Le Claire

Direct ancestor

Jacques de Gircourt

Also recorded as Jacques de Girecourt

Lorraine feudatory of the house of Gircourt; husband of Catherine de Haute-Pierre and father of Catherine de Gircourt, wife of Mengin Le Clerc. He is placed by the chronology of his daughter rather than by any dated record of his own.

Dates
Born fl. c. 1300 to c. 1340
Titles and offices
  • Feudatory of Lorraine
House or family
De Gircourt
Father
Not established
Mother
Not established
Spouse
Catherine de Haute-Pierre
Children in this pedigree
Relationship to Brandon
Direct ancestor of Brandon Noble LeClaire, 19 generations before him.
Evidence status
Published Genealogy

No birth year is asserted for him. The 1285 vassal reference associated with the Gircourt name is held apart from his personal chronology until it is disambiguated, and the estimate of a birth about 1300 seen in user-submitted trees is not carried here.

Historical summary

His floruit is fixed by his household, not by a birth record. His daughter Catherine de Gircourt was of age to marry Mengin Le Clerc and to be living at the time of the act of 1355, which requires her birth in the earlier decades of the fourteenth century; his wife Catherine de Haute-Pierre was herself the daughter of a man who died about 1343. A man active from about 1300 to about 1340 satisfies both, and no narrower bracket is defensible.

Two claims circulating in online trees cannot both be true of one man: a birth of about 1300 and a vassal appearance in 1285. This archive resolves the conflict by discarding neither person nor record, but by declining to attach the 1285 reference to him. It belongs to an older bearer of the Gircourt name, most likely his father or grandfather.

Line to Brandon Noble LeClaire

Direct ancestor of Brandon Noble LeClaire, 19 generations before him, through De Gircourt, 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. Jacques de Gircourt Catherine de Haute-PierreBorn fl. c. 1300 to c. 1340
  2. Catherine de Gircourt Mengin Le Clercc. 1320 to after 1355
  3. Colin Le Clerc Marguerite PetitgoutDates not established
  4. Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny N. de Pullignyc. 1410 to c. 1465
  5. Mengin II Le Clerc MengetteDates not established
  6. Claude Leclerc de Pulligny Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourtc. 1485 to 1562
  7. Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny Claudon Galland de Pulligny1532 to 1598
  8. Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny Madeleine Platel du Plateau1585 to after 1659
  9. Nicolas Le Clerc Anne Fériet de Lézé1624 to 1660
  10. Alexandre II Le Clerc Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant1652 to 1695
  11. François 'Pierre' Le Claire Marie-Anne Du MoineBorn 1684
  12. Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere1718 to 1793
  13. 'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire Elisabeth J. Grégoire24 June 1754 to 29 July 1825
  14. Johann Baptiste Le Clair Gertrud L. A. de WeelsBorn 1796
  15. Gottfried Leclair Maria E. Maßmann1842 to 1915
  16. Julius Leclair Elisabeth Fitze1880 to 1961
  17. Bernhardine Licklär1920 to 1978
  18. Monika Ute Licklär Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung TaiBorn 1944
  19. Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble Ian Dennis NobleBorn 1966
  20. Brandon Noble LeClaire Abigail Jane GreenlandBorn 1995

See the generation timeline and the canonical pedigree.

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Paternal line

Not established

Maternal line

Not established

Sources for this record

Sources are listed in order of evidential weight. A contemporary record outranks a printed reference work; a printed reference work outranks a derivative pedigree or an online database.

  1. 1. Historical academic publication

    Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz, Éditions Le Lorrain, 1885, Volumes 63 to 64, page 122

    • Cited for: Jean (Johann IV) de Mengen recorded as dead by 1407

    Cited only for what can be verified from the printed page; no wider claim rests on it.

  2. 2. LeClaire family archive, internal research

    LeClaire Family Historical Archive and research ledger, House of LeClaire

    • Cited for: The reconstruction of the pedigree and the reconciliation of competing identifications

Further references

  • LeClaire.co.uk family archive and existing pedigree
  • Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz

Jacques de Gircourt is recorded in the ancestry of the House of LeClaire alongside 176 other identified individuals.