Lady Catherine Gordon 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 are no records of any surviving children.
Lady Catherine "Duchess of York" was captured at St. Michael's Mount on the Cornish coast in 1497
After 1512, Lady Catherine lived at Fyfield Manor, Oxfordshire
St Nicholas, Fyfield, is believed to be the resting place of Lady Catherine and her 4th husband, Christopher Ashton
Perkin Warbeck 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". 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 point that had been previously contested by his uncle, King Richard III.
16th-century copy by Jacques Le Boucq of the only known contemporary portrait of Warbeck, Library of Arras
Perkin Warbeck spent Christmas 1495 at Linlithgow Palace.
Perkin Warbeck and James IV prayed for victory at Restalrig
Painting of rebels under Perkin Warbeck as they attempt to burn Exeter's West gate by Mary Drew c1900 and 1920 in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum's fine art collection
