From François 'Pierre' Le Claire to today

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.

Arms: Arms of the Le Claire line, as carried into the eighteenth century…

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.

Arms: Arms of the Le Claire line, as carried into the eighteenth century…

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.

A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.

A nineteenth-century representative of the Leclair spelling within the family's period of German-speaking assimilation.

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.

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.

Continuation of the Germanised branch of the LeClaire line; mother of the modern restoration.

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.

Head of the House of 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.

Arms: The Armorial Bearings of Brandon Noble LeClaire — to be marshalled with Greenland from 22 May 2027…