 Since the Spanish conquest, each time a bishop vacancy occurred, either the cathedral chapter of Pamplona, or later the "Diputacion", would request a Navarrese bishop, but to no avail.For example, in 1539 an extensive report insisted on choosing a native ecclesiastic for the position on a number of accounts, one of them being that he could speak Basque and would be obeyed by his subjects, "for his native origin and because the Basque people, the main part of the kingdom, love like no other nation their own nature and language.