 Victoria was also being paid much more at the Descalzas Reales than he would have earned as a cathedral chapelmaster, receiving an annual income from absentee benefices from 1587–1611.When the Empress Maria died in 1603, she willed three chaplaincies in the convent, with one going to Victoria.According to Victoria, he never accepted any extra pay for being a chapelmaster, and became the organist rather than the chapelmaster.