POTTER United Families

Above archives were found in 1958 by the Rochefort fathers de
Potter, published by princess de Merode and deposited with the
Belgian Genalogy Office, no remarks eversince. They all worked
accurately. Louis Maes, author of the “Document Maes” was a clerk
of the City of Renaix. He also was our cousin, via Nicolas Maeterlinck
(ancestor of Nobel Prize of Literature, Maurice Maeterlinck), also
from Renaix, both related to Head of Archives Devos.
Like Eric Devos, father de Potter showed us his archives and research
papers at the Abbey of Rochefort in 1995, in the presence of
genealogist Douxchamps. In the mean time, a book, also registered
at the Genealogy Office of Belgium, did cut off three centuries in our
tree. The fathers de Potter and my beloved late aunt Dame Henri de
Potter d’Indoye - de Merode, plus several other experts, and me, are
convinced that there is no doubt about Gilles in Renaix in 1357 to be
the direct ancestor of all blue branch descendants.
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