Ancien Régime
Nicolas Le Clerc
1624 – 1660
Lorraine
Son of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny and father of Alexandre II Le Clerc; the generation through which the direct ancestral line is carried across the mid-seventeenth century in Lorraine.
Family connection
Parents. Son of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny (1587 – after 1659), Knight of Saint Mark.
Spouse. Anne Fériet de Lezay (1626 – 1678).
Children. Father of Alexandre II Le Clerc (1652–1695), Minor Lord of Lorraine.
Position in the Direct Line
Generation 8 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
Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny - This generation
Nicolas Le Clerc - Succeeded by
Alexandre II Le Clerc
Historical context
Nicolas Le Clerc (1624–1660) belongs to the generation that carried the family through the most turbulent decades of the seventeenth century — the Thirty Years' War, the French occupations of Lorraine and the long pressure of Louis XIII and Louis XIV on the Duchy.
He stands between his father Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny, Knight of Saint Mark, and his son Alexandre II Le Clerc, Minor Lord of Lorraine, by whom the direct ancestral line passes into the eighteenth-century Le Claire family from which the modern House descends.
Significance & legacy
Nicolas is the quiet generation through whom the direct line continues from the Knights of Saint Mark of 1623 to the Minor Lords of Lorraine of the later seventeenth century.
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.
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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/nicolas-le-clerc