page_title: Lady Catherine Gordon
section_title: Subsequent marriages
hierarchical_section_title: Lady Catherine Gordon / Family / Subsequent marriages
caption_attribution_description: English: St Nicholas, Fyfield Grade 2* listed building erected in the 13th century.
context_page_description: 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 she had any surviving children.
context_section_description: Before 13 February 1512, she married James Strangeways of Fyfield, a gentleman usher of the King's Chamber. The couple endowed a chantry priest to sing for the souls of their parents at St Mary Overie at Southwark in London,  where James Strangeways, James's father was buried. In 1517, she married her third husband, Matthew Craddock of Swansea, Steward of Gower and Seneschal of Kenfig, who died c. July 1531. Matthew Craddock's will notes the jewels and silver that Lady Catherine owned before they were married. These included a girdle with a pomander, a heart of gold, a fleur-de-lis of diamonds, and a gold cross with nine diamonds. He bequeathed her an income from the lands of Dinas Powys and Llanedeyrn near Cardiff.
  Her fourth and last husband was Christopher Ashton of Fyfield also then in Berkshire.  She is not recorded as having any surviving children; however, she had two stepchildren by Ashton's previous marriage.
  According to biographer David Loades, Lady Catherine was head of Mary Tudor's  Privy Chamber until 1530.
  When not at Court, Catherine resided at Fyfield Manor, except during her marriage to Craddock when she gained permission to live in Wales. Catherine made her will on 12 October 1537, and died soon after. She was buried in the church of St Nicholas at Fyfield, with a monument, including brass figures (now lost). Matthew Craddock had previously erected a chest monument for himself and "Mi Ladi Katerin" with their effigies in St Mary's Church, Swansea.  The carved heraldry included emblems of the Gordon and Hay family. Both Catherine's mother and paternal grandmother were members of the Hay family.
caption: St Nicholas, Fyfield, is believed to be the resting place of Lady Catherine and her 4th husband, Christopher Ashton
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