Editing Counties of Ireland (section)

===Passage to the Crown===
Of the original lordships or palatine counties:
*Leinster had passed from Richard de Clare to his daughter, [[Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke|Isabel de Clare]], who had married [[William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke]] (second creation of title). This marriage was confirmed by [[John, King of England|King John]], with Isabel's lands given to William as consort. The liberty was afterwards divided into five—Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leix and Wexford—one for each of Marshal's co-heiresses.<ref name="Falkiner175"/>
*Meath was divided between the granddaughters of [[Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath|Walter de Lacy]]: [[Maud de Lacy, Baroness Geneville|Maud]] and Margery. Maud's half became the liberty of Trim, and she married [[Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville|Geoffrey de Geneville]]. Margery's half retained the name Meath, and she married John de Verdon. After the marriage of Maud's daughter [[Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville|Joan]] to [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March]], Trim later passed via their descendants to the English Crown. Meath, which had passed to the Talbots, was resumed by [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] under the [[Statute of Absentees]].<ref name="Falkiner175"/>
*Ulster was regranted to the de Lacys from John de Courcy, whilst Connaught, which had been granted to [[William de Burgh]], was at some point divided into the liberties of Connaught and Roscommon. William's grandson [[Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster|Walter de Burgh]] was in 1264 also made lord of Ulster, bringing both Connaught and Ulster under the same lord. In 1352 [[Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster]] married [[Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence|Lionel of Antwerp]], a son of king [[Edward III of England|Edward III]]. Their daughter [[Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster|Philippa]] married [[Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March]]. Upon the death of [[Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March]] in 1425, both lordships were inherited by [[Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York]] and thus passed to the Crown.<ref name="Falkiner175"/>
*Tipperary was resumed by King [[James VI and I|James I]], however under [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] in 1662 was reconstituted for [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde]].<ref name="Falkiner177">{{harv|Falkiner|1903|p=[https://archive.org/details/proceedingsroya29acadgoog/page/176/mode/2up?view=theater 177]}}</ref>

With the passing of liberties to the Crown, the number of Counties of the Cross declined, and only one, Tipperary, survived into the Stuart era; the others had ceased to exist by the reign of Henry VIII.<ref name="Falkiner179"/>