Caupo of Turaida

Caupo of Turaida
Leader of Livonia
Monument to Caupo at Krimulda Castle
ReignUntil 21 September 1217
Born12th century,
presumably Kaup, Mokhovoye, modern-day Kaliningrad Oblast
Died(1217-09-21)21 September 1217
Near Viljandi
HouseLieven

Caupo of Turaida, Kaupo or Kaupo Lieven, sometimes Kubbe (died 21 September 1217) 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. [1]

He is considered to be the progenitor of the Lieven family.

  1. ^ Stephen Turnubll, Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2 ed.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-17-80-96218-4