Angry at concessions made to the emperor, several cardinals and bishops prevailed upon Pope Paschal to have a synod to rectify the situation. Vitalis was one of more than one hundred cardinals and bishops who participated in the Lateran council in the following year, on 18–23 March 1112.Hüls,, p. 153. L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae historica. Constitutiones et Acta Publica Imperatorum et Regum Tomus I (Hannover: Hahn 1893), p. 573. The "privilege", which granted the emperor the right to invest a newly elected bishop with the ring and the staff of office before he was consecrated by the appropriate church officials,This severely damaged everything the Gregorian reformers were trying to achieve. Pertz, Monumenta Germaniae historica. Legum. Tomus I, pp. 144-145, no. 96. was soundly condemned.Hüls, p. 122, with note 8. Charles Joseph Hefele, Histoire des conciles, second edition, Tome V (Paris: Letouzey 1912), pp. 532-535. J. D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XXI (Venice: A. Zatta 1776), p. 52.
