Caupo of Turaida

Livonian noble (died 1217)

Died
1217
Caupo of Turaida, Kaupo or Kaupo Lieven, sometimes Kubbe was a leader of the Finnic-speaking Livonian people in the beginning of the 13th century, in what are now parts of Latvia and Estonia by the Gulf of Riga. He is sometimes called a 'King of Livonia'; the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia refers to him as quasi rex, 'like a king'.

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