If some Wauchopes are truly Norman but do not prove to descend from the Baa family, who else might then be their progenitors?
The Poteria family of La Poterie-Mathieu, Normandy, were the first recorded Norman proprietors of the ancient lands of Wallop, Hampshire, under Domesday tenant-in-chief Hugh de Montfort after William s conquest of England in 1066. The family apparently never did take on the estate s name in England, as did a branch of the Peverels later in the thirteenth century. The Poterias lost their English lands in 1204 for adhering to Philip Augustus (i..e., King Philip II of France, 1180-1223). Philip II annexed much land for France (including: Normandy, Maine, Bretagne, Anjou, Touraine, and Poitou), and warred against the English. It is possible that a branch of the family was invited to Scotland at the time of King David I, circa 1124, taking along their English estate name of Wallop, much as the Espec family may have done later with the name Kerr. Conceivably, this confiscation of English property may have contributed to the Scottish branch forgetting their origins. In support, Wallop and Wau
