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The increasing power of military and mendicant orders in the three Provençal ecclesiastical provinces from the thirteenth century onwards is traditionally portrayed as a blow to the influence of the secular Church, prelates, and cathedral chapters, occurring within complex and changing local and regional geopolitical contexts. Various examples taken from a corpus of ecclesiastical sources that are still largely unpublished show that relations between the religious communities were often fractious. This often resulted in conflicts—sometimes lengthy ones—, as well as arbitrations, between the different elements of the Provençal clergy regarding the sharing of funeral rights between each community, the distribution of the revenue associated with the administration of death, and even the process of managing the dead and celebrating their memory. Through the lens of funeral operations, we examine this notion of competition and even rivalry between the communities.