Le Claire

Contemporary

Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble

⚭Ian Dennis Noble

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.

The Name Through History

A single continuous line, recorded under many forms as it passed through Lorraine, France, the Rhineland and Britain.

  1. De Parroye / de Haute-Pierre

    before 1310

    Seigneurial houses of Lorraine from which the maternal ancestry descends

  2. Moingins dis li clers

    c. 1310 – 1400

    Lorrain vernacular byname, 1355 charter

  3. Le Clerc · Leclerc

    15th – 17th c.

    French-Lorraine seigneurial line

  4. Le Claire

    late 17th – 18th c.

    Transitional French spelling of the direct line

  5. Leclaire

    18th – 19th c.

    Napoleonic-era French form

  6. Le Clair · Leclair

    19th c.

    Rhineland branch, German civil registers

  7. Licklär

    1880 – 1970

    Germanised orthography, 20th-century Rhineland

  8. LeClaire

    21st c.

    Restored British form, House of Greenland-LeClaire

Family connection

Spouse. Ian Dennis Noble.

Husband of Andrea Tai-Noble and stepfather to Brandon Noble LeClaire. Ian Dennis Noble is shown here as a present-day family connection only; he is not a member of the LeClaire bloodline and does not appear within the direct ancestral pedigree.

Position in the Direct Line

Generation 18 of 19 in the continuous bloodline shown on the home-page pedigree, from Mengin Le Clerc of Lorraine (c. 1355) to Brandon Noble LeClaire.

  1. Generation 15·Leclair

    Julius Leclair

    1880

  2. Generation 16·Licklär

    Bernhardine Licklär

    1920

  3. Generation 17·Licklär

    Monika Ute Licklär

    1944

  4. Generation 18·Tai-Noble

    Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble

    1966

  5. Generation 19·LeClaire

    Brandon Noble LeClaire

    1995

Historical context

Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble, born in 1966, is a daughter of the House of LeClaire by direct descent through the Licklär branch. She is the mother of Brandon Noble LeClaire and the immediate predecessor in the line through which the family name was restored to its French form.

Through her, the maternal bloodline of the House passes from the German-speaking Licklär generations to the modern restoration of the ancestral French surname LeClaire in her son Brandon.

Her documented lineage descends from Jean Pierre Le Claire (1718–1793) and Jacqueline Van der Vyvere (1726–1789) through their younger son Louis Jean Baptiste Leclaire (1753–1825), then Johann Baptiste Le Clair, Gottfried Leclair (1842–1915), Julius Leclair (1880–1961) and Elisabeth Fitze (1882–1924), Bernhardine Licklär (1920–1978) and Monika Ute Licklär (b. 1944). The military branch of Général Théodore François Joseph Leclaire (1752–1811), brother of Louis, is a collateral line, distinguished, but not the line of descent of the present House.

Known records & evidence

Biographical, parish, notarial, seigneurial and military records of Lorraine, Alsace and the Rhineland, preserved in the LeClaire Family Historical Archive.[1],[2]

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Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble in the line

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Explore their ancestry

2 generations of the documented bloodline

  1. 1
    Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble1966, ?

    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.

  2. 2
    Brandon Noble LeClaire1995, ?

    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.

Related entities

Other documented people, family branches, places and armorial records connected to this entry in the archive.

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Citations & sources

Each numbered reference below supports a specific statement on this page. The evidence label records how firmly that reference attests the point.

  1. 1.Parish, notarial and seigneurial registers of Lorraine, Alsace and the Rhineland↩

    Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle, de la Moselle, du Bas-Rhin; Landesarchiv

    Contemporary Record
    Full reference: Parish, notarial and seigneurial registers of Lorraine, Alsace and the Rhineland, Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle, de la Moselle, du Bas-Rhin; Landesarchiv
  2. 2.Published genealogies of the Le Clerc de Pulligny and Leclaire lines↩

    Armorials and genealogical works of record for Lorraine

    Published Genealogy
    Full reference: Published genealogies of the Le Clerc de Pulligny and Leclaire lines, Armorials and genealogical works of record for Lorraine
  3. 3.↩

    House of LeClaire

    Published Genealogy
    Full reference: LeClaire Family Historical Archive, House of LeClaire — https://leclaire.co.uk/historical-archive
  4. 4.↩

    French National Archives, sovereign and noble records of the Ancien Régime and after.

    Published Scholarly Research
    Full reference: Archives Nationales (France), French National Archives, sovereign and noble records of the Ancien Régime and after. — https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/
  5. 5.↩

    Genealogy platform; use only entries that themselves cite primary records.

    Published Scholarly Research
    Full reference: Geneanet, Genealogy platform; use only entries that themselves cite primary records. — https://www.geneanet.org/
  6. 6.↩

    Open-licensed historical images, maps and document scans.

    Published Scholarly Research
    Full reference: Wikimedia Commons, Open-licensed historical images, maps and document scans. — https://commons.wikimedia.org/
  7. 7.↩

    Charles d'Hozier's Armorial général de France (1696), digitised by the BnF.

    Published Scholarly Research
    Full reference: BnF, Armorial général de France (d'Hozier), Charles d'Hozier's Armorial général de France (1696), digitised by the BnF. — https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8470253q
  8. 8.↩

    Open-licensed reproductions of French armorial bearings.

    Published Scholarly Research
    Full reference: Wikimedia Commons, Heraldry of France, Open-licensed reproductions of French armorial bearings. — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Heraldry_of_France

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