Treaty of Windsor | 1175 |
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Treaty of York | 1237 |
Treaty of Perth | 1266 |
Treaty of Montgomery | 1267 |
Treaty of Aberconwy | 1277 |
Statute of Rhuddlan | 1284 |
Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton | 1328 |
Treaty of Berwick | 1357 |
Poynings' Law | 1495 |
Laws in Wales Acts | 1535–42 |
Crown of Ireland Act | 1542 |
Treaty of Edinburgh | 1560 |
Union of the Crowns | 1603 |
Union of England and Scotland Act | 1603 |
Act of Settlement | 1701 |
Act of Security | 1704 |
Alien Act | 1705 |
Treaty of Union | 1706 |
Acts of Union | 1707 |
Personal Union of 1714 | 1714 |
Wales and Berwick Act | 1746 |
Irish Constitution | 1782 |
Acts of Union | 1800 |
Government of Ireland Act | 1920 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty | 1921 |
Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act | 1927 |
N. Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act | 1972 |
Northern Ireland Assembly | 1973 |
N. Ireland Constitution Act | 1973 |
Northern Ireland Act | 1998 |
Government of Wales Act | 1998 |
Scotland Act | 1998 |
Government of Wales Act | 2006 |
Scotland Act | 2012 |
Edinburgh Agreement | 2012 |
Scotland Act | 2016 |
The Crown of Ireland Act 1542 is an Act of the Parliament of Ireland (33 Hen. 8 c. 1) which created the title of King of Ireland for King Henry VIII of England and his successors, who previously ruled the island as lords.
The long title of the Act was "An Act that the King of England, his Heirs and Successors, be Kings of Ireland". Among the 18th-century Irish Patriot Party it was called the Act of Annexation.
One of the earlier Christian overkingdoms, the Holy See of Rome, in 1171 abolished the High Kingship of Ireland (of 9th-century origin, successor to the Kingship of Tara) and devalued the ancient Kingdoms of Ireland.
Under a Papal Bull, the ancient realm was disestablished and turned into a feudal Province of the Secretariat of State of the Roman Catholic Church under the temporal power of the monarch of England who henceforth held the title Lord of Ireland, relinquishing to the Papacy annual the tribute levied upon the nobility and people of Ireland.
The Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, on 18 June 1541, being read out to parliament in English and Irish.