Ursula of Brandenburg


Ursula, Margravine of Brandenburg was a German noblewoman.
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. They had three children:
  1. Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, married Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  2. Magnus III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  3. Ursula of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 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.