page_title: Lady Catherine Gordon
section_title: Perkin Warbeck
hierarchical_section_title: Lady Catherine Gordon / Family / Perkin Warbeck
caption_attribution_description: English: Fyfield Manor House, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire)
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 4 March 1497, Lady Catherine was given in marriage to the pretender Perkin Warbeck, who was favoured by  King James IV of Scotland for political reasons, and who had apparently been courting her since 1495, as a love letter from him to the very beautiful Lady Catherine has been preserved in the Spanish State Letters, vol, i, p. 78. 
  James IV gave Perkin Warbeck a 'spousing goune' of white damask for the wedding at Edinburgh, and the celebrations included a tournament. Warbeck wore armour covered with purple brocade. Lady Catherine followed her husband's fortunes and was styled the Duchess of York; she was taken prisoner at St. Michael's Mount after King Henry's forces captured Warbeck's Cornish army at Exeter in 1497. On 15 October 1497 there is record of a payment of £7 13s. 4d. to Robert Southwell for horses, saddles and other necessities for the transportation of "my Lady Kateryn Huntleye." Her husband was hanged at Tyburn on 23 November 1499. Lady Catherine was kept a virtual prisoner by King Henry who placed her in the household of his wife, Elizabeth of York, where she became a favorite lady-in-waiting. Initially, Henry VII paid some of her expenses from his privy purse.
  In the privy purse accounts her name was recorded as "Lady Kateryn Huntleye." Henry VII gave Lady Catherine gifts of clothing. These clothes included, in November 1501, clothes of cloth-of-gold furred with ermine, a purple velvet gown, and a black hood in the French style; in April 1502, black and crimson velvet for gown and black kersey for stockings; and in November 1502, black satin, and other black cloth, to be trimmed with mink (from her own stock) and miniver, with a crimson bonnet. On 25 January 1503 Catherine attended the ceremony of marriage between James IV and Margaret Tudor at Richmond Palace. James was represented by the Earl of Bothwell as his proxy.
  In February 1503, Lady Catherine was a Mourner at the funeral of Queen Consort Elizabeth, arriving in a "chair", a carriage, with the Lady Fitzwalter and Lady Mountjoy. The train of her dress was carried by the Queen's mother-in-law, the Countess of Derby. Lady Catherine made the offerings at the masses and with 37 other ladies placed a "pall", an embroidered cloth, on the coffin at Westminster Abbey.
  In 1510, Lady Catherine obtained letters of denization and that same year, on 8 August, was given a grant of the manors of Philberts at Bray, and Eaton at Appleton, both then in Berkshire. Two years later she acquired along with her husband the manor of 'Fiffhede', Fyfield, and upon surrender of patent of 8 August the three manors were all re-granted to Lady Catherine Gordon with the proviso she could not leave England, for Scotland or other foreign lands, without license.
caption: After 1512, Lady Catherine lived at Fyfield Manor, Oxfordshire
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