Ursula of Brandenburg
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Ursula, Margravine von Brandenburg (17 October 1488 – 18 September 1510, Güstrow) was a German noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Johann Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg and Margarethe of Saxony.
At age 19, on 16 February 1507 she married Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1479-1552). They had three children:
- Sophie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1508-1541), married Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Magnus of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1509-1550) (predeceased his father)
- Ursula of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (30 August 1510 – 22 April 1586), abbess of Ribnitz
She died in 1510 at age 21, less than a month after the birth of her third child.
[edit] Genetics
As a matrilineal relative of Elisabeth of Luxembourg and ultimately of Nicholas II of Russia, she and all her female-line descendants are members of mitochondrial haplogroup T.
