Revolution & Empire
Johann Baptiste Le Clair
1796, ?
⚭ Gertrud L. A. de Weels
A generation showing the family name in the Le Clair form, reflecting linguistic and administrative variation.
Johann Baptiste Le Clair, born in 1796, was raised in the German-speaking territories of the Rhine. With his generation parish registers begin to record the family name in its Germanised forms, Le Clair, Leclair, and ultimately Licklär.
Direct Line
6 generations to Brandon Noble LeClaire
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Their chapter in the dynastyJohann Baptiste Le Clair belongs to the Revolution & Empire. Born around 1796 in Lorraine, the line continued through their hand. They stand at generation 13 of 19 in the documented bloodline that leads to the present House of Greenland-LeClaire.
The revolution & empire shaped every aspect of Johann's world, its laws of inheritance, its wars, its faith and its limits.
Marriage to Gertrud L. A. de Weels bound the line to a wider noble network.
Across the wider world, french revolution begins was reshaping events.
Through Johann, 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
Johann's lifetime · 1796–1856
Who governed their world
- Holy Roman EmperorFrancis II
Contemporary figures
- Napoleon BonaparteEmperor of the French · 1769–1821
- Victor HugoNovelist · 1802–1885
- Auguste RodinSculptor · 1840–1917
Major events during their life
- Napoleon crowned Emperor1804 · France
- Battle of Waterloo1815 · Europe
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How Did I Get Here?
Path from Johann to Brandon