 The battle, named after the village of Karuse, was the fifth-largest defeat of the Livonian or Teutonic Orders in the 13th century.Almost all that is known about the battle comes from the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle, which devoted 192 lines to the battle.The Livonian Brothers of the Sword, a crusading military order established in 1202, set out to conquer and convert to Christianity indigenous peoples of present-day Latvia and Estonia.