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Generation Timeline of the House of LeClaire

Every generation of the LeClaire line from Wigeric of Lotharingia to the present day, with the marriages, deaths, offices and inheritances recorded for each one.

37 generations, oldest first. Each entry gathers what the archive actually records for that generation: the marriage that carried the line forward, the offices and holdings, the documented acts of inheritance and property, and the deaths. Husband and wife share a generation; a wife is never listed as a generation of her own. Where a date is uncertain it is written as the record leaves it, with c. for about and fl. for the years a person is known to have been active.

Ardennes · Verdun · Metz · Parroye · Haute-Pierre · Toullon · Gircourt · Le Clerc

Ardennes
1
Wigeric of Lotharingia ∶ Cunigunda
Died before 922 · Published Genealogy
Count in the Bidgau and count palatine of Lotharingia; founder of the house of Ardennes and father of Gozlin.
Marriage
Married Cunigunda.
Office and title
Count in the Bidgau
Office and title
Count palatine of Lotharingia
Inheritance and property · after 922
The Ardennes inheritance divided between his sons: Gozlin, from whom this line descends through Verdun; Siegfried, founder of the Luxembourg line; and Frederick, founder of the ducal house of Upper Lorraine.
Death · before 922
Death of Wigeric of Lotharingia.
2
Gozlin of Bidgau ∶ Oda of Metz
c. 910 to c. 943 · Published Genealogy
Count in the Bidgau and the Ardennes, c. 910 to c. 943; father of Godfrey the Captive.
Birth · c. 910
Birth of Gozlin of Bidgau.
Marriage
Married Oda of Metz.
Office and title
Count in the Bidgau
Office and title
Count in the Ardennes
Death · c. 943
Death of Gozlin of Bidgau.
Death · c. 967
Death of Oda of Metz.
3
Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun ∶ Mathilde of Saxony
c. 935 to c. 1005 · Contemporary Record
Count of Verdun, c. 935 to c. 1005; husband of Mathilde of Saxony and father of Gerberge of Verdun.
Birth · c. 935
Birth of Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun.
Marriage
Married Mathilde of Saxony.
Office and title
Count of Verdun
Office and title
Margrave of Antwerp
Documentary record · 985
Taken prisoner in the struggle for Verdun, the captivity from which his byname comes. Thietmar of Merseburg records the family within a generation.
Death · c. 1005
Death of Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun.
Death · c. 1008
Death of Mathilde of Saxony.
Verdun
4
Gerberge of Verdun ∶ Folmar of Metz
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
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.
Marriage
Married Folmar of Metz.
Death · 1029
Death of Folmar of Metz.
Metz
5
Gottfried of Metz ∶ Judith of Luxembourg
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
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.
Marriage
Married Judith of Luxembourg.
Parroye
6
Simon de Parroye
Dates not established · Under Active Research
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.
No dated events are recorded for this generation beyond the descent itself.
7
Sicard (Simon II) de Parroye
Dates not established · Under Active Research
Styled in some reconstructions "de Metz"; father of Odoin I de Froville in the working pedigree.
No dated events are recorded for this generation beyond the descent itself.
8
Odoin I de Froville
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
Father of Odon II de Froville in the working Froville and Parroye pedigree.
No dated events are recorded for this generation beyond the descent itself.
9
Odon II de Froville ∶ Adélaïde de Neuviller
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
Father of Simon de Froville in the working Froville and Parroye pedigree.
Marriage
Married Adélaïde de Neuviller.
10
Simon de Froville ∶ Mathilde de Parroy
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
Husband of Mathilde de Parroy and father of Simon I de Parroye.
Marriage
Married Mathilde de Parroy.
11
Simon I de Parroye ∶ Mathilde
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
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.
Marriage
Married Mathilde.
12
Albert de Parroye
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
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.
No dated events are recorded for this generation beyond the descent itself.
Haute-Pierre
13
Albert de Haute-Pierre
c. 1172 to c. 1222 · Published Genealogy
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).
Birth · c. 1172
Birth of Albert de Haute-Pierre.
Office and title
Chevalier
Death · c. 1222
Death of Albert de Haute-Pierre.
14
Albert de Haute-Pierre
Died 20 October 1231 · Published Genealogy
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.
Office and title
Seigneur de Haute-Pierre
Death · 20 October 1231
Death of Albert de Haute-Pierre.
15
Liébaud de Haute-Pierre ∶ Isabelle
Died 1281 · Published Genealogy
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.
Marriage
Married Isabelle.
Office and title
Chevalier
Office and title
Seigneur de Froville
Office and title
Held Froville as chevalier and seigneur, the holding by which the Haute-Pierre branch is identified in the record.
Death · 1281
Death of Liébaud de Haute-Pierre.
16
Marguerite de Haute-Pierre ∶ Jean II de Toullon
Dates not established · Published Genealogy
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.
Marriage
Married Jean II de Toullon.
Toullon
17
Thiébaud (Liébaud) de Toullon
late 13th century to c. 1343 · Published Genealogy
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.
Birth · late 13th century
Birth of Thiébaud (Liébaud) de Toullon.
Death · c. 1343
Death of Thiébaud (Liébaud) de Toullon.
Haute-Pierre
18
Catherine de Haute-Pierre ∶ Jacques de Gircourt
Born late 13th / early 14th century · Published Genealogy
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.
Birth · late 13th / early 14th century
Birth of Catherine de Haute-Pierre.
Marriage
Married Jacques de Gircourt.
Documentary record
Jacques de Gircourt: A vassal reference of 1285 attaches to the Gircourt name but not to him: it belongs to an older bearer of the name, and no birth year is asserted for him.
Gircourt
19
Catherine de Gircourt ∶ Mengin Le Clerc
c. 1320 to after 1355 · Published Genealogy
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.
Birth · c. 1320
Birth of Catherine de Gircourt.
Marriage
Married Mengin Le Clerc.
Inheritance and property · 1355
Mengin Le Clerc: Sold to Jean de Nomeny two inherited portions of the estate of the late Philippin de Girecourt, écuyer, at Folz beneath the castle of Faucompierre, for 26 small gold florins. This is the earliest surviving act of the family.
Death · after 1355
Death of Catherine de Gircourt.
Death · after 1355
Death of Mengin Le Clerc.
Le Clerc
20
Colin Le Clerc ∶ Marguerite Petitgout
Dates not established · LeClaire Family Archive
Échevin, a civic figure within the early Lorraine line, reflecting the family's early standing in municipal and regional life.
Marriage
Married Marguerite Petitgout.
Office and title
Échevin
21
Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ N. de Pulligny
c. 1410 to c. 1465 · LeClaire Family Archive
Ennobled by letters patent on 3 January 1464. Through him the House enters the recognised noble and seigneurial order of Lorraine.
Birth · c. 1410
Birth of Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny.
Marriage
