One canonical relationship graph
Canonical Pedigree: Charlemagne to Brandon Noble LeClaire
The full canonical direct line of descent from Charlemagne to Brandon Noble LeClaire, generation by generation, with an evidence label on every parent-to-child link.
The line below is generated from the archive’s single relationship graph, so it always matches every person page. It runs through 42 generations. Where a marriage transmits the next generation, husband and wife appear on the same row; a spouse is never shown as a generation of her own. The label under each entry records the evidential standing of the link to the generation beneath it.
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Charlemagne ∶ Hildegard of the Vinzgau
2 April 747 or 748 to 28 January 814 · King of the Franks · King of the Lombards · Emperor of the Romans (800 to 814)
King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans from 800; the ultimate ancestor reached along the Carolingian branch of this descent, through Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald and the kings of West Francia.
Link to Louis the Pious: Contemporary Record
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Louis the Pious ∶ Judith of Bavaria, Empress
16 April 778 to 20 June 840 · King of the Franks · Holy Roman Emperor (814 to 840)
Sole surviving legitimate son of Charlemagne and his successor as Emperor; father of Charles the Bald by his second wife, Judith of Bavaria.
Link to Charles II, Holy Roman Emperor: Published Genealogy
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Charles II, Holy Roman Emperor ∶ Ermentrude of Orléans
13 June 823 to 6 October 877 · King of West Francia · Holy Roman Emperor (875 to 877)
Grandson of Charlemagne and first Carolingian king of West Francia under the Treaty of Verdun; Emperor from 875 and father of Louis the Stammerer.
Link to Louis II, King of West Francia: Published Genealogy
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Louis II, King of West Francia ∶ Adelaide of Paris
1 November 846 to 10 April 879 · King of Aquitaine · King of West Francia (877 to 879)
Son of Charles the Bald; King of West Francia from 877 and father of Charles III the Simple.
Link to Ermentrude of the Carolingians: Under Active Research
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Ermentrude of the Carolingians
Dates not established
Daughter of Louis II the Stammerer, King of the West Franks, and Adelaide of Paris; the Carolingian ancestress of Cunigunda, wife of Wigeric of the Bidgau.
Link to Cunigunda: Under Active Research
The Carolingian descent of Cunigunda is a reconstruction of the prosopographical literature rather than a documented filiation. It is carried here as the canonical working pedigree with its evidential status stated.
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Cunigunda ∶ Wigeric of Lotharingia
Dates not established
Wife of Wigeric of the Bidgau. Through her the house of Ardennes carries the Carolingian royal descent, by way of Ermentrude, daughter of Louis II the Stammerer.
Link to Gozlin of Bidgau: Published Genealogy
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Gozlin of Bidgau ∶ Oda of Metz
c. 910 to c. 943 · Count in the Bidgau · Count in the Ardennes
Count in the Bidgau and the Ardennes, c. 910 to c. 943; father of Godfrey the Captive.
Link to Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun: Contemporary Record
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Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun ∶ Mathilde of Saxony
c. 935 to c. 1005 · Count of Verdun · Margrave of Antwerp
Count of Verdun, c. 935 to c. 1005; husband of Mathilde of Saxony and father of Gerberge of Verdun.
Link to Gerberge of Verdun: Published Genealogy
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Gerberge of Verdun ∶ Folmar of Metz
Dates not established
Daughter of Godfrey the Captive, Count of Verdun, and Mathilde of Saxony; wife of Folmar IV of Metz. Through her the descent continues into the house of Ardennes and the Carolingians.
Link to Gottfried of Metz: Published Genealogy
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Dates not established
Count of Metz and the Saargau; son of Folmar IV and Gerberge of Verdun, and the ancestor from whom the Parroye seigneurs descend in the working pedigree.
Link to Simon de Parroye: Under Active Research
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Dates not established
Son of Gottfried I, Count of Metz and the Saargau, in the working reconstruction; the link between the comital house of Metz and the seigneurs of Parroye.
Link to Sicard (Simon II) de Parroye: Under Active Research
Recorded in the working reconstruction linking the Parroye seigneurs to the comital house of Metz. The relationship is carried as a working genealogy rather than a documented one.
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Dates not established
Styled in some reconstructions "de Metz"; father of Odoin I de Froville in the working pedigree.
Link to Odoin I de Froville: Published Genealogy
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Dates not established
Father of Odon II de Froville in the working Froville and Parroye pedigree.
Link to Odon II de Froville: Published Genealogy
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Odon II de Froville ∶ Adélaïde de Neuviller
Dates not established
Father of Simon de Froville in the working Froville and Parroye pedigree.
Link to Simon de Froville: Published Genealogy
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Simon de Froville ∶ Mathilde de Parroy
Dates not established
Husband of Mathilde de Parroy and father of Simon I de Parroye.
