England
Cecil of Salisbury — paternal arms of Lady Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Cecil
- Family / house
- Cecil; Salisbury; Hatfield House
- Family / cadet branch
- Salisbury and Hatfield branch of Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
- Armiger / bearer
- Lady Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Cecil
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Cecil of Salisbury armorial tradition, supported by the recorded achievement of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1786-01-01
- Until / superseded
- 1860-01-18
- Historical period
- Georgian and early Victorian 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 bands of silver and blue are overlaid by six black shields arranged three, two and one, each bearing a silver lion. A red crescent marks the junior Salisbury branch descended from Robert Cecil and distinguishes it from the senior undifferenced Cecil coat.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- bars or barrulets; six escutcheons; six lions rampant; crescent
- Difference / variant
- Lady Georgiana belonged by birth to the Salisbury cadet branch of the Cecil family. Her paternal arms are the Salisbury Cecil coat with the red crescent branch difference; as a woman, the arms would conventionally be displayed on a lozenge or in a marital achievement rather than treated as an independent shield in the same manner as a male armiger.
- Source reference
- James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, family and issue
- Linked historical person
- Lady Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Cecil
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
- Mother
- Lady Emily Mary Hill
- Spouse(s)
- Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley of Wellesley
- Children / next generation
- Hon. Georgiana Charlotte Mary Wellesley, born 11 June 1817, married William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer in 1848
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The red crescent is the key distinction separating the Salisbury cadet branch from the principal undifferenced Cecil coat used by the Burghley and Exeter lines.