In 1541 Henry VIII made Ireland into a kingdom again upon the death of the last High Stewart of Ireland, George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and decided to proclaim a personal union of the two lands. Though Ireland was considered Papal land under temporal English control, the Pope Gregory XIII couldn't really oppose, he already had problem with the reformational movement. To partially stamp the spread of irish resistance, so he gave the title Earl of Tyrone to the powerful Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone to appease him. Around this time he finished the conquest of Ireland by taking down the last independent lords.