Reasons why Young Henry Rebelled

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Angered that his father would give him no real power - he was habitually disregarded. He was just a 'showpiece figurehead in glittering finery' rather than administratively competent.	His father would not allow him unlimited access to money to fund his lavish lifestyle (he borrowed money from private sources such as Jewish moneylenders - even they regarded YH as a bad risk, since he had no security in land or possessions)
His father and Pope Alexander had made all the decisions about the new archbishopric 1170-2 without consulting him	YH enviously compared his own career to that of his father when a young man: at 16 he had acquired Normandy. YH was nearly two years older and he hadn't acquired half as much responsibility
Due to his sons imperative demands and intrigues with Louis of France, Henry II took back the castes of Chinon, Loundun and Mirebeau - interfering in YH's domain.	Angered when his father planned to endow Anjou, YH's inheritance to his youngest son John, as part of the arrangement of his betrothal to the daughter of the Count of Maurienne

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