Medieval
Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny
c. 1410 – c. 1465
Pulligny, Lorraine
Sieur de Pulligny
Ennobled by letters patent on 3 January 1464. Through him the House enters the recognised noble and seigneurial order of Lorraine.
Family connection
Parents. Son of Colin Le Clerc and Marguerite Petitgout (recorded in earlier genealogies as 'N. Petitgout'), daughter of Richart dit le Favart Petitgout, Mayor of Mirecourt, and his wife Hauvix; grandson of Mengin Le Clerc and Catherine de Gircourt.
Spouse. N. de Pulligny.
Position in the Direct Line
Generation 3 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
Colin Le Clerc - This generation
Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny - Succeeded by
Mengin II Le Clerc
Historical context
Jehan Leclerc de Pulligney represents the family's formal passage from influential civic society into recognised nobility. A bourgeois of Nancy by 1429, he operated within the legal and administrative world of the Duchy of Lorraine.
He appears in litigation as procurator or legal representative in a dispute involving Guiot Poignant, the marshal of Aspremont, Henri d'Ogéviller, lord of Domrémy and Greux, and the inhabitants of those villages — placing him in the politically charged landscape associated with Jeanne d'Arc.
His ennoblement by Jean II of Lorraine on 3 January 1464 marks one of the defining moments in the family's rise. The seigneurial designation of Pulligny, granted with the patent, would be borne by the principal line of the House for the next three centuries.
Known records & evidence
- Documented record — ennoblement act of 3 January 1464 by Jean II, Duke of Lorraine.
- Documented record — litigation concerning Domrémy, Greux and the marshal of Aspremont.
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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.
- Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France) ↗
Digitised primary sources of the BnF, including charters and registers of Lorraine.
- Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle ↗
Parish, notarial and seigneurial registers for Nancy and the former Duchy of Lorraine.
- Archives départementales des Vosges ↗
Parish and notarial records covering the Pulligny / Xirocourt area.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France — Catalogue général ↗
Bibliographic catalogue of printed and manuscript holdings.
Canonical URL: https://leclaire.co.uk/people/jehan-leclerc-de-pulligny