In English, this name, which is derived from Greek may be spelled Catherine, Katherine, Katharine, or Kathryn. Variants from other languages include Catalina (Spanish), Ekaterina (Russian), and Katrina (German).
Among the women known to history as Queen Catherine are:
Katherine Plantagenet (or Catalina de Lancaster) (1372 - 1418), queen consort of Castile and Leon (Spain): daughter of John of Gaunt; sister of Henry IV of England; wife of Henry III of Castile; mother of John II of Castile
Catherine II of Russia (Yekatarina II or Catherine the Great) (1729 - 1796), empress, consort and then regnant, of Russia: daughter of Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst; wife of Peter III of Russia
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CATHERINE OF ARAGON (1485-1536), queen of Henry VIII of England, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, was born on the 15th or 16th of December 1485.
But Catherine with courage and dignity held fast to her rights, demanded a proper trial, and appealed not only to the bull of dispensation, the validity of which was said to be vitiated by certain irregularities, but to a brief granted for the alliance by Pope Julius II.
Subsequently Catherine was removed to Bishops Hatfield, while Henry and Anne Boleyn visited Francis I. Their marriage, anticipating any sentence of the nullity of the union with Catherine, took place after their return about the 25th of January 1533, in consequence of Anne's pregnancy.
Catherine was neither particularly beautiful or intelligent, but she was a charming, flirtatious girl who rose, virtually overnight, from obscurity to become queen of England.
Catherine was raised in a type of dormitory at Lambeth Palace, crowded in with other young girls (some were servants to her grandmother) and her education was not intellectual.
Catherine was a mere child by contrast, barely literate, and born in a later generation.
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