POTTER United Families

• More ancient coincidences in the Duchy of Mortaigne, year
1050... Jean Guillaume de Potter de Droogenwalle of the
Castle of Lophem was made noble in 1750 and acquired the
lordship of “Droogenwalle” to the Merode family, counts of
Midelbourg. This brought along other coincidences…
- Tournai (1468): First hint… An artist, named
“Pierquin de Pottes, or de Potter” (mentioned in the
catalog of Royal Library of Brussels), from the Duchy
of Mortaigne, was appointed by the Dukes of
Burgundy in Bruges to move up and paint for them;
- Bruges (1625): family Mortaigne, lords of Pottes and
Potelles, viscounts of Furnes, counts of Midelbourg
(county de Merode), lords of Haveskerque were
included in the sponsors of the Potterie hospital in
Bruges with these blazons;
- Lords of Droogenwalle (1725): the lordship
Droogenwalle was purchased by J-G. de Potter to the
family Merode. But the lordship came from their
cousins, Dukes of Mortaigne, lords of Haveskerque,
Pottes and Potelles (Royal archives, castle Lophem);
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