He appeared for the first time as a witness in a charter representing his father's grant to Coldingham Priory.
He bore the title "Earl of Lothian" on his seal[citation needed].
[1] He married a Scottish woman called Deirdre, and by her fathered three sons, Waltheof, Earl of Lothian, Uchtred deDundas and Sir Patrick de Greenlaw (patrilineal ancestor of the Earls of Home).
[2] Gospatric was a great religious patron, granting lands to many of his neighbouring abbeys.
He even appears to have become a monk himself, and when he died there in 1166[3] he was probably already part of the monastic community where he was buried, at Durham.