Gradually Gerhoh adopted a stricter ecclesiastical attitude, and eventually withdrew (1121) from the simoniacal Bishop Hermann, and took refuge in the monastery of Raitenbuch in the Diocese of Freising.

Bishop Kuno of Ratisbon ordained him a priest in 1126, and gave him the parish of Cham, which he later resigned under threats from Hohenstaufen followers whom he had offended at the Synod of Würzburg in 1127.

Archbishop Conrad sent him several times on special missions to Rome; in 1143 he also accompanied, together with Arnold of Brescia, Cardinal Guido di Castello of Santa Maria in Portico on his embassy to Bohemia and Moravia.

lxiv, that appeared separately as Liber de corrupto Ecclesiæ statu ad Eugenium III Papam (P.L., CXCIV, 9-120); Sackur, 439-92).

There are also a number of polemical works and letters against the Christological views of Abelard, Gilbert de la Porrée, and Bishop Eberhard of Bamberg; others deal with the errors of Folmar, Provost of Triefenstein, on the subject of the Holy Eucharist.

Those of his writings which are of importance for the study of the history of that period were edited by Sackur in the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica: Libelli de lite imperatorum et pontificum, III (Hanover, 1897), 131–525; also by Scheibelberger, Gerhohi Opera adhuc inedita (Linz, 1875).