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The former are marked in the reconstruction of the church hierarchy and the elaboration of mints . As was true of the monarchy elsewhere in western Europe in the eleventh century , government must be understood in a quite restricted and largely passive sense . We cannot be sure that such was the case in the early twelfth century , but we can see that such was the policy of Alfonso VI in this penultimate effort of his last years . ( 47 ) Again no [ 155 ] well-ordered troupe of this size can have ventured far in the eleventh century without that jack of all trades , the armorer-blacksmith . Any prudent magnate must expect a regency of fair duration in the not too distant future , and chief among the regents would be counts Raymond and Henry , each married to a daughter of the king and perhaps with sons of their own by that time . The later drive of Santiago to displace Braga as metropolitan of the province was already implicit in it . It can only be observed that , in a marginal and almost totally agricultural society such as was the Christian north of Iberia in the eleventh [ 205 ] century , all were easily exhausted and renewable only as the slow and unhurriable rhythms of nature allowed . 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 . It has been asserted that this magnate accompanied the expedition of 1087 , but his latest historians have been unable to document that statement . Cluny earlier than Rome had formulated its inspiration in a life and liturgy and organization of remarkable attractive power by the beginning of the eleventh century .