Following the death of the founder of the Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi, the Order found itself in crisis due to the autocratic rule of General Elijah. Disunity arose among the brothers and they moved further away from the original idea of the Order. With the arrival of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio as Minister General of the Friars Minor in 1257, began the period of the Order’s Reformation. The work of the General Chapter in Narbonne in 1260 proclaimed The Constitutions of Narbonne - a collection that includes the statutes of previous General Chapters and decrees written by Bonaventure. The Constitutions of Narbonne pay special attention to the question of authority in order to reduce the individual power and to increase the collective power. Some of these decrees were made at the General Chapters between 1239 and 1242, and the Constitutions of Narbonne take over such structure of government. In the Preface to the Constitutions of Narbonne Bonaventure emphasizes the authority of the Rule from which every subsequent authority within the community derives. The supreme authority of the Order was the General Chapter, which had the highest administrative level, and it was followed by the Provincial and then the House chapter. The division in this structure was made into prelates and subordinates. This did not mean that the authority of the prelates was above subordinates, but rather the opposite - that authority came from the will of the community that elected the prelates. In this way, two authorities were realized: hierarchical and corporate, both of which served to maintain the purity of the Rule and to live an evangelical life.