POTTER Familles unies

From this branch, Anna Regina Potters married Godefridus van
Lanschot. She was born in 1738 as eighth kid of Francis Potters,
buyer in Den Bosch, son of Johan de Pottere, son of Claudius de
Pottere, bailiff of Grombergen. A brother of Anna Regina was
Christian, carrying the same coat of arms, considered as member of
the same family.
In Bergen-Op-Zoom, the family de Pottere was in the port
authority in the 15 th , 16 th and 17 th centuries. Jan Baptist de Pottere,
born in 1626 in the castle of Grimhuysen (Oud-Gastel) and prior in
the abbey of Sevenborn in Halle, wrote in 1687 in a family book that
an esquire Jan de Pottere, living in 1293, was a noble man, of pleasant
and spiritual company (sic).
He also said that “his nobility came from his ancestors, a.o. Herman de Pottere,
made noble in 1093 by Godfrey of Bouillon”. Unfortunately, in 1397 and
again in 1444, Bergen-Op-Zoom was destroyed, leaving no records
of such amazing informations from the Abbey of Grimhuysen. In the
purple branch of the Netherlands, we include Thomas de Pottere
who was a tax-receiver of the King of Spain in the Low Countries
with his own secure medal receipt shown here below.
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