Death and Burial
Queen Catherine died at Valladolid on 2 June 1418, of a stroke, leaving her thirteen year-old son at the mercy of self-interested courtiers. She is buried with her husband in the Capilla de los Reyes Nuevos in Cathedral of Toledo. Her monumental effigy shows her with a long face and a highly arched forehead.
Catherine of Lancaster's great-granddaughter Catherine of Aragon, first of the six wives of Henry VIII of England, was named after her.
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