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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 . The king now ruled over a court inevitably influenced by the commanding role of his daughters Urraca and Teresa as the senior female members of the dynasty . This transition was accompanied by the gradual rise in influence of the daughters of Alfonso , who with their husbands now became the [ 280 ] central personages of the dynasty after the king himself . 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 . But the expedient proved ultimately to be futile as Jimena gave birth to two children only , who survived , and both were daughters . For the first time he had sought a bride other than one of the daughters of the south French feudal princes whose relatives might be of occasional help . The departure of substantial numbers of Muslim from the most mobile classes , the property owners , who preferred not to live under Christian rule or who simply did not trust the guarantees made by Alfonso , was augmented surely by those who were quietly intimidated into leaving by the conquerors who coveted their holdings . Twelve different clerks , ordinarily styling themselves notaries , prepared royal charters in this period but two of them prepared sixteen of the thirty .