Ancien Régime
Alexandre II Le Clerc
1652 – 1695
Lorraine
Minor Lord of Lorraine
⚭ Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant1655 – 1698
- Estate & seigneury
- Noble marriage
Minor Lord of Lorraine and key transitional figure linking the historic Le Clerc de Pulligny family to the subsequent Le Claire branches from which the modern House descends.
Alexandre II Le Clerc (1652–1695) is identified in later family records as a minor Lord of Lorraine and an important bridge figure between the historic Le Clerc de Pulligny family and the subsequent Le Claire branches.
His life spans the high reign of Louis XIV and the long French pressure on the Duchy of Lorraine that would culminate in the formal annexation of 1766. By his generation the wider Le Clerc family was beginning the slow social transition out of the great ducal offices held by his great-grandfather Claude II and into the more modest seigneurial and bourgeois standing of the later Lorraine line.
Through Alexandre II the direct ancestral line passes to François 'Pierre' Le Claire (1684–?), in whose generation the family surname is consistently recorded for the first time under the Le Claire form.
Biographical Record
Parents+
Son of Nicolas Le Clerc (1624–1660); grandson of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny, Knight of Saint Mark.
Children+
Father of François 'Pierre' Le Claire (1684–?), through whom the direct ancestral line continues into the eighteenth-century Le Claire family.
Family Significance+
Alexandre II is one of the key transitional figures linking the historic Pulligny family to the later Le Claire branch from which the modern House descends.
Sources & Evidence+
- Genealogical source tradition — later Le Clerc and Le Claire family records identifying Alexandre II as the bridge generation.
Direct Line
10 generations to Brandon Noble LeClaire
Story Mode
Their chapter in the dynastyAlexandre II Le Clerc belongs to the Ancien Régime. Born around 1652 in Lorraine, Minor Lord of Lorraine. They stand at generation 9 of 19 in the documented bloodline that leads to the present House of Greenland-LeClaire.
The ancien régime shaped every aspect of Alexandre's world — its laws of inheritance, its wars, its faith and its limits.
Marriage to Marguerite Thiery de Saint-Baussant bound the line to a wider noble network. Their children carried the name into the next generation.
In France, Louis XIV the Sun King ruled. Lorraine answered to Charles IV. Across the wider world, thirty years' war was reshaping events.
Through Alexandre, the House continued — its name, its arms and its memory carried forward to every generation that followed, down to Brandon Noble LeClaire.
The World They Lived In
Alexandre's lifetime · 1652–1695
Who governed their world
- King of FranceLouis XIV the Sun King
- Duke of LorraineCharles IV
Contemporary figures
- Pierre CorneilleDramatist · 1606–1684
- Blaise PascalMathematician · 1623–1662
- Antonie van LeeuwenhoekMicroscopist · 1632–1723
- J. S. BachComposer · 1685–1750
- VoltairePhilosophe · 1694–1778
Major events during their life
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes1685 · France
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