Historical families bearing the names Richebourg and Porcher de Richebourg possessed coats of arms, but no surviving evidence yet found establishes that any particular arms were borne by Rev. Claude Philippe de Richebourg or his descendants in America.
For many years, I’ve been searching for The Richbourg “Coat of Arms”. Not being sure if I really remembered seeing one or just imagined seeing one during earlier research forays. The links below represent what I have found. But, please note that they have not been authenticated any further than the websites they appear on… This means I have not vetted these with the Coat of Arms police. 😉
(Blason originally comes from a heraldic term in French heraldry and means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself.)
Search for the term ‘blason richebourg’ returned the following results…
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Richebourg_%28Pas-de-Calais%29
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blason_richebourg.jpg
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p429.htm (scroll down to the Pierre I, comte de St. Pol entry)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blason_Richebourg_52.svg
The Halbert’s sheet many of us had
We don’t know.
Claude Philippe may have come from a noble French family, and early Huguenot researchers associated him with Isaac Porcher de Richebourg and a family claiming descent from the Counts of Richebourg. Modern scholarship is more cautious about his origins. Until a contemporary French record connects Claude Philippe to a particular armigerous family, none of the arms shown here should be considered the Richbourg family coat of arms.
Though there is some similarity between the Halbert’s description and Blason Richebourg image above =-o