 The following year "the son of Earl Gospatric and the son of Hugh de Morville and the son of earl Fergus (of Galloway)" were asked to go as hostages in negotiations with King Stephen of England.He married a Scottish woman called Deirdre, and by her fathered two sons, Waltheof, Earl of Lothian and Sir Patrick de Greenlaw (patrilineal ancestor of the Earls of Home).Gospatric was a great religious patron, granting lands to many of his neighbouring abbeys.