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- Yscitheor, an old Welch/Gaylic name from which the Lords of Powys used in early history 800/1100's later became De La Pole ("of the Poole"). They lived at a Castle in the Kingdom of Powys. Powys was located in central Wales and extended into severial counties in Southwestern England.
Today the Castle in Montgomersyshire, Wales is called Powis. When it was first built in the 800's it was called Welchpoole because it was located at the edge of a lake, thus the name "poole" (the Welch Castle by the poole)
The Yscitheor family that lived there later became known as de la Poole (of the Poole) and still later this name was shortened to De La Pole. This was a very powerful family that held many titles in the English Kingdom.
The King of Powys surrendered his kingdom to the Normans and the Norman King gave him the Lordship of there former kingdom to rule as a Princeapality, thus the Kings of Powys became the Princes of Powys and "held" it in Lordship for the King of England. Brockwell Yacitheor was one such "Prince of Powys". His Coat-of-Arms is 3 Silver Wolf Heads on a Black Shield. This Coat-of-Arms was made part of the Prater Coat-of-Arms which indicates that Brockwell's descendant was married to our grandfather. We do not know the name of his descendant, but we know that by the laws of Heraldry in England that there is NO doubt that she was our grandmother and lived in the early 10 or 1100's.
Her sister was married to a De La mere , who was a baron and powerful Lord, from which Sir John De La Mere descended. Sir John De La Mere built Nunney Castle in 1373. Our Grandfather, George Prater of Latton Manor died there in 1564. His son Richard Prater owned and lived in Nunney Castle, Nunney, Somerset. Richard Prater's tomb and statue effegy is in the church there.
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