 After the success of the crusade, the German- and Danish-occupied territory was divided into six feudal principalities by William of Modena.Christianity had come to Latvia with the settlement of Grobiņa by Swedes in the 7th century and the Danes in the 11th.By the time German traders began to arrive in the second half of the 12th century to trade along the ancient trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, some natives had already been baptized.