He was ruler of the small former Northumbrian province of Eskdale in Dumfriesshire, as well as Abercorn in West Lothian.
[1] He was one of a small number of Anglo-Norman immigrants to have been given a provincial lordship in southern Scotland in the early-to-mid 12th century.
He gave to God, and to St Mary and the monks of Melrose, his land of Eskdale, as his charter testifies; may his blessed soul ever live in glory.
[6] He had three sons, by his wife Sybil, Gervase, Vincent and Robert, the latter of whom became a clerk.
[8] Robert had a daughter who was a concubine of William the Lion, king of the Scots.