Laudabiliter was a papal bull purportedly issued in 1155 by Adrian IV, the only Englishman to serve as Pope, giving the Angevin King Henry II of England the right to assume control over Ireland. It was from the pope that the kings of England, from Henry II (1171) until Henry VIII (1541), derived the title Lord of Ireland. (Later Henry VIII was the first English king to style himself King of Ireland.)