England
Fiennes of Broughton — Nathaniel Fiennes, parliamentary cadet branch
- Family / house
- Fiennes; Fiennes of Broughton; Saye and Sele; Eliot; Whitehead
- Family / cadet branch
- Second-son parliamentary cadet branch from William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
- Armiger / bearer
- Nathaniel Fiennes
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- History of Parliament and peerage genealogy
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1608
- Until / superseded
- 1669
- Historical period
- early Stuart, Civil War and Interregnum England
- Blazon
- Azure, three lions rampant Or.
- Plain-English description
- A blue shield bearing three upright gold lions.
- Tinctures
- Azure; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- Three lions rampant
- Difference / variant
- Younger-son branch retaining the undifferenced Fiennes arms by descent from the first Viscount. Nathaniel's male line later supplied the heir to the viscountcy as William, 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Viscount Saye and Sele
- Linked historical person
- Nathaniel Fiennes
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
- Mother
- Elizabeth Temple
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth Eliot; Frances Whitehead
- Children / next generation
- Nathaniel Fiennes, who died young; William Fiennes, 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele; Mary Fiennes
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
No separate differenced shield has been located for Nathaniel; the cadet classification is genealogical rather than based on a documented charge difference.