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
Spouse(s)	Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg
Noble family	House of Hohenzollern
Father	John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
Mother	Margarethe of Saxony
Born	(1488-10-17)17 October 1488 Berlin
Died	Güstrow
Buried	Doberan Minster

Ursula, Margravine of Brandenburg (17 October 1488 – 18 September 1510) 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 (1479–1552). They had three children:

1. Sophie 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

Family of Ursula of Brandenburg

16. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg               8. Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg                       17. Elisabeth of Meissen               4. Albrecht III, Elector of Brandenburg                             18. Frederick, Duke of Bavaria               9. Elisabeth of Bavaria                       19. Maddalena Visconti               2. John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg                                   20. Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden               10. Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden                       21. Anna von Oettingen               5. Margaret of Baden                             22. Charles II, Duke of Lorraine               11. Catherine de Lorraine                       23. Margaret of the Palatinate               1. Ursula of Brandenburg                                         24. Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia               12. Frederick I, Elector of Saxony                       25. Catherine of Henneberg               6. William III, Landgrave of Thuringia                             26. Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg               13. Catherine of Brunswick                       27. Sophie of Pomerania               3. Margaret of Thuringia                                   28. Albert IV, Duke of Austria               14. Albert II of Germany                       29. Joanna Sophia of Bavaria               7. Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg                             30. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor               15. Elizabeth of Luxembourg                       31. Barbara of Cilli