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For a time , the ability of the crown to make its influence felt everywhere had slackened and so attendance on the king had rather less point . We cannot tell , and in truth it is not essential to our understanding to know , if the Cid missed his rendezvous with the king in 1088 by simply misunderstanding , or because at some point he decided that Aledo would withstand the siege without him , or because he considered his continued presence vital in the Levant . After all , there was no point in the journey that was not the objective in the political sense as well as a way station . The third was the political skill to reconcile and channel the energies and ambitions of the kingdom he already ruled so as to allow the concentration of its resources for the conquest of a new one . ( 71 ) The precarious character of the reform party 's hold on the papacy at this point is reflected in the fact that apparently Urban had no available records of what his predecessors had or had not done in regard to Spain . So too we can posit the attendance of Count Henry of Portugal and his wife Teresa . Galicia , Asturias , and even Astorga , though integral parts of the kingdom , were increasingly peripheral to its fundamental polities , as the uneven attendance of their respective prelates demonstrates . The king 's eldest daughter might have been only an emergent twelve years old then , but by 1099 she would have been seventeen and a mature woman by the reckoning of the age . Galicia , behind its mountain shield , had become almost a third power rather than a province , ruled in uneasy alliance by the bishop of Compostela and Count Pedro Froilaz . The inability of Teresa of Portugal to compel the attendance of Coimbra and Braga is a commentary on her weakness at this time . Alfonso 's energetic actions in the trans-Duero in 1078 and in the Tajo valley in 1079 reinforced the prestige of the crown at a critical point . A reasonable estimate would have it comprised of an average of four notaries and perhaps two minor clerics , a majordomo , three bishops fairly regularly present and an average of two other bishops from one see or another whose attendance is occasional , and a group of eight great nobles regularly present with perhaps another dozen whose presence also varies with the occasion or location .