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The pope launched his campaign against traditional Spanish religious forms in March 1074 by praising the king of Aragon for his success in imposing the Roman liturgy throughout his realm. 60 Alfonso appeared personally willing to comply and to this end arranged a judicial duel to decide the issue. In a detail that warns against ethnic generalising, the Castilian knight defending the local liturgy triumphed over the Mozarabic champion of Roman novelty. ’61 The intensity of the campaign increased in 1080 when the papal legate, Cardinal Richard of St Victor in Marseilles, convened an ecclesiastical council at Burgos.
While there, and no doubt with his aunt’s support, Duke Eudes entered into marriage negotiations on behalf of his brother-in-law, Count Raymond of Amous, for the hand of Infanta Urraca. These arrangements were carried through successfully and, in what was nothing short of a coup for the foreign interests in the Spanish court, the count of Amous was betrothed to the king’s sole legitimate daughter. 91 Consequently, as a result of foreign influences in the dynastic politics of a distant royal court, the Portuguese suddenly found themselves given into the authority of an unfamiliar Burgundian nobleman.
Meanwhile, the day-to-day administration of the county rested in the safe hands of Soeiro Mendes of Maia, the governor of Coimbra and perhaps also the guardian of the young Infanta Teresa until her coming of age. 9 Even as Count Henry was thus attempting to balance his Portuguese responsibilities with his interests in the Leonese court, developments in the ecclesiastical sphere were creating further opportunities for local unrest. The final decades of the eleventh century had been a difficult time for the clergy of Braga.