sentences:  It was quite common in medieval England and Ireland; the spellings "de la Poer" and "La Poer", in the feminine, originate from the Countess's petition, although it is ungrammatical, and J. H. Round called it "idiotic"; the feminine article may be the result of applying it to a peeress.Her spelling has been widely used as a middle name by her Beresford descendants; some of the Powers also adopted this fashionable spelling.Some romantics also claimed a connection with Poher in Brittany.