TY - BOOK AU - Bourgeois,Nicolas TI - The Cistercians and the Livonia Crusade PY - 2005///. N1 - 22 N2 - The Cistercians, who were very involved in the Christianization process in the Eastern Baltic, have long been accused of having introduced armed mission ( Schwertmission) in Livonia. This paper will show that the forced Christianization was rather a consequence of the ambitions of some aristocrats from Denmark or Northern Germany. We will also point out some historical mistakes. For example, the first bishop of Estonia, Fulco, was not a Cistercian. The Cistercians Theodoricus and Berthold did not launch the Livonian crusades, but Meinhard, first bishop of Livonia, did UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-historique-2005-3-page-521?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -