From le Poer, ‘the Poitevin’ — Norman knights out of Poitou in France who arrived in 1170 and made Waterford their own.
Norman Origin · Root meaning ‘of Poitou, France’
Power comes from le Poer, meaning simply ‘the Poitevin’ — a man from Poitou, in western France. The family arrived among the earliest Norman forces in 1170 and were granted vast tracts of County Waterford, where their descendants, the de la Poers, still held Curraghmore centuries later.
A name that names a French province and nothing more — and still became, eight and a half centuries on, one of Waterford's most enduring surnames.
Irish form: de Paor
