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.