Unfortunately, Erlembaldo was not able to rest on his laurels for long.
 
Not everyone in Milan was happy with the actions of the pataria, which Erlembaldo had transformed from a spiritual but largely ineffectual organization into a powerful and frankly military one.  Some Milanese—perhaps especially those who were less aware of the actual state of affairs in their church—may have been shocked to see a soldier, even one as pious as Erlembaldo, use physical force against a churchman of any kind, even one as base and thuggish as Guido.  To the less sophisticated, the optics of this may have been uncomfortably suggestive of the rule of man defying the rule of God.

When a massive fire broke out, devastating much of Milan, Guido’s remaining supporters were quick to tout this as an act of divine retribution for the pataria’s overthrow of not only an archbishop, but also much of the traditional social order.  As the common people began to question the righteousness of the cause in which they had followed Erlembaldo, members of the old feudal order seized the moment to band together and take back control of the streets.
 
Now it was no longer large masses of inspired citizens surprising and overwhelming individual aristocrats and their retainers in their homes.  It was smaller groups of citizens in their homes, looking out into the streets to witness the always-fearsome presence of armored overlords on horseback—now assembled in exponentially more formidable groups—reasserting what, for all the common people knew, may well have been the will of God.  They had good reason to lie low.