Hey, hey, hey, friend, and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network and the original Tudor history podcast. I've been telling stories

of Tudor England from all the way back in 2009. I'm your host, Heather, and I'm a storyteller

who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are,

our place in the universe, and being so much more deeply in touch with our own humanity. So this is

episode, I think it's 242, and we are going to talk today about Lady Catherine Gordon. Sometimes

people ask me how I come up with ideas for shows and how I decide on things, and I wish that I could tell you that it was really scientific.

And in fact, I do try to do content plans. You know, every month or two, I'll make out a content plan.

But I also try and leave some room for spontaneity. And that is what this is because it occurred to me just randomly.

I saw something about Perkin Warwick online and it occurred to me that I have done an

episode on Perkin Warwick, but I never did an episode on Lady Catherine Gordon, who was

the woman that he was married to.

You know, so many of these women, they just get married, they just kind of get mentioned like,

oh, yeah, and then he married Catherine Gordon. It's like, okay, nice. But who was she? That is what we

are going to answer today. So let's get right into it. So during the reign of Henry the 7th,

a significant and controversial figure emerged, and that would be Perkin Warbock.

Warbeck claimed to be Richard Duke of York, the second son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville,

one of the princes in the tower. This claim was of great importance because it tapped into

the lingering support for the Yorkist cause, which had not entirely

dissipated following Henry the 7th's ascension to the throne. Warbeck's assertion that he was the

rightful heir posed a legitimate threat to Henry the 7th's relatively new reign. The political

landscape of England was, of course, still volatile, and any credible Yorkist claimant had the potential to rally support and destabilize Henry's rule.

So, you know, we talk about this a lot, how we can see Bosworth and maybe Stoke then as being the definitive end of the Wars of the Roses.

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