After being expelled, the remaining Victual Brothers, now calling themselves the Likedeelers ('equal sharers'), continued their piracy and expanded their activities into the North Sea and along the Atlantic coast, raiding as far as France and Spain.

While Queen Margaret's forces were besieging Stockholm, the blockade runners who came to be known as the Victual Brotherhood engaged in war at sea and shipped provisions to keep the city supplied.

The name Victual Brothers is derived from the Latin word "victualia"—meaning provisions—and refers to their first mission, which was to supply the besieged city.

Queen Margaret even turned to King Richard II of England and sought to charter English ships to combat the pirates.

An invasion army under Konrad von Jungingen (1355–1407), the Grand Master of the Order, conquered the island in 1398, destroying Visby and driving the Victual Brothers out of Gotland.

[6][7] After the Victual Brothers' defeat and expulsion from Gotland in 1398, the Hanseatic League tried repeatedly but unsuccessfully to completely control the Baltic Sea.

The successors to the Victual Brothers gave themselves the name Likedeelers ("equal sharers"): they shared with the poor coastal population.

They expanded their activities into the North Sea and along the Atlantic coastline, raiding Brabant and France and striking as far south as Spain.

In 1401 the Hamburg warship Die Bunte Kuh, leading a small fleet under Commander Simon of Utrecht, caught up with Störtebeker's forces near Heligoland.

In 1429, some 28 years after the execution of Störtebeker, members of the Victual Brothers attacked and plundered the important trading town of Bergen, eventually burning it to the ground.