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Ursula of Brandenburg

This article is about the Duchess of Mecklenburg. For the Duchess of Münsterberg and Oels and Countess of Glatz, see Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels.

Ursula of Brandenburg
Born(1488-10-17)17 October 1488
Berlin
Died18 September 1510(1510-09-18) (aged 21)
Güstrow
BuriedDoberan Minster
Noble familyHouse of Hohenzollern
Spouse(s)Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg
FatherJohn Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
MotherMargarethe of Saxony

Ursula, Margravine of Brandenburg (17 October 1488 – 18 September 1510) was a German noblewoman.[1]

She was born in Berlin, the daughter of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, and Margarethe of Saxony.

At age 19, on 16 February 1507 she married Duke Henry V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1479–1552).[2] They had three children:

  1. Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1508–1541), married Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  2. Magnus III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1509–1550) (predeceased his father)
  3. Ursula of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (30 August 1510 – 22 April 1586), abbess of Ribnitz

She died in Güstrow in 1510 at the age of 21, less than a month after the birth of her third child.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Stieber, Georg Friedrich (1716). Leben des Hertzogs Magni zu Mecklenburg, ersten evangelischen Bischoffs zu Schwerin (in German). p. 6. OCLC 1181142714.
  2. ^ Netherlands), Mauritshuis (Hague; Broos, B. P. J.; Suchtelen, Ariane van (2004). Portraits in the Mauritshuis: 1430-1790. Royal Picture Gallery. p. 33. ISBN 978-90-400-9000-4.


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_of_Brandenburg