Married Rohesia de Clare, daughter of his powerful neighbor who was Lord of Chepstow, in 1128. They were both witnesses to a charter of Richard de Cromeil to the Priory of Monmouth in 1129, and gave a charter to Alien Priory in Monmouth 'with the consent of my sons, Gilbert and James, to the prior and monks of Monmouth, in exchange for Hodenach, three iron forces, value twenty shillings each, in my town of Monmouth, on the banks of the Wye." 9