Renaissance
Mengin II Le Clerc
Pulligny, Lorraine
⚭ Mengette
Continuation of the Pulligny line — an important bridge between the early civic family and the later noble branches.
Mengin II Le Clerc was one of the great architects of the family's ascent. By the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Le Clercs were no longer merely a family of local standing — they were involved in civic government, trade and the financial administration of Nancy.
A 1498–1499 register records the second account of receipts and expenses made by the four governors or sworn officers of Nancy, including Mengin II Le Clerc. His position enabled his sons Claude and Thierry to receive renewed noble recognition under Duke Antoine of Lorraine in 1512.
In family terms, he represents the point at which wealth, office and noble ambition converged.
Biographical Record
Parents+
Son of Jehan Leclerc de Pulligney.
Spouse+
Married Mengette, mother of Claude Leclerc de Pulligny and Thierry Le Clerc de Roville.
Sources & Evidence+
- Documented record — 1498–1499 register of the four governors of Nancy.
- Documented record — 1512 letters patent of ennoblement of Claude and Thierry, sons of the late Mengin II.
Direct Line
15 generations to Brandon Noble LeClaire
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Their chapter in the dynastyMengin II Le Clerc belongs to the Renaissance. Recorded at Pulligny, Lorraine, the line continued through their hand. They stand at generation 4 of 19 in the documented bloodline that leads to the present House of Greenland-LeClaire.
The renaissance shaped every aspect of Mengin's world — its laws of inheritance, its wars, its faith and its limits.
Marriage to Mengette bound the line to a wider noble network. 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 Mengin, the House continued — its name, its arms and its memory carried forward to every generation that followed, down to Brandon Noble LeClaire.
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