ABSTRACT
A volume in honour of Alan Forey is an appropriate place to calendar a few documents concerning military religious orders on the Iberian Peninsula. The twenty-nine texts discussed here are petitions to Popes Clement VI (1342-1352) and Innocent VI (1352-1362) and concern the Iberian military religious orders. They contain considerable daily routine, but also provide valuable information for reconstructing social networks. They raise the more general question of whether papal documents truly reflect papal policies or merely react to petitions from clients all over Latin Europe and show that in fact papal documents can do both: complying with wishes from clients did leave space open for the political, legal, and financial manoeuvring of the Papal Curia.
