Family / house

Cecil of Wimbledon and Putney; Cecil of Exeter; Wray of Ashby; Wray of Glentworth; Noel; Drury

Family / cadet branch

Female line from Wimbledon into the Ashby Wray family

Armiger / bearer

Albinia Cecil and Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

armigerous_gentry

Heraldic authority

Wimbledon parish history; State Papers Domestic; Wherry, Albinia Book; Cokayne, Complete Baronetage

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

3 August 1623

Until / superseded

8 February 1646

Historical period

early Stuart England and the English Civil War

Blazon

Matrimonial combination reconstructed from documented parental arms: dexter, Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules, for Wray of Ashby and Glentworth; sinister, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, for Cecil of Wimbledon and Putney.

Plain-English description

The Wray coat would occupy the husband's side and the Cecil coat of Wimbledon the wife's side in an impaled marital shield. This is a genealogical reconstruction, not a separately located patent or surviving personal grant for the couple.

Tinctures

Azure; Or; Gules; Argent; Sable

Charges / ordinaries

martlets; escutcheons; lions rampant

Crest

Wray: an ostrich Or; Cecil of Wimbledon: a garb Or supported by two lions, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure.

Motto

Wray: ET JUSTE ET VRAY; Cecil of Wimbledon: COR UNUM VIA UNA.

Difference / variant

Female-line marital transmission: Albinia conveyed descent from Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, into the Wray of Ashby family. The arms are recorded as separate paternal and maternal components, not as a new hereditary Wray-Cecil surname or independent grant.

Source reference

State Papers Domestic, certificate concerning Edward Cecil's issue

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon

Mother

Theodosia Noel

Spouse(s)

Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby

Children / next generation

Frances Wray; Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet of Ashby; Edward Wray; Sir Drury Wray, 9th Baronet; Elizabeth Wray; Albinia Wray; Cecil Wray; Theodosia Wray

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources