Coat of Arms
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the marquessate is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, or a saltire and chief gules on a canton argent a lion rampant azure (for Bruce); 2nd and 3rd, argent a chevron gules between three chapeaux to the sinister azure (for Brudenell). This can be translated as: a shield divided into quarters, the top left and bottom right golden with a red rectangle above and a red saltire over the top, in the top left of the quarter a white rectangle with a blue lion rampant (for the Bruce family); the top right and bottom left quarters white with a red chevron and three blue caps of state facing right (for the Brudenell family).
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