Married N. de Pulligny.
Office and title
Sieur de Pulligny
Heraldry · 3 January 1464
Ennobled by by letters patent. Through this act the House of Le Clerc enters the recognised noble and seigneurial order of the Duchy of Lorraine.
Heraldry
Arms borne: Gules, two fesses or intertwined with seven bezants argent, placed 3, 3 and 1. Crest: a dexter hand vested in gold holding a human head with long hair and beard of the same in its natural form, and a long ermine banner hanging from the said dexter hand.
Death · c. 1465
Death of Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny.
22
Mengin II Le Clerc ∶ Mengette
Dates not established · LeClaire Family Archive
Continuation of the Pulligny line, an important bridge between the early civic family and the later noble branches.
Marriage
Married Mengette.
23
Claude Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourt
c. 1485 to 1562 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · c. 1485
Birth of Claude Leclerc de Pulligny.
Marriage
Married Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourt.
Office and title
Valet de Chambre to Duke Antoine of Lorraine
Office and title
Seigneur of Pulligny, Ceintrey, Voinémont, Malaucourt-sur-Seille, Chamagne, Érize-Saint-Dizier and Saint-Dizier
Heraldry · 1512
Ennobled by with his brother Thierry Le Clerc, by letters patent of the Duke of Lorraine. Claude and Thierry, brothers and sons of Mengin II Le Clerc and Mengette his wife, were ennobled in 1512, a second formal grant of nobility to the House.
Heraldry
Arms borne: Or, a leopard gules armed, langued and crowned azure, on a chief of the same charged with three bezants or.
Death · 1562
Death of Claude Leclerc de Pulligny.
Death · 1581
Death of Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourt.
24
Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ Claudon Galland de Pulligny
1532 to 1598 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1532
Birth of Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny.
Marriage
Married Claudon Galland de Pulligny.
Office and title
Argentier of the Duke of Lorraine
Office and title
Treasurer of the Company of the Count of Vaudémont
Office and title
Valet de Chambre of Duke Charles III
Office and title
Secretary to Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, Princess of Tarente
Office and title
Seigneur in part of Pulligny
Death · 1598
Death of Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny.
25
Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny ∶ Madeleine Platel du Plateau
1585 to after 1659 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1585
Birth of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny.
Marriage
Married Madeleine Platel du Plateau.
Office and title
Knight of the Order of Saint Mark (Republic of Venice)
Office and title
Restored to hereditary nobility, 28 May 1623
Office and title
Secretary to Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, Princess of Taranto
Office and title
Valet de Chambre and Court Musician of the Duke of Lorraine
Office and title
Resident of Érize-Saint-Dizier
Heraldry
Arms borne: Per fess: in chief, on a field barry, a griffin segreant holding an open book; in base, two swords in saltire, points upward, pommels and hilts to base. Within an ornate Baroque cartouche.
Death · after 1659
Death of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny.
26
Nicolas Le Clerc ∶ Anne Fériet de Lézé
1624 to 1660 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1624
Birth of Nicolas Le Clerc.
Marriage
Married Anne Fériet de Lézé.
Death · 1660
Death of Nicolas Le Clerc.
27
Alexandre II Le Clerc ∶ Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant
1652 to 1695 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1652
Birth of Alexandre II Le Clerc.
Marriage
Married Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant.
Office and title
Minor Lord of Lorraine
Death · 1695
Death of Alexandre II Le Clerc.
Death · 1698
Death of Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant.
28
François 'Pierre' Le Claire ∶ Marie-Anne Du Moine
Born 1684 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1684
Birth of François 'Pierre' Le Claire.
Marriage
Married Marie-Anne Du Moine.
Heraldry
Arms borne: Or, a leopard rampant gules armed and langued azure; on a chief azure three bezants or.
29
Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur ∶ Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere
1718 to 1793 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1718
Birth of Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur.
Marriage
Married Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere.
Heraldry
Arms borne: Or, a leopard rampant gules armed and langued azure; on a chief azure three bezants or.
Death · 1793
Death of Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur.
Death · 1789
Death of Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere.
30
'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire ∶ Elisabeth J. Grégoire
24 June 1754 to 29 July 1825 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 24 June 1754
Birth of 'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire.
Marriage
Married Elisabeth J. Grégoire.
Death · 29 July 1825
Death of 'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire.
31
Johann Baptiste Le Clair ∶ Gertrud L. A. de Weels
Born 1796 · LeClaire Family Archive
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
Birth · 1796
Birth of Johann Baptiste Le Clair.
Marriage
Married Gertrud L. A. de Weels.
32
Gottfried Leclair ∶ Maria E. Maßmann
1842 to 1915 · LeClaire Family Archive
A nineteenth-century representative of the Leclair spelling within the family's period of German-speaking assimilation.
Birth · 1842
Birth of Gottfried Leclair.
Marriage
Married Maria E. Maßmann.
Death · 1915
Death of Gottfried Leclair.
33
Julius Leclair ∶ Elisabeth Fitze
1880 to 1961 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1880
Birth of Julius Leclair.
Marriage
Married Elisabeth Fitze.
Death · 1961
Death of Julius Leclair.
34
Bernhardine Licklär
1920 to 1978 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1920
Birth of Bernhardine Licklär.
Death · 1978
Death of Bernhardine Licklär.
35
Monika Ute Licklär ∶ Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai
Born 1944 · LeClaire Family Archive
Continuation of the Germanised branch of the LeClaire line; mother of the modern restoration.
Birth · 1944
Birth of Monika Ute Licklär.
Marriage
Married Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai.
36
Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble ∶ Ian Dennis Noble
Born 1966 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1966
Birth of Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble.
Marriage
Married Ian Dennis Noble.
37
Brandon Noble LeClaire ∶ Abigail Jane Greenland
Born 1995 · LeClaire Family Archive
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.
Birth · 1995
Birth of Brandon Noble LeClaire.
Marriage · 22 May 2027
Married 22 May 2027.
Office and title
Head of the House of LeClaire
Office and title
Founder of the House of Greenland-LeClaire
Heraldry
Arms borne: Arms: Or a Panther incensed passant guardant Gules spotted Or armed langued and crowned with an Ancient Crown flory Azure on a Chief Gules three Roundels Or. Crest: Out of an Ancient Crown flory Azure A Panther's Gamb Gules semy of Roundels holding a Roundel Or. Mantling: Gules doubled Or. Motto: DE NOMINE ET SANGUINE.

