Teck

Teck, an ancient principality named from a castle on 'the Teck,' a limestone peak in the Swabian Alb, 20 miles SE. of Stuttgart. Held by various families from the 11th century on, it passed in 1498 to the Dukes of Württemberg. In 1863 the king of Württemberg conferred the principality on Duke Albert of Württemberg's son (born 1837), who in 1866 married the Princess Mary of Cambridge. Their daughter, Princess May, was married to the Duke of York, eldest surviving son of the Prince of Wales, 6th July 1893.