ABSTRACT
The structures of the Teutonic Order in the central and northern part of the Peninsula were based on the bailiwick of Lombardy and on the seat of its general procurator in Rome, examined in this chapter in two separate sections. The bailiwick consisted of a series of commanderies scattered on the territory: first of all Padua, then Venice, Bologna and Brixenei-Precenicco in Friuli. In Rome, the Order had a house already in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, but the location of the procurators' residence was changed two times. After the departure of the papal curia for Avignon, there was an attempt to create a new bailiwick in Central Italy, with as centre the fortified commandery of Monterazzano close to Viterbo. The Order had also some minor possessions in southern Tuscany, mainly small hospices which were not administrated directly by the brethren.
