Forebear of Mengin Le Clerc
Henricus de Maingen
c. 1180
Earliest known member of the Lords of Mengen recorded in the regional charter tradition.
Henricus de Maingen appears around 1180 in the regional charter tradition as an early member of the Mengen family. His record places the family within the ministerial nobility of Lorraine more than a century before the first surviving Le Clerc documents. He is presented here as research context rather than as a confirmed ancestor of the LeClaire line.