The Hospitallers' Commandery of Slebech in Pembrokeshire: Foundation, Patronage and Economic Assets,<i> c</i>.1152–1338

The first grants to the Hospitallers in Wales are identified and the circumstances for the foundation of its earliest commandery assessed. The order's growing presence in Wales during the twelfth century is compared to that of the Templars while events in Britain and the Holy Land affecting the house and its resources are outlined. Subsequently the commandery's considerable assets at the end of the twelfth century are mapped and tabulated according to type, number and geographical region; thereafter its income in the early fourteenth century is compared to that of the order's English headquarters at Clerkenwell, London.