The
Armiger has
two other
entries in the
register:
South
Africa: The
International
Register of
Arms, 12th
March 2006.
Registration
Number
No.00037.
Spain:
The
International
Register of
Arms, 11th
August 2016.
Registration
Number No.0394
(Vol.3).
The
English
version of the
armiger's coat
of arms is
based on a
previous
design first
registered
with the
Bureau of
Heraldry of
the Republic
of South
Africa. For
the English
arms, the
armiger
replaced the
three drops of
water in chief
with three
fountains,
added a crown
radiant and a
single pointed
vajra to the
arms to better
tie in with
the English
badge, and had
the artist
exemplify the
previous Latin
motto,
Affulgeo, in
English to
reflect his
preference for
plain English
in his work as
an attorney.
The armiger
changed the
three drops of
water to three
fountains
because he
learned his
family
descends
agnatically
from Zhu Xi,
Duke of Hui
during the
Song Dynasty
and can claim
distant
genealogical
connections
with Confucius
and Yan Hui.
These three
individuals
are major
saints of
Confucianism,
a
philosophical
system
represented by
the Chinese
character for
water. The
fountains
retain the
water imagery
of the South
African arms
and also
represent
knowledge in
Western
symbolism,
i.e., the
fountain or
font of
knowledge,
thereby
alluding to
the armiger’s
education and
his pursuit of
knowledge.
The English
badge refers
to the
Ploysongsang
surname. In
Indic
mythology,
which greatly
influenced
Thai culture,
the vajra or
thunderbolt is
also described
as a jewel.
Together, the
crown radiant
and the vajra
jewel
symbolize the
armiger's
surname, which
means "radiant
jewel," and
allude to the
Thai and
Indian
portions of
the armiger’s
ancestry.
These same
elements are
in the arms as
well to better
tie the badge
to the arms,
though now
with the blue
crown
symbolizing
level-headed,
spoken
authority and
the vajra
representing
action.
The armiger
obtained his
honorary grant
of arms
through the
College of
Arms to
fulfill a
life-long
ambition to
work with the
College of
Arms, and
because he
wished to
officially
exercise his
heraldic
privileges now
as an Officer
(4th Class) in
The Priory in
the USA of the
Most Venerable
Order of the
Hospital of
St. John of
Jerusalem per
the Statutes
and
Regulations of
that British
royal order of
chivalry.
The armiger's
background
information
from his
previous
entries
remains
largely
unchanged
except that he
is now
remarried with
two more
heraldic
heirs, is a
Grand Cordon
(1st Class) of
the Royal and
Hashemite
Order of the
Pearl, a
Member (5th
Class) of the
Order of
Prince Danilo
I, and Lord of
the Manor of
Thorndon Parva
(Little
Thorndon) in
the County of
Suffolk,
England. The
Manor of
Thorndon
existed before
the Norman
conquest of
1066, was
mentioned in
both Domesday
and Little
Domesday in
1086, and was
a royal manor
over several
decades being
owned at
various times
by King Edward
I, King Edward
II, Queen
Isabella of
France, King
Edward III,
King Richard
II, Queen Mary
I of England,
Queen
Elizabeth I,
and King James
VI & I
among a few
others before
Thorndon Parva
became its own
sub-manor
through royal
assent by
1629, the
first year
that separate
manorial
records exist
at The
National
Archives.
The
Arms show the
badge of an
Officer of the
Order of St.
John hanging
from the
shield.
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