Werinher was
custos and became the abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall after 1 May 1133. After tumultuous decades with elections of counter-abbots, the election was held remarkably peacefully, as the chronicles emphasise. Werinher directed his administration to the reform of monastic life. Some monks, who did not adhere to his standards of monastic discipline, were reported by him to the papal legate Cardinal
Theodwin in 1134. This rigid policy of reinstating discipline evoked resistance on the part of the monks, but the inter-monastic differences could soon be reconciled. On 12 April 1139, Werinher received the confirmation of privileges and properties from
Pope Innocent II. In 1145, he renewed the existing fraternity with the Abbey of Reichenau. As constructor, he built the churches Saint Leonhard and Saint Egidius which
Pope Eugene III put under his protection on 13 February 1152. In 1162, Werinher was able to acquire
Ittingen Charterhouse from Duke Welf von Ravensburg. As the duke's protecting reeve, Count Udalrich von Gamertingen, died without heirs, the
Vogtei came into the possession of Saint Gall. However, it was later sold by Abbot Werinher to Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf for 300 silver marks. == References ==