Alexandre II Le Clerc

Parents. Son of Nicolas Le Clerc (1624–1660); grandson of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny, Knight of Saint Mark.

Spouse. Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant (1655 – 1698).

Children. Father of François 'Pierre' Le Claire (1684–?), through whom the direct ancestral line continues into the eighteenth-century Le Claire family.

Alexandre II Le Clerc (1652–1695) is identified in later family records as a minor Lord of Lorraine and an important bridge figure between the historic Le Clerc de Pulligny family and the subsequent Le Claire branches.

His life spans the high reign of Louis XIV and the long French pressure on the Duchy of Lorraine that would culminate in the formal annexation of 1766. By his generation the wider Le Clerc family was beginning the slow social transition out of the great ducal offices held by his great-grandfather Claude II and into the more modest seigneurial and bourgeois standing of the later Lorraine line.

Through Alexandre II the direct ancestral line passes to François 'Pierre' Le Claire (1684–?), in whose generation the family surname is consistently recorded for the first time under the Le Claire form.

Alexandre II is one of the key transitional figures linking the historic Pulligny family to the later Le Claire branch from which the modern House descends.