[1] The next year Paschall II declared him unfit, quashed his election[1] and Gervais resigned as archbishop in 1109, returning to his former role as archdeacon.
[1] Upon the death of his elder brother, Manasser, in 1115,[1] Gervais resigned from the clergy and married Elisabeth, daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Namur and in 1118 he succeeded his father as Count of Rethel.
Gervais died in 1124 and his widow Elizabeth remarried to Roger Clarembauld, Lord of Rosoi in Thierache who gave the hand of his step-daughter to Robert Marmion, Baron of Tamworth.
[1] Because Gervais' younger brother Baldwin was in the Holy Land, where he served as King of Jerusalem, he was succeeded as ruler of Rethel by his sister Matilda and her husband Odo of Vitry.
[2] He was married to Elisabeth, a daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Namur.