The Swedes and Danes now press Erik for constitutional forms of government in a new union; he refuses.

Continuing discontent and the appeal to the memory of Engelbrekt, whose death had made him a national hero, gives the Swedes the strength necessary to depose Erik by the summer of 1439.

After Norway follows Sweden’s lead, representatives of the three Scandinavian states install Erik’s twenty-four-year-old nephew, Christopher of Bavaria, as King Christopher III of the Kalmar Union.

Erik has been deposed in all three countries when dissident Swedish nobles opposed to his absolutist rule are supported by the Danish state council, which objects to the king's war against the Hanseatic League and the counts of Holstein.

Christopher's accession restores peace and union in the three Scandinavian kingdoms.