A new retable was commissioned for Vigala’s medieval church at some point in the latter half of the 1680s. Johann Heinrich von Derfelden, a member of Sweden’s Horse Guards, the local Mannrichter (district court judge), and the owner of Kloostri Manor, and his wife Katharina Agneta von Üxküll, daughter of Jürgen von Üxküll, who was a churchwarden of Vigala and the former owner of Vigala Manor, commissioned the work. Their coats-of-arms were mounted in the middle of the retable.

The coats-of-arms mounted on the retable reminded the congregation of its donors and indicated the need to recite intercessions on their behalf.