England
Cecil of Salisbury — paternal arms of Lady Catherine Cecil
- Family / house
- Cecil; Cecil of Salisbury; Hatfield House
- Family / cadet branch
- Salisbury branch of Cecil, descended from Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, younger son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
- Armiger / bearer
- Lady Catherine Cecil, Countess of Egmont
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Cecil/Salisbury arms recorded in county armorial and peerage sources
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 15 August 1719
- Until / superseded
- 16 August 1752
- Historical period
- 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, a crescent Gules for difference.
- Plain-English description
- Ten alternating horizontal bars of silver and blue are overlaid by six small black shields arranged three, two and one, each bearing a silver rampant lion. A red crescent marks the Salisbury cadet line of Cecil.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- ten bars; six escutcheons; six rampant lions; crescent for difference
- Crest
- Six arrows in saltire Or, barbed and feathered Argent, bound together with a belt Gules, buckled and garnished Gold, over the arrows a morion cap Proper.
- Motto
- SERO SED SERIO
- Exterior ornaments
- The Salisbury family achievement is associated with two ermine lions as supporters. As a daughter of the Earl of Salisbury, Lady Catherine's paternal armorial identity derives from this branch; the evidence does not establish a distinct personal grant or a separate daughter-specific brisure.
- Difference / variant
- The Salisbury coat is a differenced junior form of the wider Cecil achievement. The red crescent distinguishes the Salisbury/Hatfield branch from the undifferenced Cecil arms used by the senior Burghley and Exeter lines in the relevant period.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Salisbury, Earl of
- Linked historical person
- John II Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury
- Mother
- Lady Anne Tufton, daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet
- Spouse(s)
- John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
- Children / next generation
- John James Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont; Cecil Parker Perceval; Philip Tufton Perceval; Edward Perceval; Lady Catherine Perceval; Margaret Perceval; Frederick Augustus Perceval
Notes / sources
The Salisbury arms are entered as the paternal family arms of an identified armiger, not as an invented surname coat. No evidence has been found that Catherine bore an independently granted coat distinct from her paternal Cecil arms.