Ursula of Brandenburg

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Ursula von Brandenburg (born September 25, 1450 , † November 25, 1508 in Breslau ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Münsterberg and Oels and Countess of Glatz .

Life

Ursula was the oldest child of the Brandenburg Elector Albrecht Achilles (1414–1486) from his first marriage to Margarete von Baden (1431–1457). The princess was considered the father's favorite child and one of the most prominent victims of the toe in the 15th century. First promised to the Saxon Duke Albrecht , it was passed on to his older brother Ernst after the engagement was broken, but this engagement was also broken. The next candidate for marriage was Duke Heinrich the Elder. Ä. von Münsterberg (1448–1498), son of the Bohemian King George of Podebrady . In 1466, Pope Paul II disapproved of this engagement as a “blasphemous association with a heretic” and Ursula and her father were banned from church . The relationship between Brandenburg and Emperor Friedrich III. got worse because of the marriage. Georg von Podiebrad and Albrecht Achilles then concluded a protective and defensive alliance against all opponents of marriage.

Ursula then secretly got engaged to Count Rudolf III without her father's knowledge. von Sulz, Landgrave in Klettgau. After the papal solution to this marriage promise, she finally married Duke Heinrich the Elder on February 9, 1467 in Eger . Ä. from Münsterberg. In 1471 the ban imposed on Ursula and her father was lifted again.

progeny

Ursula had the following children from her marriage to Heinrich:

  • Albrecht I (1468–1511), Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
⚭ 1487 Princess Salome (1475 / 76–1514), daughter of the Sagan Duke Johann II.
  • Georg I (1470–1502), Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
⚭ 1488 Princess Hedwig (1476–1524), also a daughter of Duke John II of Sagan
  • Johann (1472–1497)
  • Margaret (1473-1530)
⚭ 1494 Prince Ernst of Anhalt-Zerbst (1454–1516)
⚭ 1488 Princess Anna (1480 / 83–1541), also a daughter of the Sagan Duke Johann II.
  • Ludwig (1478–1489)
  • Magdalena (1482-1513)
  • Sidonie (1483–1522)
⚭ 1515 Ulrich von Hardegg († 1535)

swell

  • Duchess Ursula von Münsterberg to her stepmother, Margravine Anna von Brandenburg . Bald. 1467 April 12 . In: Georg Steinhausen ( edit .): Monuments of German cultural history , Bd. I / 1 German private letters of the Middle Ages . R. Gärtner, Berlin 1899, No. 109, p. 81 ( Google Books ; limited preview)

literature

  • Andreas Rüther : Ursula, Duchess of Münsterberg and Oels (1450–1508) . In: Joachim Bahlcke : Schlesische Lebensbilder , Volume XI, Insingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7686-3513-4 , pp. 55–72
  • Karl Friedrich Pauli: General Prussian State History, except for the current government , Volume 1, 1761, p. 369
  • Samuel Buchholtz: Attempting a history of the Churmarck Brandenburg , FW Birnstiel, 1767, p. 216
  • Heidelberg Year Books of Literature , Volume 55, Mohr and Zimmer, 1862, p. 820 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingo Materna , Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): Brandenburg history. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 , p. 206.
  2. ^ Georg H. Nicolovius: Memories of the Electors of Brandenburg , Perthes, 1838, p. 25
  3. ^ At the time of publication in the house archive in Charlottenburg.
personal data
SURNAME Ursula of Brandenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Münsterberg and Oels, Countess of Glatz
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1450
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1508
Place of death Wroclaw