- Ursula of Brandenburg
Ursula, Margravine von Brandenburg (
17 October 1488 –18 September 1510 ,Güstrow ) was a Germannoblewoman .She was the daughter of
Johann Cicero ,Elector of Brandenburg andMargarethe of Saxony .At age 19, on
16 February 1507 she married Duke Heinrich V ofMecklenburg-Schwerin (1479-1552). They had three children:
#Sophie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1508-1541), marriedErnest 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 ofRibnitz She died in 1510 at age 21, less than a month after the birth of her third child.
Genetics
As a
matrilineal relative of Elisabeth of Luxembourg and ultimately ofNicholas II of Russia , she and all her female-line descendants are members ofmitochondria lhaplogroup T.
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