Peasants who fled these estates often moved to crown lands, or sought refuge in forests, mountains, and other inaccessible areas, often turning to brigandage.
[2][3] According to contemporary written sources, such as peasant trial records, Komorowski displayed provocative and dismissive behavior toward his subjects, and enacted several burdensome policies.
[3] Komorowski forced village leaders to pay the same hiberna (a type of tax) as their communities, stripped villagers of judicial rights, seized properties, persecuted resistance leaders, compelled peasants to use the manor's taverns and mills, demanded unpaid labor not stipulated in decrees, including on religious holidays, beat those who resisted, increased feudal burdens, forcibly settled Vlach shepherds to impose obligations on them, and took better fields from peasants.
Over time, the peasants began to flee to Orava and Silesia, joining bandits and attacking estates and manor officials.
In November 1630, they conspired and took up arms with drums and banners, organizing themselves militarily, burning mills and inns, destroying crops, and setting ambushes for Komorowski and his men.