House Teck

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Coat of arms of the Duke of Teck

The ducal family von Teck , later Cambridge , was a branch line of the House of Württemberg , which married into the British royal dynasty of the Hanoverians and later provided a British queen with Queen Mary .

history

Duchess Mary Adelaide von Teck, b. Princess of Cambridge (from the British Royal House of Hanover), mother of Queen Mary

The line goes back to Franz von Hohenstein , unequal son of Prince Alexander von Württemberg and his morganatic wife Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde . Franz was made Prince of Teck in 1863 and Duke in 1871 ; a title that had been in the possession of the House of Württemberg since the late Middle Ages.

By marrying the British Princess Mary Adelaide , daughter of Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge and granddaughter of King George III. , Franz managed to rise to the high nobility despite his unsuitable background.

The children of the duke couple were Victoria Mary , who later became Queen as the wife of George V , and their younger brothers Adolphus , after the death of his father in 1900 Duke of Teck, Francis and Alexander .

During the First World War , family members sided with Great Britain. After the British royal family had given up their German titles and changed their name to Windsor in 1917 , the Teck were also obliged to follow suit: Teck became Cambridge . Adolphus was also given the peer title of Marquess of Cambridge , and his brother Alexander became Earl of Athlone . The discarded German title Herzog von Teck was finally abolished in 1919 by the Weimar Republic.

In 1981 the last male family member died with the second Marquess of Cambridge ; the family therefore died out in 1999 with his daughter Mary in the lineage .

Tribe list

Queen Mary of Great Britain, b. Princess of Teck (1867-1953)
  1. Franz, Duke of Teck, b. Count von Hohenstein (1837–1900) ∞ Mary Adelaide von Cambridge (1833–1897)
    1. Victoria Mary von Teck (1867–1953) ∞ King George V - descendants
    2. Adolphus, Duke of Teck, later Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868–1927) ∞ Margaret Grosvenor , daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster
      1. George von Teck, later George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge (1895–1981) ∞ Dorothy Westenra Hastings, granddaughter of the 13th Earl of Huntingdon
        1. Mary Cambridge (1924–1999) ∞ Peter Whitley, son of Sir Norman Whitley - offspring
      2. Victoria Constance Mary von Teck, later Cambridge (1897–1987) ∞ Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
      3. Helena Frances Augusta von Teck, later Cambridge (1899–1969) ∞ Colonel John Evelyn Gibbs
      4. Frederick Charles Edward von Teck, later Cambridge (1907–1940, fallen)
    3. Francis (Franz) von Teck (1870–1910) - illegitimate descendants?
    4. Alexander von Teck, later Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957) ∞ Alice von Albany , daughter of Leopold, 1st Duke of Albany
      1. May von Teck, later Cambridge (1906–1994) ∞ Sir Henry Abel Smith - descendants
      2. Rupert von Teck, later Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon (1907–1928)
      3. Maurice von Teck (* / † 1910)

literature

  • Sönke Lorenz (Ed.): The House of Württemberg. A biographical lexicon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997

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