 Jocelin and his family probably came from the south @-@ east of Scotland . The names of neither his father nor his mother are known , but he had two known brothers , with the names Helia and Henry , and a cousin , also called Helia . The names suggest that his family were of French , or at least Anglo @-@ Norman origin , rather than being a Scot or native Anglo @-@ Saxon . There are some indications that his family held land in South Lanarkshire , namely because they seem to have possessed rights in the church of <unk> . It is unlikely that he would have thought of himself as " Scottish " . For Jocelin 's contemporary and fellow native of the Borders , Adam of Dryburgh , this part of Britain was still firmly regarded as terra Anglorum ( the " Land of English " ) , although it was located inside the regnum Scottorum ( the " Kingdom of the Scots " ) . This would be no obstacle to Jocelin , however . His Anglo @-@ French cultural background was in fact probably necessary for the patronage of the King of Scots . As Walter of Coventry wrote of King William 's era , " the modern kings of Scotland count themselves as Frenchmen , in race , manners , language and culture ; they keep only Frenchmen in their household and following , and have reduced the Scots to utter servitude " . 
