Why were relationships between the monarchs and the nobles were often problematic in the Age of Absolutism in Europe? 1650-1720

Answer 1

During the Age of Absolutism, monarchs sought to consolidate their own power by taking away from the political power of the nobles. Louis XIV in France, for example, took many measures to preoccupy nobles in his court at Versailles so that they wouldn't be able to maintain firm control of the local areas that they claimed jurisdiction over.