Catalina Sarsfield

Catalina Sarsfield (born 1697), also styled Catalina von Neuhoff, and briefly as Catalina of Corsica, was queen of Corsica by marriage to Theodore of Corsica, who ruled the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica in 1736.

Biography Catalina Sarsfield born in Nantes on 5 April 1697, the daughter of David Sarsfield and his French wife, Marie d'Athboy. She was niece of Dominick Sarsfield, 4th Viscount Sarsfield. She was a lady in waiting to Queen Elisabeth of Spain. She married Theodore von Neuhoff in 1718. He struggled to satisfy Sarsfield's expensive tastes claiming she was "stubborn and bad-tempered". The couple finally left the service of the Spanish Court around 1725 in unknown circumstances. After a visit to England and Paris with her husband, some sources state that Sarsfield died in Paris around 1727,