Wilhelm von Berg, who had been chosen Bishop of Paderborn (1400–1415), selected Gobelinus for his court chaplain and induced him to enter his service.
The latter availed himself of his position to work for the improvement of religious life and particularly for the restoration of discipline in the cloisters which had drifted into an habitual disregard of their rules.
The Archbishop of Cologne, Dietrich von Mörs, who in 1415 received the See of Paderborn gave the dean authority to reform the religious life, not only in the monastery of Bielefeld but also in other institutions, a mission Gobelinus fulfilled.
He wrote a history of the world entitled: Cosmidromius, hoc est Chronicon unversale complectens re ecclesiae et reipublicae.
Another work of Gobelinus was his Vita Meinulphi, a biography of Meinolf, a canon of the cathedral chapter of Paderborn in the first half of the ninth century, and the founder of the Böddeken monastery.
The Cosmidromius of Gobelinus was first published by Meibom (Frankfort, 1599) in the Scriptores rerum Germanicarum; Max Jansen prepared a new edition (Münster, 1900).