Brandon Allen Zheng

Heraldry of the World
Personal arms

BRANDON ALLEN ZHENG

Registration no.: 023/2025

Country of origin: United States
Place of origin: Houston, Texas
Granted/officially recorded by: -

Official English blazon

Badges of Brandon Allen Zheng

Arms: Azure, two bars Or between seven lozenges, 3, 3 and 1, Ermine.

Crest: On a helm mantled Azure doubled per pale Or and Argent, a portcullis Or surmounted by a cockroach palewise Proper.

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Origin/meaning

The armiger’s coat of arms were adapted from those of two other armigers: Joshua Bayes (of Bayesian statistics fame) and Tony Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury. Specifically, the armiger adapted the Bayes arms but replaced the crosses crosslet on the original with the lozenges/fusils ermine on Halsbury's arms.

Due to the third Earl of Halsbury’s career as a computer scientist, including a term as president of the British Computing Society, his family’s lozenges ermine have become one way to symbolize computers and digital technology. At the time, the armiger was not yet familiar with this form of abstract symbolism and found it intriguing. As well as being the armiger’s favorite heraldic charge, the lozenges ermine also represent how the armiger’s initial exposure to and passion for heraldry started on virtual communities like the Heraldry Community on Discord.

The armiger’s crest is a visual cant on the Chinese character 閩, meaning “of or pertaining to Fujian”, the armiger’s father’s home province. The character features the character for “insect” surrounded by the “door” radical—hence the cockroach and the portcullis.