A knight back from crusade, he founded two monasteries and entered them with his wife and daughter.
An Auvergne lord, he left in 1146 on the Second Crusade with Louis VII, having taken the cross from Bernard of Clairvaux at Vézelay. He came back without particular glory — the expedition was a disaster — but with a resolve made on the road. Home again, he gave away his lands and founded at Neuffonts, in the Bourbonnais, an abbey of Premonstratensian canons and, close by, the priory of Aubeterre for women. He entered it as an ordinary religious; his wife Pétronille took the veil in the other house, and their daughter Ponce followed her. What struck his contemporaries was just that: the whole family undid itself at once, without lawsuit or scandal, each in their own house. He died around 1152. He became the patron saint of the Bourbonnais.
A Premonstratensian in white habit, his sword laid at his feet; sometimes with two nuns, his wife and daughter.