The Christianization of Livonia and Lithuania was carried out by force of arms. However, we know somefigures who became loyal allies of the crusaders, took part in their battles against the pagans, perhaps sometimes their own relatives, and even died in battles against them. One of them was the Livonian noble Kaupo, who had to give one of his sons as a hostage, but after visiting Pope Innocent III in Rome, he never abandoned his new faith. He died in battle in 1217, and on his deathbed he bequeathed all his property to the Church of Riga. He is the only representative of the Livonian tribe known by name, who appears on the pages of 13th-century chronicles: Henry the Latvian, Caesarius von Heisterbach and the Livonian rhymed chronicle. Suxa is almost forgotten, although he is mentioned in a Livonian rhymed chronicle and a diploma about his baptism in 1268 in the Riga cathedral and becoming a vassal of the Bishop of Riga. He died in a fight against the Lithuanians around 1273.