POTTER United Families

With this literary work, we indeed recognized Lodewijk de Potter in
“De Ter-Pot” alias. Not only the apparent literary inversion pleads in
this sense, but also the “Napoleonic” career of the man who, since
February 1803, had encouraged delicate Bonaparte's themes in
Flanders.
Between the period immediately after the last years of Napoleon's
reign, there was a huge debate among the population about
Napoleon's heritage. Perhaps the aforementioned political
convictions of Karel E. de Potter may have worked on his son
Lodewijk, when in 1813, in the case of the Ghent priests against
Napoleonic bishop Dela Brue, as a defendant, Lodewijk finally
stopped writing and recognized the bischop. Most of the refusers
were then banned...!
On 15 Harvest 1782, because of superior agricultural merits, by
appointment of Courtrai-based Count Joseph of Murray, stepfather
of Count de Thiennes, Karel de Potter was appointed esquire of
Rumbeke, under privileges attached to his land property there and
church ruler. Shortly thereafter, Karel married Maria-Theresia Mulle,
prominent business family of the city of Winkel St Elooi; She was the
daughter of the Bailiff of Ter Vichten. The family de Thiennes owned
of the historic Castle of Rumbeke and were ancient friends of the
family de Potter.
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