How Did I Get Here?
From 'Louis to Brandon
8 generations of the documented bloodline.
- 1'Louis Benjamin' Jean Baptiste Alexis Leclaire24 June 1754 – 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.
- 2Johann Baptiste Le Clair1796 – ?
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
- 3Gottfried Leclair1842 – 1915
A nineteenth-century representative of the Leclair spelling within the family's period of German-speaking assimilation.
- 4Julius Leclair1880 – 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.
- 5Bernhardine Licklär1920 – 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.
- 6Monika Ute Licklär1944 – ?
Continuation of the Germanised branch of the LeClaire line; mother of the modern restoration.
- 7Andrea 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.
- 8Brandon 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.
