He was the oldest son of Walter II, count of Valois, Vexin and Amiens, and his wife Adela.
His father died between 1017 and 1024, leaving Vexin and Amiens to him and Valois to his younger brother Ralph.
He married Goda,[1] daughter of King Ethelred the Unready of England and Queen Emma of Normandy and the sister of King Edward the Confessor.
Their sons were Walter (Gautier) III, Count of the Vexin,[1] and Ralph the Timid, earl of Hereford,[1] and Foulques (Fulk) de Vexin.
Drogo is reported to have died in 1035 while on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.