Ancien Régime
Unknown Le Clerc
c. 1630 – c. 1700
Unrecorded son of Laurent Le Clerc de Pulligny; the bridge generation between the seventeenth-century Pulligny goldsmith household and the documented Leclaire line of the eighteenth century.
Family connection
Parents. Son of Laurent Le Clerc de Pulligny (1595–1691).
Children. Father of Nicolas Le Clerc (c. 1665 – after 1705).
Position in the Direct Line
Unknown Le Clerc is a collateral figure of the wider House and is not part of the continuous bloodline shown on the home-page pedigree. Their branch descends from Alexandre II Le Clerc in the direct line.
Historical context
No baptismal or marriage record has yet been recovered for this generation, but the chronology — Laurent (b. 1595) to Nicolas Le Clerc (b. c. 1665) — requires an intervening father active in the mid-seventeenth century. He would have lived through the Thirty Years' War in Lorraine, the French occupation under Louis XIV and the slow re-stabilisation of the Duchy.
He is preserved in the pedigree as the link by which the craftsman branch of Laurent continues into the Nicolas / Pierre-Nicolas household, and from there to the Leclaire family proper.
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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