Editing Christiern Pedersen (section)

==The later years==
In 1516, Pedersen returned to [[Lund]] and worked for Archbishop [[Birger Gunnersen]].  In 1522, he became [[Chancellor|Kanzler]] under the new archbishop, [[Johann Wess]]. However, during the reign of the next archbishop, [[Aage Sparre]], Pedersen was accused of treason, among other things, resulting in Pedersen leaving for Germany. As he was loyal to King [[Christian II]], he followed him in exile to the Netherlands in 1526, after meeting him in [[Berlin]], where he spent the next five years in the then-Dutch city of [[Lier, Belgium|Lier]].

In 1529, he renounced his [[Catholicism]] (and his canon status) and became [[Lutheran]]. Consequently, [[Margaret of Habsburg (1480-1530)|Margaret of Austria]], Regent of the Low Countries asked [[Christian II]] to dismiss him, but the exiled king ignored her request.<ref>Paul Arblaster, Gergely Juhász, Guido Latré (eds.), ''Tyndale's Testament'', Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, {{ISBN|2-503-51411-1}}, pp. 136-137.</ref>

He did not return to Denmark before 1532, and got permission to settle in [[Malmö|Malmø]], where he opened a [[printing press]] shop. His continued loyalty towards King [[Christian II]] gained him no friends among the nobility, and it did not get better when later he actively participated in the Civil War ([[Count's Feud|Grevens Fejde]]) on the losers' side.

He married Else Jacobsdatter in 1534 in Malmø, who died during childbirth in 1539. Pedersen sold his printing press shop and moved to [[Copenhagen]] in 1541. During these years he translated the [[Bible]] to Danish.  This was to become his life's work, which sometimes earns him the title "the father of Danish literature". Finished in 1543, but first published in 1550, this work, ''Biblia'', was not only a masterpiece of translation, but also technically excellent, with good-quality graphics and woodcuts. This is the first complete Danish Bible translation. 3000 copies were printed by [[Ludwig Dietz]].

Pedersen was ill during the last 10 years of his life, but he continued to work until his death in 1554, while he was living with relatives in [[Helsinge]].