As Alan's chamberlain, he succeeded Bishop John after the latter's death, in 1209.
[3] He appears in some records in England, as a suffragan of the Archbishop of York, witnesses a grant to Melrose Abbey during the reign of Alexander II of Scotland and granted to Dryburgh Abbey the parish church of Sorbie.
[4] His obituary in 1235 is noted in the Melrose Chronicle; he seems to have died in either January or February of that year.
[5] An excavation of Whithorn Priory during 1957-67 uncovered the remains of various senior ecclesiastical figures whose identities were not known at the time.
The techniques employed allowed the researchers to conclude that the clerics enjoyed a diet of quality meat and fish.