Modern
Bernhardine Licklär
1920, 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.
The Name Through History
A single continuous line, recorded under many forms as it passed through Lorraine, France, the Rhineland and Britain.
Von Mengen
before 1310
Lords of Dalheim — Rhenish-Lorrain ministerial nobility
Moingins dis li clers
c. 1310 – 1400
Lorrain vernacular byname, 1355 charter
Le Clerc · Leclerc
15th – 17th c.
French-Lorraine seigneurial line
Le Claire
late 17th – 18th c.
Transitional French spelling of the direct line
Leclaire
18th – 19th c.
Napoleonic-era French form
Le Clair · Leclair
19th c.
Rhineland branch, German civil registers
Licklär
1880 – 1970
Germanised orthography, 20th-century Rhineland
LeClaire
21st c.
Restored British form, House of Greenland-LeClaire
Family connection
Parents. Daughter of Julius Leclair (1880–1961) and Elisabeth Fitze (1882–1924).
Children. Mother of Monika Ute Licklär (b. 1944), through whom the direct bloodline continues.
Position in the Direct Line
Generation 16 of 19 in the continuous bloodline shown on the home-page pedigree, from Mengin Le Clerc of Lorraine (c. 1355) to Brandon Noble LeClaire.
Generation 16·Licklär
Bernhardine Licklär
1920
Historical context
Bernhardine Licklär (1920–1978) represents the generation in which the family surname had been transcribed phonetically into Licklär by Rhineland civil registrars, a quiet, generational erasure of the family's documented French origins.
She had one daughter, Monika Ute Licklär, by Jan Jagt, to whom she was not married. Through Monika the bloodline passes into the contemporary generation in which the French ancestral form of the surname has been formally restored.
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.
- Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg ↗
State Archive of Baden-Württemberg, civil records for the Rhineland Licklär line.
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek ↗
Federated catalogue of German libraries, archives and museums.
Canonical URL: https://leclaire.co.uk/people/bernhardine-licklar