[1] The latter had been deposed in November 1326, and afterwards cruelly murdered by assassins acting under the orders of Mortimer and Queen Isabella.

Beauchamp had succeeded to the earldom at the age of two, therefore Katherine was styled Countess of Warwick from the time of her marriage until her death.

Two years before her death, in 1367, Katherine was a legatee in the will of her sister Agnes de Hastings, Countess of Pembroke.

Katherine is depicted wearing a frilled nebulée headdress with a honeycomb pattern and she is holding hands with Beauchamp.

[12] The sides of the tomb chest are decorated with figures of mourners, both male and female, in a variety of fashionable clothing.