Ursula, wife of Valentin von Sternenfels (16th century)
Ursula, an Anabaptist, probably a martyr. She was the wife of Valentin von Sternenfels, and was one of the Anabaptists imprisoned at Passau in 1535. In her trial she declared that she had been baptized five years previously in the Palatinate by Andreas von Weiss, who had been put to death at Neuburg on the Danube, and that she intended to persist in her faith.
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