Teck
an ancient German principality, named from a castle on "the Teck," a limestone peak in the Swabian Alb, 20 miles S. E. 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 Victoria Mary married July 6, 1893, Prince George, afterwards George V of England.