Catherine gives birth to her only child—a…
September 1548 CE
Catherine gives birth to her only child—a daughter, Mary Seymour, named after her stepdaughter—on August 30, 1548, and dies only six days later at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, from what is thought to be puerperal fever or puerperal sepsis, also called childbed fever.
Coincidentally, this illness, which is common due to the lack of hygiene around childbirth, was what had killed Henry's third wife, Jane Seymour.
It has been suspected that Catherine's husband, Sir Thomas Seymour, may have poisoned her in order to carry out his plan to marry Lady Elizabeth.
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