Catherine Douglas

Catherine Douglas, later Barlass, was a 15th-century Scottish noblewoman who tried to prevent the assassination of King James I of Scotland on 20 February 1437.

The King's Chamberlain, Robert Stewart, Master of Atholl, had removed the bolt from the door of the room in which James and his queen were staying.

[2] James fled into a sewer tunnel as the queen and her ladies quickly replaced the floorboards to hide his location.

[4] However, they forced the door open anyway, breaking Catherine's arm, and discovered and killed the King.

[5] Dante Gabriel Rossetti recounted the story of Catherine Douglas in verse in 1881, under the title "The King's Tragedy".