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In monasteries and cathedral schools around Europe another more critical intellect was already stirring , and perhaps some of Alfonso 's own prelates had been formed in such a mold . Since the counts , or in Castilla magnates , of that period who can be identified number some twenty-seven and the bishops seventeen , the heavy cavalry would have represented a little less than one-fifth of the resources of the whole kingdom . Rhetoric commanded assent at least occasionally and , up to a point , logic [ 160 ] could resolve conflicts and conflicting alternatives . Since the royal entourage numbered in itself between two and four times the adult population of such villages and monasteries as it was likely to happen upon , it must be prepared to maintain itself for weeks at a time . Immediate action could not be taken , but such haste was not imperative since everyone would have played a waiting game in view of the fact that something like a quarter of all infants born never survived their first year . Still , this ability of the realm , after two years of civil war and near dismemberment , to respond to such a variety of challenges points to the surprising strength and resiliency of its basic structures . Then the governor of Granada could make an unimpeded advance across the meseta of southern Castilla la Nueva and ravage the territories of Toledo . “ I can ’ t apologize for everything that goes across the editorial page — it ’ s an editorial cartoon , ” Phillips said . The university handed over the financial documents near the beginning of February . Since Alfonso stated at that time his intentions to proceed to Toledo and examine its defenses we can infer that he had as yet not traveled south of Segovia but was engaged in a general oversight of repairing defenses and restoring his authority in the long , threatened eastern triangle between Madrid , Toledo and Zorita , perhaps even stretching northward toward Medinaceli . ” Duffy said he was notified of the missing papers around Feb. 23 , when a newspaper staff member said there were no newspapers in Myers Hall and asked if the papers had been distributed.After confirming the papers had been delivered , Duffy said he suspected theft . Her son Alfonso , who had been at least a passive witness of her actions , now withdrew [ 147 ] from her court and joined Count Pedro Froilaz , whose troops were camped near the city . ( 100 ) His absence from Galicia and the formation around him of a new and more cosmopolitan court with which he would increasingly identify his possibilities sapped the vital legitimacy of Gallegan opposition to Urraca . 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 .