Direct ancestor

Claude Leclerc de Pulligny

A major patriarch of the House of Le Clerc. Merchant of silk and wool cloth, valet de chambre to Duke Antoine, Conseiller and Auditeur at the Chamber of Accounts under Charles III, and seigneur of multiple lordships in Lorraine.

Dates
c. 1485 to 1562
Titles and offices
  • Valet de Chambre to Duke Antoine of Lorraine
  • Seigneur of Pulligny, Ceintrey, Voinémont, Malaucourt-sur-Seille, Chamagne, Érize-Saint-Dizier and Saint-Dizier
House or family
Le Clerc / LeClaire (Leclerc)
Mother
Mengette
Children in this pedigree
Relationship to Brandon
Direct ancestor of Brandon Noble LeClaire, 14 generations before him.
Evidence status
LeClaire Family Archive

Line to Brandon Noble LeClaire

Direct ancestor of Brandon Noble LeClaire, 14 generations before him, through Le Clerc / LeClaire. Each step below is derived from the archive’s single canonical genealogy; spouses appear on the same generational row as their partner.

  1. Claude Leclerc de Pulligny Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourtc. 1485 to 1562
  2. Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny Claudon Galland de Pulligny1532 to 1598
  3. Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny Madeleine Platel du Plateau1585 to after 1659
  4. Nicolas Le Clerc Anne Fériet de Lézé1624 to 1660
  5. Alexandre II Le Clerc Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant1652 to 1695
  6. François 'Pierre' Le Claire Marie-Anne Du MoineBorn 1684
  7. Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere1718 to 1793
  8. 'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire Elisabeth J. Grégoire24 June 1754 to 29 July 1825
  9. Johann Baptiste Le Clair Gertrud L. A. de WeelsBorn 1796
  10. Gottfried Leclair Maria E. Maßmann1842 to 1915
  11. Julius Leclair Elisabeth Fitze1880 to 1961
  12. Bernhardine Licklär1920 to 1978
  13. Monika Ute Licklär Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung TaiBorn 1944
  14. Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble Ian Dennis NobleBorn 1966
  15. Brandon Noble LeClaire Abigail Jane GreenlandBorn 1995

See the generation timeline and the canonical pedigree.

Explore their ancestry

Both parents of every person are independently explorable. Follow either line upwards as far as the evidence runs.

Paternal line

Mengin II Le Clerc

Maternal line

Mengette

All 45 recorded ancestors of Claude Leclerc de Pulligny

Further references

  • Documented record, letters of ennoblement, 5 May 1512, Duke Antoine of Lorraine.
  • Documented record, appointment to the Chamber of Accounts, 9 February 1553, Duke Charles III of Lorraine.
  • Documented record, burial at the Basilica of Saint-Epvre, Nancy, 1562.
  • Genealogical source tradition, Guy de Rambaud and associated Lorraine genealogical compilations.

Claude Leclerc de Pulligny is recorded in the ancestry of the House of LeClaire alongside 176 other identified individuals.