When the Heiji Disturbance occurred, his father Kageshige sided with the army of MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo, but his forces were lost in the battle, which ended up changing the ownership of the Katagiri clan's fief to the Taira clan and left the Katagiri clan without fief for over 20 years thereafter.
平治の乱で父景重が源義朝方に与して敗れたことから片桐の地は以後平家領となり20年以上に渡って所領を失っていた。