Family / house

Cecil

Family / cadet branch

Exeter line; Burghley House succession

Armiger / bearer

John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Cracroft's Peerage; historical biographical sources

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

15 May 1674

Until / superseded

24 December 1721

Historical period

Late Stuart and early Georgian period

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

A field of ten silver and blue horizontal bars bearing six black shields; each shield contains 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 conventional peerage achievement.

Difference / variant

Inherited the established Exeter Cecil arms without a recorded personal shield difference.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Exeter, Earl of

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter

Mother

Anne Cavendish

Spouse(s)

Annabella Grey; Elizabeth Brownlow

Children / next generation

John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter; Brownlow Cecil, 8th Earl of Exeter; Hon. William Cecil; Hon. Charles Cecil; Lady Elizabeth Cecil

Notes / sources