Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Catholic Archbishop of Nidaros, struck coins during his tenure partly as a political act — asserting ecclesiastical authority at precisely the moment the Danish crown was pushing Lutheran reformation northward into Norway. When Christian III consolidated power after the Count's War and formally imposed Lutheranism on Denmark-Norway in 1536, Olav backed the losing Catholic faction. He fled to the Netherlands in 1537, dying in exile at Lier the following year, and with him ended both the Archbishopric and its coinage.
Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Catholic Archbishop of Nidaros, struck coins during his tenure partly as a political act — asserting ecclesiastical authority at precisely the moment the Danish crown was pushing Lutheran reformation northward into Norway. When Christian III consolidated power after the Count's War and formally imposed Lutheranism on Denmark-Norway in 1536, Olav backed the losing Catholic faction. He fled to the Netherlands in 1537, dying in exile at Lier the following year, and with him ended both the Archbishopric and its coinage.