Medieval
Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny
c. 1410 – c. 1465
Pulligny, Lorraine
Sieur de Pulligny
⚭ N. de Pulligny
- Noble marriage
- Estate & seigneury
- Heraldic significance
- Civic office
Gules, two fesses or intertwined with seven bezants argent, placed 3, 3 and 1. Crest: a dexter hand vested in gold holding a human head with long hair and beard of the same in its natural form, and a long ermine banner hanging from the said dexter hand.
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Explore Allied Arms →Ennobled by letters patent on 3 January 1464. Through him the House enters the recognised noble and seigneurial order of Lorraine.
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.
Biographical Record
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.
Sources & 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.
Direct Line
16 generations to Brandon Noble LeClaire
Story Mode
Their chapter in the dynastyJehan Leclerc de Pulligny belongs to the Late Middle Ages. Born around 1410 in Pulligny, Lorraine, Sieur de Pulligny. They stand at generation 3 of 19 in the documented bloodline that leads to the present House of Greenland-LeClaire.
The late middle ages shaped every aspect of Jehan's world — its laws of inheritance, its wars, its faith and its limits.
Marriage to N. de Pulligny bound the line to a wider noble network. Ennoblement followed on 3 January 1464 by letters patent. Their children carried the name into the next generation.
In France, Charles VI ruled. Lorraine answered to Charles II. Across the wider world, hundred years' war was reshaping events.
Through Jehan, 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
Jehan's lifetime · 1410–1465
Who governed their world
- King of FranceCharles VI
- Duke of LorraineCharles II
Contemporary figures
- Joan of ArcSoldier-saint of France · 1412–1431
- Leonardo da VinciPolymath · 1452–1519
Major events during their life
- Hundred Years' War1337–1453 · France
France and England contest the French crown.
- Western Schism1378–1417 · Europe
Rival popes in Rome and Avignon.
- Joan of Arc lifts the siege of Orléans1429 · France
- Fall of Constantinople1453 · Europe
- Petitgout inheritance recognised1461 · Lorraine
Nicole Le Clerc de Pulligny declared plus proche hoir of Richart Petitgout.
- Ennoblement of Jehan Leclerc de Pulligny1464 · Lorraine
Letters patent confer noble status, 3 January 1464.
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