Catalina of Motril

Catalina of Motril (fl. 1501–1531), was an enslaved Moorish royal bedchamber servant. 
Catalina of Motril is likely to have been enslaved during the Spanish reconquista, and given the Christian name Catalina when converted into the religion of her captors as was the custom practised by both Christian and Muslim slave owners at the time. She was a part of the train and household of Catherine of Aragon, who arrived in England in 1501 to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales. 
The Moorish slaves in the train of Catherine of Aragon attracted great attention in England, but Catalina of Motril is the only one of them of whom there is some amount of documentation. She is listed in the Household of Catherine as a slave with the task to make Catherine's bed and perform other intimate practical tasks. As slavery was illegal in England at that time, her enslavement would in effect no longer have been considered legal after her arrival. She was still a part of Catherine's household in 1509, as the Spanish Ambassador noted that she witnessed the first intercourse between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII after their wedding. 
In 1531, when Henry VIII issued an investigation to obtain a divorce from Catherine, Catalina of Motril was called to testify that Catherine had not been a virgin on her wedding night. It was stated that she had returned to Spain, where she had married the bow maker Oviedo, with whom she had two daughters and lived with him in Málaga, and that in 1531, she was a widow living in Motril. It is unknown whether she attended the court to testify. 