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This practice was , perhaps , the older tradition in the peninsula in both public and private documents , but Alfonso VI had not adhered to it . Thus , it seems to me , the often repeated charge that he was " afrancesado " illustrates better the xenophobia of modern Spanish historians than the policy of the king . Though it could not have been foreseen at the time , the close cooperation of the primate and Alfonso VI , and indeed with his successor Urraca ( 1109-1126 ) as well , was to make the cathedral chapter of Toledo the mother of bishops in the peninsula . Besides the regular members of the chancery discussed [ 212 ] above , court officials are relatively few . Since , on the evidence of the documents , neither had brought to the peninsula with them any extensive group of retainers , only the royal support could sustain their authority among the nobles of those highly particularist districts . During the same summer , Abd Allah was beset with revolts in his own territories , which failed but had the cumulative effect of driving him toward closer cooperation with Alfonso VI . “ I can ’ t apologize for everything that goes across the editorial page — it ’ s an editorial cartoon , ” Phillips said . Papal policy during the early part of this period seems to have been aimed at maintaining some kind of balance and adjudicating the claims of the rivals , but both the ecclesiastical and political dynamics in the Iberian peninsula proved too strong to be moderated by a distant and intermittent authority , however exalted . On March 11 , 1088 , Alfonso VI granted a charter in which he endowed the monastery of San Servando , just across the Tajo from Toledo , and ceded it to the papacy but with the provision that it should be permanently administered by the abbot of the monastery of Saint-Victor of Marseilles , who would pay an annual tribute in gold to Rome for that privilege . One method of preparing for a future of increasing importance for the shrine-see was to secure freedom from supervision in the peninsula . Yet the infant must have been a lusty one for shortly after he did in fact attain his first birthday the king had decided to take the first step toward proclaiming young Sancho as his heir . Even its aesthetic perceptions were ordered toward feats of horsemanship , and of arms , and of the mastery of nature . Rather , four of them are bunched toward the end of the period between late 1082 and 1085 . Then the governor of Granada could make an unimpeded advance across the meseta of southern Castilla la Nueva and ravage the territories of Toledo .