England
Noel of Exton — Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden
- Family / house
- Noel; Noel of Exton; Hicks; Campden
- Family / cadet branch
- Exton–Campden senior succession
- Armiger / bearer
- Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- History of Parliament and English peerage authorities
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1611
- Until / superseded
- 1682
- Historical period
- Caroline, Interregnum and Restoration England
- Blazon
- Or, fretty Gules, a canton Ermine.
- Plain-English description
- Gold with a red fret and an ermine canton.
- Tinctures
- Or; Gules; Ermine
- Charges / ordinaries
- Fret; Canton
- Difference / variant
- The Noel shield used by the third Campden viscount before the later Earl of Gainsborough achievement introduced the Hicks quarterings.
- Source reference
- History of Parliament, Baptist Noel (1611–82)
- Linked historical person
- Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden
- Mother
- Juliana Hicks
- Spouse(s)
- Anne Feilding, daughter of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh; Anne Lovett, widow of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath; Hester Wotton, daughter and coheir of Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton; Elizabeth Bertie, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey
- Children / next generation
- Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough; Baptist Noel of North Luffenham; Henry Noel; John Noel; Elizabeth Noel, later Countess of Berkeley; Catherine Noel, later Duchess of Rutland; Mary Noel, later Countess of Northampton; Rachel Noel, later Duchess of Beaufort
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This is an individual succession record rather than a new family design; its value lies in linking the senior Noel arms to the first Gainsborough generation and the major collateral marriages.