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Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1474 –October 1537) was a Scottish noblewoman and the wife of Yorkist pretender Perkin Warbeck, who claimed he was Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. After her imprisonment by King Henry VII of England, she became a favoured lady-in-waiting of his wife, Elizabeth of York. She had a total of four husbands, but there ...
Lady Catherine Gordon Perkin Warbeck ( c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York , who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called " Princes in the Tower ".
Clothes were also made for her companion, Lady Catherine Gordon, the widow of Perkin Warbeck. [9] The clothes were embroidered by John Flee. [ 10 ] In May 1503, James IV confirmed her possession of lands and houses in Scotland, including Methven Castle , Stirling Castle , Doune Castle , Linlithgow Palace and Newark Castle in Ettrick Forest ...
Lady Catherine Gordon (died October 1537), probably a daughter of Elizabeth Hay, she married firstly, Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499), notorious for claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the young princes who disappeared from history in the Tower of London; she married secondly, James Strangeways of Fyfield (d. 1515); she ...
Title page from an 1857 edition of Perkin Warbeck. The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance is an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck.The book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury.
Warbeck claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was dead, and that he was legitimate – a contentious point.
Patrick Gibson as Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English crown who claims to be Richard of York. Caroline Goodall as Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, the Queen's paternal grandmother. Goodall was the only actor to appear in both The White Queen and The White Princess. Amy Manson as Catherine "Cathy" Gordon, wife of Perkin Warbeck
It was granted for life to Lady Catherine Gordon, the widow of the pretender Perkin Warbeck, who married Christopher Ashton and came to Fyfield in 1531. In 1554 the remainder was granted to Sir Thomas White , who gave it to his new foundation of St John's College, Oxford , which has held it ever since.