His own family background is likewise unknown, though he had a nephew for whom he obtained several papal favours.

Relationships between the Scottish Crown and the Papacy were generally good, with James IV receiving tokens of papal favour.

Favour with the king was combined with papal favour, for he was styled papal chaplain by 1250.

In the last decade of the 11th century the abbey seems to have been fully restored to papal favour, and it continued to prosper for a long subsequent period.

After the accession of Pope Alexander VII (1655-67), he once again enjoyed papal favour.

One, Joseph, continued to remain in the papal favor; the other, Immanuel, was also in the service of the pope, from whom he received a regular salary.

And in a clear signal of papal favor, he was invited to preach at the Pope's Lenten retreat in 1996.

Despite this, relationships between the Scottish crown and the Papacy were generally good, with James IV receiving tokens of papal favour.

Her third husband (1227) was Enrico di Ceola, a Pisan of the Capraia family who soon gained papal favour.

He also gave out papal favours with a lavish hand, from which the mendicant orders benefitted especially.