Families of Powys
Powys (Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire)
The Severn headwaters and Brycheiniog — Hywel Dda's southern half.
Families seated in Powys
- EvansSon of John, by the Welsh road — the cousin name of Jones.
- LewisLlywelyn anglicised — a princely name carried into common use across the Marches and the south.
- OwenThe princely name — Owain in Welsh, the surname of the last revolt and the first Tudor.
- LloydLlwyd — the grey one — the great descriptive surname of the central Welsh ridge.
- Powellap Hywel — the contracted patronymic that descends from Hywel Dda, the king who wrote Welsh law.
- VaughanFychan — the younger — the descriptive surname that marks a son.
- Pughap Hugh — the Welsh contraction working on a Norman name.
- GlyndŵrThe last native-born Prince of Wales — and the longest revolt the Welsh would ever raise.
- WatkinsSon of little Walter — the Norman first name that took Welsh root.
- MeredithSon of the great lord — princely surname of Deheubarth.
Historic ties to Powys
Families with historic but not core ground here.