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These lay not so much in the realm of institutional change as in development , and above all in that sphere of personal or household government where even custom could not deny him the right to initiative . The king had taken a new Italian wife , of course , but two years had passed without the issue of an heir from that quarter so that the significance of the marriage diminished monthly . " Here on one of the most direct and shortest routes from the north to the new realm of Toledo growth was fast enough for that settlement to be in violent revolt against control from Toledo in 1114 and to have exacted successfully the restoration of its ancient bishopric by 1120 . So the events of late 1123 and early 1124 did much more than strengthen the eastern flank of the realm of Toledo , to which the Muslim position at Cuenca now became the most advanced threat . It seems probable that there was little institutional link with the chancery of Alfonso VI but that a strong awareness of the latter 's procedures influenced those of Urraca 's chancery . The illegitimacy of Sancho 's birth and the religion of his mother had been rectified , so far as might be , by the latter 's conversion to Christianity and her formal recognition as his consort . The crown 's premier position in the political life of the realm could thus be enhanced by initiatives of its own in the realm of the international sphere or by responding to overtures from without . Students are working on the next issue of The Pylon under the supervision of a substitute teacher . But the expedient proved ultimately to be futile as Jimena gave birth to two children only , who survived , and both were daughters . The Christian principalities of the northeast could also see their own advantage in the new division of the realm of Zaragoza and were drawn into conflict there with al-Mutamin and the Cid . 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 .