Royal and Papal Interference in the Dispatch of Supplies to the East by the Military Orders in the Later Thirteenth Century

In the later thirteenth century military orders in the eastern Mediterranean were becoming increasingly dependent on their western provinces to provide support in the form of both regular responsions and additional contributions. ¹ But the dispatch of supplies was hampered not only by financial problems within the orders but also, at times, by interference by outside powers, which either banned exports or appropriated responsions.