 However Pole was sceptical of this high-status connection ""which I can hardly admit without better proof than their allegation"".He accepted that Mary de Vernon may well have been married to a man whose name was Latinized as Peter "de Pratellis" ("from the meadow"), better known by his Norman-French name Peter de Preaux, but had never seen the surname of Prouse Latinized in such a form, only as "Probus".There is however one clear Courtenay connection