Ursula of Brandenburg (1488–1510)

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Ursula von Brandenburg (born October 17, 1488 in Berlin , † September 18, 1510 in Güstrow ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg .

Life

Grave monument of Ursula von Brandenburg and Magnus III. (third and first name from the bottom of the first row)

Ursula was the youngest daughter of the Brandenburg Elector Johann Cicero (1455–1499) from his marriage to Margarete (1449–1501), daughter of Duke Wilhelm III. of Saxony .

On February 16, 1507 she married Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg (1479–1552). She died shortly after giving birth to her third child, three years after the marriage.

Ursula and her son were the last to be buried in the funeral chapel of the Doberan Minster .

progeny

Ursula had the following children from their marriage:

⚭ 1528 Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1497–1546)
  • Magnus III. (1509–1550), Duke of Mecklenburg, Bishop of Schwerin
⚭ 1543 Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (1524–1586)

literature

  • Georg Friedrich Stieber: The life of Hertzog Magni zu Mecklenburg, first Protestant bishop of Schwerin , 1716, p. 6
  • Johann Samuelansch : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , J. f. Gleditsch, 1842, p. 420 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lexikus.de/Doberan-(seit-1921-Bad-Doberan)/Blaetter-zur-Geschichte-der-Kirche-zu-Doberan-Die-Kirche
personal data
SURNAME Ursula of Brandenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Mecklenburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1488
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1510
Place of death Guestrow