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Although much time would have to pass before it would become clear whether or not the infant would survive , for the mortality rate in the first year was on the order of one in four during the period , his birth at once distanced Raymond , Urraca , and their possible progeny from that succession to the throne which had recently seemed so secure . So it was that at the center of dozens of incipient intrigues sat the king , old and even venerable by the standard of the day , but nonetheless the undeniable and absolutely essential factor in every hope . His collaboration with Rome , for it can scarcely be regarded as anything other , sprang from the same complex roots as his cooperation [ 377 ] with Cluny . Of all the bishops who served in the royal court at one time or another only Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo can be reliably associated with an intellectual achievement in his own right . In brief , the intellectual tools with which the eleventh-century monarchy functioned were as rude as its institutional and military ones . Alfonso VI would have been busy trying to control this pro cess but we should not be sanguine about his ability to do so , especially outside the city itself . Moreover , his own sympathies as a former Cluniac must have been automatically with the arguments of a fellow Cluniac supported by the venerable Hugh the Great himself .