Lady Katherine Percy (May 18, 1423 – c. 1475) was the daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville.
Her maternal grandparents were Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort, a legitimized daughter of John of Gaunt.
She married Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and had seven children:
- Mary Grey (1440–1474)
- Anthony Grey (1446–1480)
- Elizabeth Grey (d. 1472) married Sir Robert Greystoke
- Anne Grey (b. 1450) married John Grey, 8th Baron Grey de Wilton
- George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent (1454–1505) married Anne Woodville
- John Grey (1455–1484)
- Edmund Grey (b. 1457)
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