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( 30 ) No bishop was unimportant to the crown but , for the working of the curia , it must be stressed that the four bishops of the meseta together confirmed royal charters almost twice as many times as did the ten other bishops combined . During that period the Leonese monarch nevertheless discovered that the newly asserted authority of Rome had greater and lesser concerns of its own and that bargains could be struck on something like a mutuality of interests . The Palencia document is not an original , to judge by the script and the orthography , and may have been interpolated but the confirmations clearly follow an authentic original . Coimbra in the final weeks of the siege , and the presence also of the bishops of Santiago de Compostela , Orense , Burgos , and Palencia testifies to the character of other contingents . The [ 158 ] younger and more energetic found outlet in athletic feats and mock contests at arms .