was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, a member of the House of Tosny and the first feudal baron of Stafford[1] in Staffordshire in England, where he probably built a baronial castle.
[2][3] He was a big landholder in England, and there is no evidence of him inheriting land in Normandy.
[2] Moreover, he patronized many religious institutions, among them Evesham and Conches, prioritizing the former, which shows the importance he assigned to his holdings in England over the ones in Normandy.
[2] He founded Stone Priory in Staffordshire, which became the burial place of many of his family.
[4] The analysis of both his subtenants and his patronage point out to a strategy much less concentrated in Normandy than his brother Raoul II, and almost solely centered in England.