England: Surrey, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire
Cecil of Wimbledon — family branch and female-transmitted collateral network
- Family / house
- Cecil of Wimbledon; Cecil of Exeter; Noel; Wray of Ashby; Willoughby of Parham; Fiennes of Broughton; Zouche of Woking; Drury of Hawstead
- Family / cadet branch
- Wimbledon and Putney branch issuing from the third son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
- Armiger / bearer
- Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, and the surviving descendants of his daughters
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- St Mary's Wimbledon; Complete Peerage-derived genealogical records; History of Parliament; Surrey county armorial material
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1601-07-10
- Until / superseded
- 1684-12-31
- Historical period
- seventeenth-century England
- Blazon
- Principal paternal arms: Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent.
- Plain-English description
- The branch used the Cecil arms inherited from the Exeter line. Its historical importance lies in the daughters' marriages, which connected the Wimbledon Cecils to Wray of Ashby, Willoughby of Parham, Fiennes of Broughton and Saye and Sele, while Sophia Zouche's remarriage connected the widow's estate network to the Kings of Boyle.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- six escutcheons; six lions rampant
- Crest
- A garb Or supported by two lions, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure.
- Motto
- COR UNUM VIA UNA
- Exterior ornaments
- No separate continuing hereditary achievement for a male-line Wimbledon successor is established because Edward's only son died in infancy. The chapel and windows at St Mary's preserve the branch's memorial armorial context.
- Difference / variant
- A distinct third-son branch of the Exeter Cecils, separate from the senior Exeter earldom line and from the Salisbury line founded by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
- Source reference
- St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, Cecil Chapel history
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
- Mother
- Dorothy Neville
- Spouse(s)
- Theodosia Noel; Diana Drury; Sophia Zouche
- Children / next generation
- Dorothy Cecil; Albinia Cecil; Elizabeth Cecil; Frances Cecil; Utriche Cecil; Anne Cecil; Hon. Algernon Cecil
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The female-transmitted network should be expanded as linked marital and heiress records, not merged into a fictitious continuing male-line Wimbledon coat.