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Catherine Braithwaite

Catherine Braithwaite is a major character and supporting antagonist featured in Red Dead Redemption 2. She serves as the main antagonist of the game's Clemens Point chapter.

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In Red Dead Redemption 2, Catherine Braithwaite is the matriarch of the Braithwaite family, residing at Braithwaite Manor in Scarlett Meadows, Lemoyne. She has a business relationship with Angelo Bronte and runs an illicit moonshine trade with the Lemoyne Raiders. Her interaction with the game's characters includes a scenario where Hosea and Arthur attempt to sell her own stolen liquor back to her.
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In Red Dead Redemption 2, Catherine Braithwaite and the Gray family are opposing factions. The Braithwaite family, with Catherine as a key figure, maintain a rivalry and antagonistic relationship with the Grays.
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In Red Dead Redemption 2, Catherine Braithwaite's brooch is a unique item of value. Found on her corpse at Braithwaite Manor after the 'Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern' mission, it can be sold for a significant sum. The brooch cannot be re-acquired once sold or donated, highlighting its rarity and value.
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As the head of the Braithwaite family, Catherine Braithwaite operated an unauthorized moonshine business, supplying the Lemoyne Raiders. She dominated the moonshine industry in Lemoyne, collaborating with Maggie Fike and Danny-Lee Caton. To weaken her rivals, the Grays, she funded Hosea and Arthur to give away stolen moonshine at the Gray's saloon in Rhodes. Additionally, she masterminded the destruction of the Gray's tobacco fields at Caliga Hall.
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History[]

Background[]

She is the matriarch and eldest member of the wealthy Braithwaite family, the rivals of the Gray family.

At some point before 1899, Catherine Braithwaite began selling moonshine to the Lemoyne Raiders through an illegitimate side business. She also became acquainted with Angelo Bronte.

Events of Red Dead Redemption 2[]

Catherine is first seen at the Braithwaite manor when Hosea and Arthur arrive to sell her back the liquor the Van der Linde gang previously stole from her. Catherine instead hires them to give out the liquor for free at the bar in Rhodes, for some "promotional advertising". While distributing the liquor in town, Hosea and Arthur are ambushed by the Lemoyne Raiders. Whether or not this was Catherine's plan is unclear.

After negotiating with Hosea over a game of cribbage, Mrs. Braithwaite hires Arthur and Sean to burn down the Gray tobacco fields using the stolen moonshine.

She eventually double-crosses the gang and kidnaps Jack Marston. When Dutch and the rest of the gang arrive to her manor to retrieve Jack, a shootout ensues which results in all of her sons being killed. After the gang lights the Braithwaite estate on fire, she reveals that she sold Jack to the notorious crime lord Angelo Bronte in Saint Denis. As the gang leave, she runs back into the burning mansion in an act of self-immolation and dies.

After the assault on Braithwaite Manor, her charred corpse can be found in the wreckage of her home, unrecognizable aside from the name.

Character[]

Personality[]

Catherine displays a typical attitude of a snobbish elite from the old wealthy family. She has a strong sense of superiority, calling people whom she considers beneath her as "filth" or "scum". Naturally, what with belonging to an old plantation family, Catherine despises "Yankees", using the term as a pejorative. Still, while certainly arrogant, she is far from foolish, eventually catching on to the Van der Linde gang's machinations.

Mrs. Braithwaite is highly invested in her heritage and family, expressing fury at Dutch for murdering her sons and trying to topple the dynasty. Along this vein, she seems to prioritize her family's reputation even at the cost of their wellbeing, as she kept her disfigured and mentally ill daughter in an outhouse rather than have her sent to a sanitarium. It is implied that Catherine is also passionate about horses as she owns several expensive horses and is enraged at their disappearance; this implies either a sentimental value or a show of wealth and power.

Appearance[]

Catherine is an elderly woman with dark gray hair. She wears a brooch around her neck along with other fancy clothes.

Mission appearances[]

Red Dead Redemption 2

Trivia[]

  • An item named “Catherine’s Brooch” can be looted from her corpse and sold to a Fence for a reasonable price.
  • Catherine Braithwaite is briefly mentioned by Josiah Trelawny in Red Dead Online where he tasks players to steal a horse from her and deliver it to his contact at Hill Haven Ranch.

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