POTTER United Families

DUTCH BRANCH
(Zeeland, Bergen-Op-Zoom, Breda, Delft, Utrecht, Amsterdam)
Fully identified by B. van Blokland of the High Society of
The Hague, for the period 1200-1850, even mentioning a very first
ancestor in 1093. He identified Maximiliaan de Pottere, as a lawyer at
the Court of Holland, son of Roeland de Pottere, Prelate and delegate
of the “Noble men of Zeeland” in Middelbourg, between 1543 and
1563, son of Jacob de Pottere who was member of the “Prelate and
Noble men of the County of Middelbourg” in 1529.
Maximiliaan was the father of Roeland de Pottere, jesuit, and of
Dominicus de Pottere, advisor and treasurer of the Prince Willem of
Orange. We also found their cousin Hendrik who was in 1578 a
captain in the Scottish naval force and resided in the House de
Pottere in Noordgouwe. Also, in 1897 W. Juten wrote in Taxandria
that there are several members of this family all carrying the three
roses as coat of arms, across border regions. He referred to the
families de Pottere in Bergen Op Zoom, Gastel, Zeeland and Den
Bosch, with ties in Courtrai and Ghent.
The family name “de Pottere”, with ancient Frasnes spelling, is only
carried by cousins Franz -Bruno, Alexander and Charly de Pottere
whose ancestors migrated to Prussia-Germany and then to the U.S.A.
André de Potter d’Indoye told us that those German cousins offered
a heritage to his father who refused as he had to carry the old spelling!
Franz married a member of the family Holstein Ledreborg - de
Luxemburg, thereby cousins of the Danish royal family, the Grand-
Duchy of Luxemburg’s family, the French Bourbon’s and the...
Dutch Nassau’s. Today, we seek further if this family pursued under
the name “Potterus” with similar arms, the three pots in triangle.
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