Link to Simon I de Parroye: Published Genealogy
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Dates not established
Head of the house of Parroye and father of Albert de Parroye, from whom the Haute-Pierre cadet branch and the direct route to Brandon Noble LeClaire descend.
Link to Albert de Parroye: Published Genealogy
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Dates not established
Son of Simon I de Parroye and early representative of the Haute-Pierre cadet branch of the house of Parroye. The first of the three successive Alberts.
Link to Albert de Haute-Pierre: Published Genealogy
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c. 1172 to c. 1222 · Chevalier
Chevalier of the Haute-Pierre branch, c. 1172 to c. 1222; the second of the three successive Alberts and father of Albert de Haute-Pierre, seigneur de Haute-Pierre (died 1231).
Link to Albert de Haute-Pierre: Published Genealogy
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Died 20 October 1231 · Seigneur de Haute-Pierre
Seigneur de Haute-Pierre, died 20 October 1231; father of Liébaud de Haute-Pierre (died 1281). The third of three successive Alberts, who are kept distinct in this archive.
Link to Liébaud de Haute-Pierre: Published Genealogy
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Liébaud de Haute-Pierre ∶ Isabelle
Died 1281 · Chevalier · Seigneur de Froville
Chevalier and seigneur de Froville, died 1281; member of the Haute-Pierre branch of the house of Parroye and father of Marguerite and Hadwide de Haute-Pierre.
Link to Marguerite de Haute-Pierre: Published Genealogy
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Marguerite de Haute-Pierre ∶ Jean II de Toullon
Dates not established
Daughter of Liébaud de Haute-Pierre and his wife Isabelle; wife of Jean II de Toullon. She is the branch by which the Haute-Pierre ancestry passes into the house of Toullon.
Link to Thiébaud (Liébaud) de Toullon: Published Genealogy
An estimated birth of c. 1315 appears in some online trees. It is incompatible with his position as father of Catherine de Haute-Pierre and is not used here; a cautious late thirteenth-century estimate is given instead.
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late 13th century to c. 1343
Son of Jean II de Toullon and Marguerite de Haute-Pierre; father of Catherine de Haute-Pierre, through whom the Toullon and Haute-Pierre ancestry passes into the Gircourt and Le Clerc line.
Link to Catherine de Haute-Pierre: Published Genealogy
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Catherine de Haute-Pierre ∶ Jacques de Gircourt
Born late 13th / early 14th century
Daughter of Thiébaud (Liébaud) de Toullon, wife of Jacques de Gircourt and mother of Catherine de Gircourt. She represents the transmission of the Haute-Pierre and Toullon inheritance into the Gircourt branch.
Link to Catherine de Gircourt: Published Genealogy
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Catherine de Gircourt ∶ Mengin Le Clerc
c. 1320 to after 1355
Daughter of Jacques de Gircourt and Catherine de Haute-Pierre, wife of Mengin Le Clerc and mother of Colin Le Clerc. She is the gateway through which the direct pedigree passes from the Le Clerc family into the Gircourt, Haute-Pierre, Toullon and Parroye ancestry of Lorraine.
Link to Colin Le Clerc: LeClaire Family Archive
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Colin Le Clerc ∶ Marguerite Petitgout
Dates not established · Échevin
Échevin, a civic figure within the early Lorraine line, reflecting the family's early standing in municipal and regional life.
Link to Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny: LeClaire Family Archive
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Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ N. de Pulligny
c. 1410 to c. 1465 · Sieur de Pulligny
Ennobled by letters patent on 3 January 1464. Through him the House enters the recognised noble and seigneurial order of Lorraine.
Link to Mengin II Le Clerc: LeClaire Family Archive
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Dates not established
Continuation of the Pulligny line, an important bridge between the early civic family and the later noble branches.
Link to Claude Leclerc de Pulligny: LeClaire Family Archive
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Claude Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourt
c. 1485 to 1562 · Valet de Chambre to Duke Antoine of Lorraine · Seigneur of Pulligny, Ceintrey, Voinémont, Malaucourt-sur-Seille, Chamagne, Érize-Saint-Dizier and Saint-Dizier
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.
Link to Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny: LeClaire Family Archive
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Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ Claudon Galland de Pulligny
1532 to 1598 · Argentier of the Duke of Lorraine · Treasurer of the Company of the Count of Vaudémont · Valet de Chambre of Duke Charles III · Secretary to Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, Princess of Tarente · Seigneur in part of Pulligny
Argentier to the Duke of Lorraine and Treasurer to the Count of Vaudémont's company, the height of the Le Clerc de Pulligny family's political and financial influence, whose conversion to Protestantism brought the confiscation of the family's nobility and lands, and one of the defining crises in the history of the House.
