Coat of Arms
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the marquessate is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, barry of ten or and sable (for Boteville); 2nd and 3rd, argent a lion rampant with tail nowed and erected gules (for Thynne). This can be translated as: a shield divided into quarters, the top left and bottom right made of ten horizontal bars alternating gold and black (for the Boteville family); the top right and bottom left quarters white with a red lion rampant with a knotted tail (for the Thynne family).
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