Causes of the Great Rebellion
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- Causes of the Great Rebellion
- Young Henry
- Theocratic strength: re-crowned King Designate 1172
- Lack practical skill
- Lacked the 'charismatic kingship of his father'
- Henry refused to allow YH access to power or means to secure an independent income
- Instead left governance of England to chief justiciar Richard de Luci
- Henry's granting of key French castles to John as inheritance incensed YH
- Demanded he immediately be given control over either England or Normandy. Henry refused.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Her public separation of Henry prompted by his many public affairs
- By now in her mid-40s. Likely to have felt she had earned the right to be duchess of Aquitaine suo jue.
- Suo jue = 'in her own right'
- Henry was reluctant to cede control over Aquitaine to Eleanor
- Henry still used the formal title 'Duke of Aquitaine' rather than giving it to Richard
- Louis VII
- Louis did his job 'clumsily' (Poole)
- Motivation due to YH's betrothal to Margaret
- Increased practical power of YH
- Conceivable that Henry would outlive Louis and Philip may be a boy-king who had to contend with the macchinations of Henry. Therefore the disintegration of the Angevin Empire was attractive.
- Louis was 13 years' senior to Henry FitzEmpress
- Philip of France had been born to Louis at a relatively late point in Louis' life
- Louis was 13 years' senior to Henry FitzEmpress
- Henry had had an adversarial relationship with Louis for years.
- Barons
- Those that rebelled did so on the grounds of personal grievance
- Rebel barons were in the minority.
- Threatened to cut off Henry's support from the north
- Richard de Luci stormed Leicester
- Scotland
- William the Lion added to severity through geographical scale
- Weak leadership. Loyalty of Northern barons and troops led to his defeat. Treaty of Falaise ensured William's acceptance of Henry as his feudal overlord.
- Henry's good fortune: William was captured the day after Henry's penance, implying that God and Becket were on Henry's side.
- Opportunism
- Richard
- Henry refused to relinquish control of Aquitaine. Encouraged by his mother Eleanor to rebel.
- Young Henry
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