Ancien Régime
Nicolas Le Clerc
1624 – 1660
Lorraine
⚭ Anne Fériet de Lezay1626 – 1678
Son of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny and father of Alexandre II Le Clerc; the generation through which the direct ancestral line is carried across the mid-seventeenth century in Lorraine.
Nicolas Le Clerc (1624–1660) belongs to the generation that carried the family through the most turbulent decades of the seventeenth century — the Thirty Years' War, the French occupations of Lorraine and the long pressure of Louis XIII and Louis XIV on the Duchy.
He stands between his father Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny, Knight of Saint Mark, and his son Alexandre II Le Clerc, Minor Lord of Lorraine, by whom the direct ancestral line passes into the eighteenth-century Le Claire family from which the modern House descends.
Biographical Record
Parents+
Son of Alexandre Le Clerc de Pulligny (1587 – after 1659), Knight of Saint Mark.
Children+
Father of Alexandre II Le Clerc (1652–1695), Minor Lord of Lorraine.
Family Significance+
Nicolas is the quiet generation through whom the direct line continues from the Knights of Saint Mark of 1623 to the Minor Lords of Lorraine of the later seventeenth century.
Direct Line
11 generations to Brandon Noble LeClaire
Story Mode
Their chapter in the dynastyNicolas Le Clerc belongs to the Wars of Religion. Born around 1624 in Lorraine, the line continued through their hand. They stand at generation 8 of 19 in the documented bloodline that leads to the present House of Greenland-LeClaire.
The wars of religion shaped every aspect of Nicolas's world — its laws of inheritance, its wars, its faith and its limits.
Marriage to Anne Fériet de Lezay bound the line to a wider noble network. Their children carried the name into the next generation.
In France, Louis XIII ruled. Lorraine answered to Henry II. Across the wider world, thirty years' war was reshaping events.
Through Nicolas, 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
Nicolas's lifetime · 1624–1660
Who governed their world
- King of FranceLouis XIII
- Duke of LorraineHenry II
- Duke of LorraineCharles IV
- Holy Roman EmperorFerdinand II
- PopeUrban VIII
Contemporary figures
- Johannes KeplerAstronomer · 1571–1630
- Pierre CorneilleDramatist · 1606–1684
- Blaise PascalMathematician · 1623–1662
- Antonie van LeeuwenhoekMicroscopist · 1632–1723
Major events during their life
- Thirty Years' War1618–1648 · Germany
Devastates the Holy Roman Empire and Lorraine.
- French occupation of Lorraine begins1635 · Lorraine
- Peace of Westphalia1648 · Europe
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How Did I Get Here?
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