Link to Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny: LeClaire Family Archive
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Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny ∶ Madeleine Platel du Plateau
1585 to after 1659 · Knight of the Order of Saint Mark (Republic of Venice) · Restored to hereditary nobility, 28 May 1623 · Secretary to Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, Princess of Taranto · Valet de Chambre and Court Musician of the Duke of Lorraine · Resident of Érize-Saint-Dizier
Born in Nancy, son of Claude II Le Clerc de Pulligny and Claudon Mengin de Pulligny. Served Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, Princess of Taranto and wife of Henri de Bourbon-Condé. Later a Knight of Saint Mark and, together with his brother Jean, restored to hereditary nobility on 28 May 1623. Alexandre represents the most likely continuation of the direct ancestral line following Claude II.
Link to Nicolas Le Clerc: LeClaire Family Archive
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Nicolas Le Clerc ∶ Anne Fériet de Lézé
1624 to 1660
Son of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny and father of Alexandre II Le Clerc; the generation through which the direct ancestral line is carried across the mid-seventeenth century in Lorraine.
Link to Alexandre II Le Clerc: LeClaire Family Archive
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Alexandre II Le Clerc ∶ Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant
1652 to 1695 · Minor Lord of Lorraine
Minor Lord of Lorraine and key transitional figure linking the historic Le Clerc de Pulligny family to the subsequent Le Claire branches from which the modern House descends.
Link to François 'Pierre' Le Claire: LeClaire Family Archive
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François 'Pierre' Le Claire ∶ Marie-Anne Du Moine
Born 1684
First generation to bear the Le Claire form of the family name. Son of Alexandre II Le Clerc and direct ancestor of the eighteenth-century Le Claire line.
Link to Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur: LeClaire Family Archive
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Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur ∶ Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere
1718 to 1793
A principal figure in the documented LeClaire line. Father of the senior French officer Théodore François Joseph Leclaire and husband of an heiress of the Van der Vyvere.
Link to 'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire: LeClaire Family Archive
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'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire ∶ Elisabeth J. Grégoire
24 June 1754 to 29 July 1825
Younger son of Jean Pierre Le Claire and Jacqueline Van der Vyvere; younger brother of Général Théodore François Joseph Leclaire. Through Louis the direct bloodline of the modern House descends into the Rhineland.
Link to Johann Baptiste Le Clair: LeClaire Family Archive
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Johann Baptiste Le Clair ∶ Gertrud L. A. de Weels
Born 1796
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
Link to Gottfried Leclair: LeClaire Family Archive
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Gottfried Leclair ∶ Maria E. Maßmann
1842 to 1915
A nineteenth-century representative of the Leclair spelling within the family's period of German-speaking assimilation.
Link to Julius Leclair: LeClaire Family Archive
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Julius Leclair ∶ Elisabeth Fitze
1880 to 1961
Son of Gottfried Leclair and Maria E. Maßmann; husband of Elisabeth Fitze and father of Bernhardine Licklär, through whom the bloodline continues into the modern German-speaking generation.
Link to Bernhardine Licklär: LeClaire Family Archive
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1920 to 1978
Daughter of Julius Leclair and Elisabeth Fitze; her surname records the fully Germanised form of the family name. Mother of Monika Ute Licklär by Jan Jagt; the two were not married.
Link to Monika Ute Licklär: LeClaire Family Archive
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Monika Ute Licklär ∶ Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai
Born 1944
Continuation of the Germanised branch of the LeClaire line; mother of the modern restoration.
Link to Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble: LeClaire Family Archive
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Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble ∶ Ian Dennis Noble
Born 1966
A daughter of the House of LeClaire; the continuation of the bloodline through the Licklär branch, and mother of Brandon Noble LeClaire. Her documented descent runs from Jean Pierre Le Claire and Jacqueline Van der Vyvere through their younger son Louis Jean Baptiste Leclaire, brother of Général Théodore François Joseph Leclaire, and the successive Le Clair, Leclair and Licklär generations of the Rhineland.
Link to Brandon Noble LeClaire: LeClaire Family Archive
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Born 1995 · Head of the House of LeClaire · Founder of the House of Greenland-LeClaire
Modern representative and present head of the House of LeClaire, one of the historic noble and moneyed houses of the Duchy of Lorraine, and, by his 22 May 2027 marriage to Abigail Jane Greenland, founder of the House of Greenland-LeClaire. He has formally restored the ancestral surname LeClaire to continue an eight-hundred-year documented lineage that includes the Sieurs de Pulligny, Auditors of the Chamber of Accounts of Nancy, advancers of capital to the Dukes of Lorraine, and his fifth-great-granduncle Général de Division Théodore François Joseph Leclaire, Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Present custodian of the House