Francis's daughter and heiress Katherine de Feypo married Thomas Marward in about 1375. Lord Francis's eldest son and heir John de Feipo along with his son, also called John, had died before Francis and Katherine became heiress to Skryne. Robert de Feipo, Katherine's surviving brother must have been somewhat out of sorts as he should have been the rightful heir. There had been de Feypos holding the title of Baron for five generations. Robert lived in Santry Castle near
Dunboyne and his descendants also used the title Baron Skryne. When the Marwards first adopted the title Baron Skryne is uncertain, but it was certainly before 1414, when Thomas Marward, Baron Skryne, was killed taking part in putting down a
rebellion by O'Connor Fahy. His son, also called Thomas, being a minor, was made a Royal
ward, and in 1422 King
Henry VI of England granted the wardship to
Stephen de Bray, the
Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. A few years later Anne Marward, described as the daughter of Baron Skryne (almost certainly Richard, who died in 1478), married as his first wife Sir
Alexander Plunket (died 1503), a future
Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Walter Marward, Baron Skryne (died 1487), who was probably Anne's brother, was apparently a man of some consequence, who married Margaret St Lawrence, daughter of the powerful
Anglo-Irish peer and statesman
Christopher St Lawrence, 2nd Baron Howth. After Skryne's death, she remarried Sir
William Darcy of Platten, another leading Anglo-Irish statesman and writer on political issues.
William Nugent, the second son of Richard,
Baron Delvin, married Janet Marward, only daughter and heiress of Walter Marward, baron of Skryne, who died c. 1565, and inherited with this marriage the manor of
Santry among other possessions. In the sixteenth century, the Marward family were involved in two notable scandals. In 1534 James Marward, Baron Skryne, grandson of Walter and Margaret, was murdered by Richard FitzGerald, younger son of
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, supposedly at the instigation of James' wife, Maud Darcy, who later married Fitzgerald. James left an only son Thomas (or Walter) who died about 1565, leaving a daughter and heiress, Janet, titular Barones of Skryne. Her mother, Janet Plunket, daughter of Sir
John Plunket, remarried the leading judge
Nicholas Nugent, who was given
wardship of his step-daughter. Nugent apparently conspired with his favourite nephew,
William Nugent to
kidnap Janet and force her into marriage with William. Despite the scandal surrounding the marriage, it could not be dissolved. William died in 1625 and Janet in 1629. ==Forfeiture of the Barony==