Heinrich V, Herzog von Mecklenburg Schwerin

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Predecessor: Balthasar and Magnus II of Mecklenburg Successor: Albert VII of Mecklenburg-Güstrow Henry V as Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
*Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Reign 1520–1552 Predecessor: Albert VII and Henry V as Dukes of Mecklenburg Successor: John Albert I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, nicknamed the Peaceful, (3 May 1479 – 6 February 1552) was the reigning Duke of Mecklenburg in the region Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of Duke Magnus II and Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin.

Henry was married three times.

He first married Ursula of Brandenburg (17 October 1488 – 18 September 1510), daughter of the elector John II Cicero of Brandenburg, on 12 December 1505. They had three children together:

Magnus (1509–1550), Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin, and from 1532 Bishop of Schwerin.
Sophie (1508–1541), who married Duke Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Ursula († 1586), last abbess of the Poor Clares monastery at Ribnitz. Henry's second marriage, on 12 June 1513, was to Helen of the Palatinate (1493 – 4 August 1524), daughter of Philipp, Elector Palatine. They also had three children together:

Philip (1514–1557), Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Margaret (d. 1586), who married Duke Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels. Catherine (d. 1586), who married Frederick III, Duke of Legnica. His third marriage (concluded on 14 May 1551) was to Ursula (died after 1565), daughter of Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and his wife Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg. This marriage was childless.