Throughout the island petty lords and more powerful regional potentates fought for supremacy and land. Potentates who paid tribute to Umma-Khan included the rulers of Shaki, Quba, and Shirvan. Feudal structures had been replaced with rules-based bureaucracies, hereditary local potentates with professional civil servants. These potentates condescend to brush and clean Fauvel from his tonsured head to tail. Pope Nicholas IV supported Jean by writing letters urging European potentates to act. Isthmia was fought over by the Turks, Venetians, and local potentates for over three centuries. They have contributed to the abdication or the decapitation of potentates. He was also accredited as Queen Elizabeth's special envoy to various Eastern potentates. At Brympton d'Evercy these were more likely to be talented cricketers than potentates. Below the desavazhis were other local potentates called mukhyastans.