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Arms
painted by Andrew
Stewart Jamieson
The gold background
represents the armiger’s
life achievements and
successes and was also
chosen to represent the
status of knighthood.
The red lion represents
power and a fighting
spirit as does it's
guardant-rampant stance;
its two tails represent
the number 22 of the
armiger’s syndrome, Velo
Cardio Facial Syndrome
or 22q11 Deletion
Syndrome, one of the
tails is shorter than
the other representing
the gene deletion.
The
sword is taken from the
original Quinn
achievement and
represents the armiger’s
name Quinn, which is his
mother's last name. The
shield the lion is
holding represents the
middle name of
Crowninshield. As the
armiger is a twice
removed descendant of
that family, there is a
bordure around the
shield for difference.
The armiger’s
Crowninshield ancestor
was a judge in the court
of the Duke of
Saxe-Weimar and was
awarded a coat of arms
consisting of a white
imperial crown on a blue
shield. The bordure
around the Crowninshield
coat of arms is black
because the armiger is a
descendant of two
different lines of a
common ancestor via his
paternal grandparents
both of whose wives bore
a coat of arms
predominantly black in
colour.
The
green mound the lion is
standing on represents
the armiger’s last name
Bradlee, which was
originally Bradley, an
English name meaning
broad meadow or broad
clearing.
The
two hearts represent the
armiger’s survival of
two heart failures. The
drop of blood below
signifies the open-heart
surgery undergone by the
armiger when only three
months old.
The
neck ribbon hanging from
the coat of arms is that
of a Knight Commander of
the Royal House of
Braganza, the senior
Royal house to the
throne of Portugal.
Previous Registration of
Arms for:
Josiah Quinn
Crowninshield Bradlee
No. 0316 (Vol.2).
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