Generated from the pedigree

Imperial and Lorraine Descent

The recorded descent of Brandon Noble LeClaire from Charlemagne, through the Carolingians, the house of Ardennes, the comital house of Metz, Parroye, Haute-Pierre, Toullon and Gircourt, into the Le Clerc line of Lorraine.

This route is computed directly from the recorded ancestry graph rather than written by hand, so it always reflects the current state of the pedigree. It runs through 42 named individuals; each is explorable in turn, upwards through either parent.

1
Charlemagne
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.
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2
Louis the Pious
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.
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3
Charles II, Holy Roman Emperor
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.
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4
Louis II, King of West Francia
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.
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5
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.
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6
Cunigunda
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.
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7
Gozlin of Bidgau
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.
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8
Godfrey "the Captive" of Verdun
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.
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9
Gerberge of Verdun
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.
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10
Gottfried of Metz
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.
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11
Simon de Parroye
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.
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12
Sicard (Simon II) de Parroye
Dates not established
Styled in some reconstructions "de Metz"; father of Odoin I de Froville in the working pedigree.
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13
Odoin I de Froville
Dates not established
Father of Odon II de Froville in the working Froville and Parroye pedigree.
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14
Odon II de Froville
Dates not established
Father of Simon de Froville in the working Froville and Parroye pedigree.
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15
Simon de Froville
Dates not established
Husband of Mathilde de Parroy and father of Simon I de Parroye.
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16
Simon I de Parroye
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.
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Albert de Parroye
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.
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Albert de Haute-Pierre
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).
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Albert de Haute-Pierre
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.
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20
Liébaud de Haute-Pierre
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.
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Marguerite de Haute-Pierre
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.
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22
Thiébaud (Liébaud) de Toullon
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.
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23
Catherine de Haute-Pierre
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.
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24
Catherine de Gircourt
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.
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25
Colin Le Clerc
Dates not established · Échevin
Échevin, a civic figure within the early Lorraine line, reflecting the family's early standing in municipal and regional life.
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26
Jehan Leclerc 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.
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27
Mengin II Le Clerc
Dates not established
Continuation of the Pulligny line, an important bridge between the early civic family and the later noble branches.
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28
Claude Leclerc de Pulligny
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.
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29
Claude II Leclerc 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.
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30
Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny
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.
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31
Nicolas Le Clerc
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.
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32
Alexandre II Le Clerc
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.
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33
François 'Pierre' Le Claire
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.
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34
Jean Pierre Le Claire, Très Noble Seigneur
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.
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35
'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire
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.
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36
Johann Baptiste Le Clair
Born 1796
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
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37
Gottfried Leclair
1842 to 1915
A nineteenth-century representative of the Leclair spelling within the family's period of German-speaking assimilation.
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38
Julius Leclair
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.
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Bernhardine Licklär
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.
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40
Monika Ute Licklär
Born 1944
Continuation of the Germanised branch of the LeClaire line; mother of the modern restoration.
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41
Andrea Michaela Tai-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.
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42
Brandon Noble LeClaire
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.
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