Generation Timeline of the House of LeClaire

Wigeric of Lotharingia ∶ Cunigunda

Gozlin of Bidgau ∶ Oda of Metz

Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun ∶ Mathilde of Saxony

Gerberge of Verdun ∶ Folmar of Metz

Gottfried of Metz ∶ Judith of Luxembourg

Odon II de Froville ∶ Adélaïde de Neuviller

Simon de Froville ∶ Mathilde de Parroy

Simon I de Parroye ∶ Mathilde

Liébaud de Haute-Pierre ∶ Isabelle

Marguerite de Haute-Pierre ∶ Jean II de Toullon

Catherine de Haute-Pierre ∶ Jacques de Gircourt

Catherine de Gircourt ∶ Mengin Le Clerc

Colin Le Clerc ∶ Marguerite Petitgout

Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ N. de Pulligny

Mengin II Le Clerc ∶ Mengette

Claude Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourt

Claude II Leclerc de Pulligny ∶ Claudon Galland de Pulligny

Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny ∶ Madeleine Platel du Plateau

Nicolas Le Clerc ∶ Anne Fériet de Lézé

Alexandre II Le Clerc ∶ Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant

François 'Pierre' Le Claire ∶ Marie-Anne Du Moine

Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur ∶ Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van den Vyvere

'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire ∶ Elisabeth J. Grégoire

Johann Baptiste Le Clair ∶ Gertrud L. A. de Weels

Gottfried Leclair ∶ Maria E. Maßmann

Julius Leclair ∶ Elisabeth Fitze

Monika Ute Licklär ∶ Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai

Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble ∶ Ian Dennis Noble

Brandon Noble LeClaire ∶ Abigail Jane Greenland