England
Cecil of Wakerley–Exeter — David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter
- Family / house
- Cecil; Cecil of Wakerley; Cecil of Exeter; Cecil of Burghley; Egerton; Bridgewater
- Family / cadet branch
- Wakerley branch, succeeding into the senior Exeter earldom
- Armiger / bearer
- David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter and 4th Baron Burghley
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English peerage and hereditary Cecil arms
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 6 July 1640
- Until / superseded
- 18 April 1643
- Historical period
- Early Stuart England and Civil War 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
- Ten horizontal silver and blue stripes with six black shields placed three, two and one, each bearing a silver rampant lion.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- Six escutcheons Sable; Six lions rampant Argent
- Crest
- The inherited Exeter Cecil crest: a garb Or supported by two lions, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure.
- Motto
- COR UNUM VIA UNA is associated with the later Wimbledon and Amherst-Cecil collateral achievements, but no separate motto is securely established here for David's personal record.
- Exterior ornaments
- As 3rd Earl of Exeter and 4th Baron Burghley, his achievement would have been displayed with the appropriate coronet and, potentially, peerage ornaments. No securely identified personal depiction has been located in this research.
- Difference / variant
- David carried the undifferenced Exeter Cecil arms after succeeding his paternal first cousin once removed, William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, in 1640. His succession caused the Wakerley cadet branch to merge into the senior Exeter title line.
- Source reference
- Complete Peerage, Exeter succession
- Linked historical person
- David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir Richard Cecil of Wakerley
- Mother
- Elizabeth Cope
- Spouse(s)
- Lady Elizabeth Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and Lady Frances Stanley
- Children / next generation
- John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter; Thomas Cecil, died unmarried and without issue in or about May 1641; Lady Frances Cecil, married Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
David is the principal documented descendant of the Wakerley branch. His inheritance did not create a new visual cadet design: it transferred the Wakerley male line into the undifferenced senior Exeter Cecil succession.