William Nugent
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William Nugent was a Hiberno-Norman Irish rebel in the 16th century Kingdom of Ireland, brother of Christopher, fourteenth baron of Delvin, and the younger son of Richard Nugent, thirteenth baron of D
Ross Castle, County Meath, was William Nugent's castle on the shores of Lough Sheelin.
William Nugent's headstone
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Baron Skryne
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Baron Skryne was the title of the holder of an Irish feudal barony: the title derived from the parish of Skryne, or Skreen, in County Meath. It was not recognised as a barony in the Peerage of Ireland
William Nugent
…Baron of Navan. He first acquired notoriety in December 1573 by his forcible abduction and marriage of Jane (Janet) Marward, an heiress and the titular Baroness Skryne, and ward of his uncle, Nicholas Nugent. He was for a short time in May 1575 placed under restraint on suspicion of being implicated in the refusal of…
Sixteenth-century tombstone of the Marward family, barons of Skryne (Skreen).