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, w
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 in Scotland.
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
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 En
Perkin Warbeck
…France. Spanish ambassadors arrived in Edinburgh, and later Pedro de Ayala was established as a resident ambassador during the crisis. Warbeck married Lady Catherine Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. The marriage was celebrated in Edinburgh with a tournament, possibly on 13 January, Saint Mungo's…
Lady Catherine Gordon before Henry VII (Mary L. Gow, c. 1900)
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