From 1610 to 1616, he held the office of secretary to the Danish Chancellery, with a break during the Kalmar War from 1611 to 1613 when he was Hofjunker.

After the war, in his capacity of secretary of the Chancellery, he was also appointed Canon of Ribe Cathedral.

[1] During the Kejserkrigen, the Danish outshoot of the Thirty Years' War, he had to flee his estates in 1627, travelling to Zealand while his wife and children sought refuge in Norway.

[1] For a while, after the end of the war, he served as the leader of the Jutland nobility at the Provincial Meetings (Provinsmøderne) and was in 1638 and again in 1646 appointed country commissioner.

Not living to see the achievements of his two sons, Niels and Jens Juel, he died on 13 February 1657, aged 65 or 66, leaving his widow in poor financial circumstances .