England; ancient Barony of Ros of Helmsley
Ros of Helmsley — William Cecil's inherited baronial armorial component
- Family / house
- Ros of Helmsley; de Ros; Manners; Cecil of Exeter
- Family / cadet branch
- The ancient Ros barony transmitted through the female line of Elizabeth Manners into the Cecil family
- Armiger / bearer
- William Cecil, 16th Baron Ros of Helmsley
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Commissioners for the Office of Earl Marshal and royal determination under James VI and I, as reported in Complete Peerage
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1591
- Until / superseded
- 1618-06-27
- Historical period
- Late Tudor and early Stuart England
- Grant / record reference
- 1616 royal determination concerning the competing Cecil and Manners claims to the Barony of Ros
- Blazon
- Gules, three water bougets Argent.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield bearing three silver water-buckets or water-bougets.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent
- Charges / ordinaries
- three water bougets
- Exterior ornaments
- No separate personal crest, supporters or complete achievement for William as Baron Ros has been securely located. The Ros arms should be treated as the inherited titular component, not automatically quartered into the Cecil paternal shield.
- Difference / variant
- The Ros arms entered William's armorial identity by inheritance from his mother, Elizabeth Manners, rather than by a new grant to William. They represent the ancient barony and were distinct from his paternal Cecil coat.
- Source reference
- Complete Peerage, Appendix H, Ros or Roos
- Linked historical person
- William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter
- Mother
- Elizabeth Manners, 15th Baroness Ros
- Spouse(s)
- Anne Lake, later Anne Rodney
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The barony's inheritance and its armorial component must be distinguished from agnatic Cecil descent. William was a Cecil by male-line descent from the Exeter branch, but Baron Ros through his mother's inherited dignity. A full quartered or impaled personal achievement for him has not been securely evidenced.