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