The Armorial
HERALDRY EXPLORER
Every coat of arms recorded for the House of LeClaire and its allied houses, granted, inherited or assumed across six centuries of Lorraine, Alsace, the Rhineland and the modern era. Click any shield for blazon, symbolism, estates and connected branches.
Branch
Category
Principal line · 1464
Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny
c. 1410, c. 1465
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.
Principal line · 1512
Claude Leclerc de Pulligny
c. 1485, 1562
Or, a leopard gules armed, langued and crowned azure, on a chief of the same charged with three bezants or.
Variant · 1530
Claude Leclerc de Pulligny
c. 1485, 1562
Or, a lion rampant gules crowned azure, on a chief azure three bezants or; with crest of a demi-lion gules issuant from a torse and helm, mantled gules and azure.
Principal line · 1623
Jean Le Clerc
1586, 1633
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.
Principal line · 1623
Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny
1585, after 1659
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.
Principal line · 1684
François 'Pierre' Le Claire
1684, ?
Or, a leopard rampant gules armed and langued azure; on a chief azure three bezants or.
Principal line · 1718
Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur
1718, 1793
Or, a leopard rampant gules armed and langued azure; on a chief azure three bezants or.
Principal line · 1726
Jacqueline Antoinette Marie Catherine Van der Vyvere
1726, 1789
Azure, three swords argent hilted or, in bend.
Principal line · 2027
Brandon Noble LeClaire
1995, ?
Arms: Or a Panther incensed passant guardant Gules spotted Or armed langued and crowned with an Ancient Crown Azure on a Chief Gules three Roundels Or. Crest: Out of an Ancient Crown Azure A Panther's Gamb Gules semy of Roundels holding a Roundel Or. Motto: De Nomine et Sanguine.
Allied house · 2027
Abigail Jane Greenland
Arms: Argent, three saltires Vert within a bordure engrailed party Or and Vert. Crest: A dexter arm armoured and embowed Or, the hand Proper sustaining a grenade fired Proper. Motto: Nec Timeo Nec Sperno.
Allied house
N. de Pulligny
Azure, a lion argent armed, langued and crowned or.
Allied house
Catherine de Trèves de Xirocourt
c. 1515, 1581
Or, a pile (triangle) gules between three crescents azure, two in chief and one in base.
Allied house
Jacqueline Antoinette Catherine Van der Vyvere
1726, 1789
Azure, three swords argent hilted or, in bend.
Principal line
Anthony Reginald Kwok Cheung Tai
A personal anchored character, a stylised Chinese mark used by Anthony Tai as a private device. Not a formal heraldic blazon, but recorded here as his personal mark.