Walter Map: The Reign Of Henry The Young

However Henry II and Louis VII were not the only kings that Walter Map had met during his life, he also served at the court of the Henry II’s first son: Henry the Young. Walter Map probably joined the court of the future king of England, as others men like Walter de Coutance and William Marshal did, in order to be sure to have a place at the king’s court also in a future where Henry II could be dead; however Walter Map flied away when the Young King rebelled against his own father.
Henry the Young, crowned by his father in 1172 as co-regent of the Kingdom of England and the duchy of Normandy, led one of the main rebellion that Henry II affronted during is reign. During two years, 1173-74, Henry the Young moved war against his father with the support
Defeated but not surrounded he died of dysentery meanwhile he was attending for another conspiracy. This young rebel, whose entire life was a record of disloyalty, found an undoubted popularity among both his contemporaries and the posterity. He is described as being tall, handsome, blond, jovial and graceful, but among all those things his principal quality was his chivalric way of life. The author of William Marshal’s chronicle says that but for the Henry the Young chivalry would have been dead (vv. 2640-41). The Young King’s reputation as a patron of young landless knights increased with his continuously participation in different tournaments. We have to remember that tournaments were prohibited in England by Henry II and the whole chivalric attitude of Henry the Young could be see as a counter-attraction on his father’s policies and imaginary which was strongly centred on the new conceptualization of the royalty growing up al across Europe, a royalty which power is less shared with the nobility (Cantarella, 1997). Therefore as the landless knights were attracted by Henry the Young, the same Henry was attracted by one of