POTTER United Families

As indicated in the origins of the family in Renaix, the brave Liévin
de Pottere was assassinated by the blood-thirsty Duke of Alba around
1520, because of his personal beliefs.
He was a protestant. Only a few lines were written in the “Chronicle
of Flanders” (Royal Archives of Bruges, 1878), in the context of the
killing, by the Church’s Inquisitor, of MM. van Coppenolle,
t’Sersanders, Egmont, Hoorn and other protesting personalities.
Here are details, with the help of the well-known “Daily Diary Logbook”
of cousin Jan de Potter, Brussels city representative.
The analysis will be pursued in the chapter about Louis de Potter,
author of “The History of the Church” offered to Stendhal, that
“Louis’ family was the victim of the terrible persecutions of the horrible Vatican
Church inquisitor, the Duke of Alba”.
Jan’s father, Antoine de Potter was found by: the Leuven expert,
Jacques de Potter, Eric Devos, Antoine Maes and Oscar Delghust.
He is “the cousin of Liévin de Potter who left Renaix at the times of
persecutions”.
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