Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Mezotne

Circary at the Time: Livonia

Years of Activity: saec. 13

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Map:  Click Here (Source:  © MapQuest  http://www.mapquest.com)

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 410)

Approximate modern location: Latvia, south of Riga, west of Bauka, near the border with Lithuania.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 62b*

Other Comments: Site of the medieval Livonian "capital city" of the Samigallians (Zemgale).  This - along with Riga, was our furthest house to the northeast.  

* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.