Brask was opposed to Sten Sture's struggle with archbishop Gustav Trolle, but signed a document at the 1517 diet to remove the bishop.

Under his seal he is supposed to have put a note saying "Härtill är jag nödd och tvungen" - "To this I am forced and compelled".

This legend hass birthed the term in modern Swedish of Brasklapp ("Brask note"), meaning a hidden or oblique reservation to an otherwise spotless or obsequious acceptance.

In fact Brask supported the Danish king Christian II, but was not part of the events that led to the infamous massacre in Stockholm 1520.

Bishop Brask is believed to have died in Ląd (Swedish Landa) monastery (the Cistercian Trail, Poland) in 1538,[5] where his tombstone is seen to this day.