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“ The police have been nonexistent , ” Duffy said . The dating formula is somewhat altered but usually continues to give the day , month , and year of issuance , the latter in the Spanish era . The general religious aura that enveloped the person of the king made him , if not a spiritual leader in the proper sense , the first churchman of the kingdom for practical purposes . One has but to travel today the old pilgrim road of Santiago with even half an eye to its monuments to understand that the French Romanesque style was flooding west along it in the eleventh century . The remainder of the letter dealt with the still unresolved quarrel between Burgos and Toledo over the proper bounds of the former and the still unrestored bishopric of Osma administered by the latter . Archbishop Bernard would have had his former mentor 's enthusiastic support , then , when he approached Urban II about the matter in the summer of 1094 . Not only had they constantly added their status to the authority of the royal charters from the very initiation of the reign but their own proper charters , extended throughout the same period , show the king 's dowager sisters as the possessors of very considerable portions of the dynastic fisc and able to alienate it by their own right . " Such vigor had profound implications for every contemporary monarch in western Europe , yet everywhere the circumstances in which a proper response had to be framed differed somewhat . The society of the medieval west understood the many kinds of power but it invariably turned from them eventually to the only source of proper authority it could conceive .