THANKSTo my beloved kids Aymar, Eleonor + , Olivia, Magali, Youri, Dorsande POTTER d’INDOYE, my family André, Amaury, Christophe,Guillaume, Pierre, Stéphane, Marie-Claire de POTTER d'INDOYE,the late honorable Dame Henri de POTTER d’INDOYE, bornPrincess Elisabeth de MERODE, Suzanne, Ingrid Gaby, Gérald,Miguel, Diego de POTTER, Jean de POTTER de ten BROECK,Eric de POTTER de ZINZERLING, Fernand de POTTER deDROOGENWALLE, Yvonne de POTTER said d’ELSEGHEM,Denis, Serge, Christian, Peter-Frank, Sven, Vincent, Patrick, Hugo,Etjen, Filippe, Dorothée DE POTTER, the POTTER Association,cousins Dame Nicole d’UDEKEM d’ACOZ, Nicolas deGHELLINCK d’ELSEGHEM, Véronique, Béatrice, Geneviève,Isabelle, François van CALOEN, Alain van HILLE...Cousin Henri BRUSSIN, Oxford professor Derrick GOSSELIN,Pieter DONCHE, Heraldic College, Flemish Genealogy Board,Dame Françoise de CASAUBON, Annick MALARD, DNA-expertsWim PENNINX and Astrid KRAHN, Danielle de LAMINNE deBEX, Arnaud WATELET.For a Lophem Castle meeting, prof. Paul JANSSENS, former chairmanNobility council of the Kingdom of Belgium, Cleveland MOFFETT,ex-editor of The Bulletin Magazine and Noël VANDE PUTTE.For their ad-hoc help, to baroness Els WITTE, Pierre-Paul DEBEIR, Jo STEVERLINCK, Dominique RODENBACH, Paul DECLERCK, family of Louis de Potter’s aunt; Sebastiaan De RAEDT,Laurent INGHELBRECHTS, Jos MEVENSEN, volunteers inWest-Flanders; Charles SCHOUW and Adrie RAADERSMA (NL);Heads of Royal Archives Chris VANDE WALLE (Dixmude), EricDEVOS (Renaix), Maurice VANDERMAESEN (Bruges), MichielMESTDAGH (Tourhout); to Patrick ARNOU, Mayor of Zedelgem-Loppem, Karl VANDENBROECK (Bozar).10
All my gratitude, for their genuine genealogy help, to the families vanCALOEN de BASSEGHEM, COPPIETERS t’WALLANT, deGHELLINCK d’ELSEGHEM, van OUTRYVE d’YDEWALLE,van POTTELSBERGHE de la POTTERIE, de SCHIETERE deLOPHEM and, last but not least, d’UDEKEM d’ACOZ.Private Nicolas de POTTER d’INDOYE, Esq.Res. Lt Col., Cmdr Crown Order, hon. Advisor to the president of theHigh Assembly of Canada, hon. Secretary General of the EuroregionTeam member Pieter Donche, genealogy expert, with Nic de Potter, in Renaix.Pieter is not a book patron but made it possible with his immense work in Bruges.11
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After this speech which, despite it
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Longest look in the past, furthest