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William of Modena
William of Modena was an Italian churchman and papal legate in the Baltic lands from the 1220s. He mediated between the Danes, the Livonian Order and the local converts in Livonia and Estonia and helped bring about the Treaty of Stensby in 1238. In 1243 he divided conquered Prussia into four dioceses, Culm, Pomesania, Warmia and Samland. He later became a cardinal.
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