 Stefan Weinfurter argues that religious reform motives and the corrosive influence of a group of young Bavarian counts - Margrave Diepold III von Vohburg, Count Berengar II of Sulzbach and Count Otto von Habsburg-Kastl - are the primary causes.These nobles succeeded in convincing the young Henry V of his father's lost cause and the eventual triumph of reform.If he did not act and waited until his father died, someone else would attempt to ascend the throne and would find many supporters.