Henry, then, on this occasion eluded one legation and welcomed another. In 1172 he met the friendly cardinals at Avranches, took all the oaths they proposed, renounced the Constitutions of Clarendon, purged himself of the guilt of Becket’s death, declared his adherence to Alexander III., as Catholic Pope, in refutation of the statement that he had acknowledged the anti-Pope, and received full absolution. He then, by way of general pacification, had his son re-crowned and his wife crowned with him and went down to the South of France to make a lasting peace with the Count of Toulouse, and to bargain for the marriage of John with the heiress of the county of Maurienne and Savoy. [Sidenote: Quarrel of the two Henrys. ] The storm seemed to have blown over; unfortunately the lull preceded the great outbreak. Strange to say, the immediate occasion for the strife was the little boy John, the five-year-old bridegroom. All his great enemies Henry had silenced; Lewis had got his daughter crowned, the Pope was pacified, the barons were secured by the strength of the home government, the Scots were humble and obliging, all the sons were friends. The little child who in the end broke his heart was already a stumbling-block. The Count of Maurienne naturally asked what provision was to be made by Henry for his son’s marriage. Henry found himself obliged to ask his elder sons to give up for their brother some few castles out of their promised shares of his dominions. The eldest son refused; he would give up nothing; he had got nothing by being crowned, he was not trusted to go about alone; let the king give him some real power, England or Normandy, then he might have something that he could give up. The ill-conditioned lad nursed his grievance, and, early in the spring of 1173, fled from his father’s court and threw himself into the arms of Lewis. Queen Eleanor too, whose influence with her husband was lessened by her misguidance of her children, and by the evil habits which Henry himself had contracted during the Becket quarrel, used all her influence to increase the breach in her family. She intrigued with her first husband against her second, and brought even Richard into the list of his father’s enemies. [Sidenote: Great league against Henry, 1173. ]