Ursula of Munsterberg

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Ursula of Munsterberg (German: Ursula von Münsterberg; Czech: Uršula z Minstrberka, Voršila Minstrberská, kněžna a Kladská hraběnka; c. 1491/95 or 1499,[1] presumably in Teschen \- after 2 February 1534, presumably in Stift Gernrode or Liegnitz) was a German nun and writer, known for her role during the reformation.

## Life[edit]

She was a daughter of Victor, Duke of Münsterberg, and a granddaughter of George of Poděbrady, king of Bohemia. She came from the Crownlands of the Bohemian Kingdom, which is now the Czech Republic.

She became a nun in the Order of St Mary Magdalene. She famously left the convent during the reformation. She became a known Protestant writer.

## References[edit]

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1. ^ Cf. Siegismund Justus Ehrhardt: Abhandlung vom verderbten Religions-Zustand in Schlesien. Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1778, S. 197 (Google-Books); Similar to Roman von Procházka: Genealogisches Handbuch erloschener böhmischer Herrenstandsfamilien, Bd. I. Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, S. 201.

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16th century Protestant women in the Reformation

| Theological writers and scholars|

* Argula von Grumbach
* Anne Bacon
* Anne Locke
* Magdalena Heymair
* Elizabeth Melville
* Katharina Zell
* Catherine Vasa of Sweden
* Elisabeth of Brandenburg
* Emilia Lanier
* Elisabeth Cruciger
* Catherine Tishem

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Former nuns|

* Katharina von Bora
* Ursula of Munsterberg
* Charlotte of Bourbon
* Katharina von Zimmern
* Marie Dentière
* Cecily Bodenham
* Birgitta Botolfsdotter
* Elizabeth Zouche
* Anna II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Reformation martyrs|

* Anne Askew
* María de Bohórquez
* Alice Driver
* Joan Bocher
* Wendelmoet Claesdochter
* Anneke Esaiasdochter
* Aefgen Listincx
* Elizabeth Pepper
* Guernsey Martyrs
* Alice Benden
* Maria van Beckum
* Ursula van Beckum
* Marietje Jan de Gortersdochter
* Weyn Ockers
* Anneke Ogiers
* Elisabeth Wandscherer
* Joan Waste
* Katarzyna Weiglowa

Benefactors|

* Anne Boleyn
* Elisabeth of Hesse
* Anna Maria of the Palatinate
* Jeanne d'Albret
* Inger Ottesdotter Rømer
* Anna Radziwiłłówna Kiszczyna
* Renée of France
* Marguerite de Navarre
* Elisabeth of Brandenburg
* Barbara von Wertheim

Significant for another reason|

* Amalia of Cleves
* Anna Pehrsönernas moder
* Catharina Herman
* Catherine Tishem
* Idelette Calvin
* Rose Lok

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States

People|

* Deutsche Biographie

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