Source - Early Records of Simpson Families, Helen A Simpson, (J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1927), p 358:
In the Museum of the Louvre in Paris, in the Renaissance Sculpture collection is "The tomb of Philippe Pot, Grand Senechal of Burgundy." It is marked as from the Abbey of Citeaux, dating 1477-1485. This tomb is remarkable not only for its carved statues of eight monks supporting the covering slab on which lies the splendid figure of the Grand Senechal clothed in full armor, but also for the painting combined with the sculpture. Each of the monks who support and seem to stand guard at the sides of the tomb, has at his feet a shield, with coat of arms in colors. The armor of the Senechal bears the device, also colored, of only two of these eight shields. One of the two is the familiar blason of the Potts family in Cheshire, Eng. of which we are a branch. It has the shield or (gold) with two bars azure, not so widely separated as the later form, and lacking the bend of azure (and in one branch, gules) used by the English line and given in Burke's Peerage.
In "The Potts Memorial", by Mrs. Thomas Potts James, published in Boston, 1874, she describes the Potts Arms reversing the tinctures, making the shield azure, two bars and bend of or. One of the monks of this tomb bears a shield azure with with three bends or, quartered by the device of one of the other shields. This seems to be double proof of the identity of the family, and there can be no doubt that it is the tomb of an early ancestor or connection of the Potts family in England, Wales, and America, and that that the origin of the family is French. As an exhibit, it is described as the work of the Burgundian School, Abbaye de Citeaux, 1477-1485.
In Dijon, Burgundy, only two towers and the Salle des Gardes remain of the ancient chateau of the Dukes of Burgundy. In the beautiful gothic Guard Hall and near the imposing 14th and 15th century tombs of John the Fearless, and Philip the Bold, is a cast of one of the monks of the tomb of Philippe Pot, in a niche, inscribed, "Porteur du tombeau de Philippe Pot, Grand Senechal de Bourgogne." This hall would have been a familiar haunt of Philippe Pot, in the duties of his office as Senechal.
