Contemporary
Andrea Michaela Tai-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.
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.
- Preceded by
Monika Ute Licklär - This generation
Andrea Michaela Tai-Noble - Succeeded by
Brandon Noble LeClaire
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.
Related entities
Other documented people, family branches, places and armorial records connected to this entry in the archive.
Related families
Elsewhere in the archive
Sources & references
Authoritative archives, libraries and reference collections that hold — or can be used to verify — records of this entity. External sources are cited only where they genuinely support the historical record; not every claim on this page is yet matched to a digitised primary source.
- Parish, notarial, seigneurial and military records of Lorraine, Alsace and the Rhineland preserved in the LeClaire Family Historical Archive.
- Archives Nationales (France) ↗
French National Archives — sovereign and noble records of the Ancien Régime and after.
- Geneanet ↗
Genealogy platform; use only entries that themselves cite primary records.
- Wikimedia Commons ↗
Open-licensed historical images, maps and document scans.
- BnF — Armorial général de France (d'Hozier) ↗
Charles d'Hozier's Armorial général de France (1696), digitised by the BnF.
- Wikimedia Commons — Heraldry of France ↗
Open-licensed reproductions of French armorial bearings.
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