 A royal diploma of 1084 refers to his having "convoked the bishops and abbots and also primates of my empire" for a synod.From 1088 there is also a direct reference to the "whole empire of Spain and kingdom of Toledo".Besides these there are the four contemporary references to Alfonso as "Toletani imperii magnificus triunphator" ("magnificent conqueror of the empire of Toledo") and the reference by Sancho Ramírez to the plot of his brother the bishop to favour the "empire of Alfonso" ("Anfusi imperium").