Collateral blood relative

Philippin de Girecourt

Also recorded as Philippin de Gircourt

Écuyer of the Gircourt family, named as already deceased in the act of 1355 by which Mengin Le Clerc sold two inherited portions of his estate at Folz beneath the castle of Faucompierre. He is the documentary link between the Le Clerc family and the Gircourt inheritance.

Dates: Died before 1355
Titles and offices: Écuyer
House or family: De Gircourt
Father: Not established
Mother: Not established
Spouse: Not recorded
Relationship to Brandon: A kinsman of the Gircourt house named in the 1355 act, not a direct ancestor of the line.
Evidence status: Primary Source

Historical summary

The act does not state his exact relationship to Catherine de Gircourt, and none is asserted here. What it does establish is that the property Mengin Le Clerc disposed of in 1355 came out of a Gircourt estate.

Collateral blood relative. A kinsman of the Gircourt house named in the 1355 act, not a direct ancestor of the line.

Line to Brandon Noble LeClaire

This person is a collateral blood relative. No line of descent runs through them.

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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. Primary or contemporary record
Trésor des chartes de Lorraine, 1355, archival reference under investigation, Duchy of Lorraine, ducal archive tradition, 1355
- Cited for: Moingins dis li clers, also recorded as Mengin Le Clerc, of Deyvillers
- Cited for: Sale in 1355 to Jean de Nomeny of two inherited portions from the estate of the late Philippin de Girecourt, écuyer, at Folz beneath the castle of Faucompierre, for 26 petits florins d'or
The transcription and citation tradition of this act are established; a modern archival shelfmark has not yet been confirmed and none is asserted here. The act does not identify Moingins dis li clers with Johann III von Mengen.
2. Older Le Clerc genealogical tradition
Guy de Rambaud, Mengin Le Clerc View source
- Cited for: The older Le Clerc genealogical tradition concerning Mengin Le Clerc, also recorded as Moingins dis li clers, of Deyvillers
- Cited for: The 1355 transaction with Jean de Nomeny over inherited portions of the estate of the late Philippin de Girecourt at Folz beneath Faucompierre for 26 petits florins d'or, attributed to the Trésor des chartes de Lorraine
Evidence for Mengin Le Clerc and the 1355 transaction only. It is not evidence that Mengin Le Clerc and Johann III von Mengen are the same person.

Further references

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