The Catalin family was a political family on Naboo that rose and fell in power over the history of the planet. They were left weakened after the war of the tenth and ninth century BBY, but later, in the 7th century, they married into the Jafan dynasty and regained their old position for another century, before Queen Mollabelli's suspicions of them damaged their reputation and sent them back into decline. They began to rise again in the 3rd century BBY, and in 150 BBY, on the death of Queen Gradana, one of their members, Fromlissé Catalin, was elected to the throne. She abandoned the old family regal name of Votsandorsi for the simpler name of Votorina, which has been used by the family since.