 Sancho the Great considered the city the "imperiale culmen" and minted coins with the inscription "Imperator totius Hispaniae" after being crowned in it.Such a sovereign was considered the most direct representative of the Visigothic kings, who had been themselves the representatives of the Roman Empire.But though appearing in charters, and claimed by Alfonso VI of León and Alfonso the Battler, the title had been little more than a flourish of rhetoric.