Lorraine

Mengin Le Clerc

c. 1310, after 1355

The earliest medieval Le Clerc generation of the canonical direct sequence; husband of Catherine de Gircourt and father of Colin Le Clerc, recorded in Lorraine in 1355.

Colin Le Clerc

Échevin, a civic figure within the early Lorraine line, reflecting the family's early standing in municipal and regional life.

Nicolas Le Clerc

1624, 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.

Alexandre II Le Clerc

1652, 1695

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.

Nicolas Le Clerc

c. 1665, after 1705

Transitional generation linking the historic Le Clerc de Pulligny family to the later Leclaire branch, bridging the noble and administrative circles of seventeenth-century Lorraine with the documented eighteenth-century Leclaire lineage.

Pierre-Nicolas Le Clerc

1692, 1762

One of the earliest clearly documented members of the later family branch, the generation that bridges the historic Le Clerc de Pulligny lineage and the emergence of the Leclaire surname in eighteenth-century records.

Pierre Leclaire

c. 1680, c. 1730

Represents the emergence of the later Leclaire surname whilst preserving the family's ancestral roots in Lorraine. Direct ancestor of the modern House through his son Louis Jean Baptiste Leclaire.