Christian Theodor von Pincier

Captain Christian Theodor von Pincier, later known as Theodore Pincier, Esquire, or as Theodore de Pencier , was a Hessian auxiliary officer who served on the British side during the American Revolution. Following the peace treaty, he became a settler and wellknown surveyor in colonial British Quebec. He was apparently an illegitimate son of Charles I, Duke of BrunswickWolfenbttel, who was adopted into the Pincier von Knigstein family, known as von Pincier in German and Swedish, or de Pincier in French. They were members of the Swedish nobility.

The child, Christian Theodor , was born out of wedlock as the only illegitimate child of Charles I, Duke of BrunswickWolfenbttel, and married Frenchwoman. His mothers husband, a French grenadier captain named de Martigny, later killed himself, perhaps out of jealousy. Widowed, she remarried to a FrancoSwedish nobleman belonging to the family of Pincier von Knigstein. Christian Theodor was never recognized by his father, and, instead, was adopted by his mothers husband, GeorgesHenri de Pincier, a descendant of Baron Pincier , whose family had received their patent of nobility in Stockholm from Charles XII of Sweden in 1698. From this stepfather, young Christian Theodor gained the surname which he bore. He was to use it for the rest of his life prefixed by one or other of the German or French noble particles von or de as the situation warranted. This was a common practice of the time among the nobility, who alternated between German and French custom, as they moved about Western Europe d

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