Truid Ulfstand and his forces came down from Trondheim to arrest the bishop as a part of the Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein.

The bishop heard that he was going to be arrested and barricaded himself and his men inside his castle at Hamar before the Protestant troops came.

The commander of the Protestant forces had a parley with the bishop, and gave him three days to surrender or he would burn the castle.

Then the chronicle states that he prayed: O Gud fader udi himmelen, findes vj icke för, da Gud giffue det vj findis i himmerige.

Also the king of Denmark-Norway became the biggest landowner in Norway after confiscating church lands.