Teck (medieval noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Dukes of Teck around 1340

The dukes of Teck were a side line of the Zähringer that existed from around 1187 to 1439 . After their extinction, the title of duke fell to the House of Württemberg in 1495 . In the 19th century the title was then again given to an unequal sideline of this house (the Teck family (later Cambridge) ) who married into the British royal family.

Dux Albertus de Tecke as a witness for Emperor Heinrich VI. ( Schwäbisch Gmünd 1193)

history

Adalbert , son of Konrad von Zähringen , inherited the Zähringian possessions around Teck Castle between Kirchheim and Owen . After the death of his brother Berthold IV , Adalbert called himself Herzog von Teck and thus became the progenitor of this Zähringen branch "without a duchy".

Some historians assume that Konrad II von Teck was chosen by the Austro-Swabian-Palatinate party on April 30, 1292 in Weinheim as a compromise candidate for the king's election after the death of Rudolf I. However, Konrad was murdered on the trip to Frankfurt am Main , where he hoped to be confirmed on May 2nd by the electoral princes gathered there . Konrad was buried as "Rex electus" (elected king) in Owen .

The ministerials of the dukes of Teck included u. a. The gentlemen von Späth, the Schwelher von Wielandstein, the Schilling, the gentlemen from Kirchheim, the gentlemen from Neidlingen, the gentlemen from Lichteneck, the gentlemen from Wernau , the gentlemen from Lenningen, the gentlemen from Sperberseck , the Schwenzlin von Hofen, the gentlemen von Bruggon, the lords of Tachenhausen, the Kyver vom Tiefenbach, the lords of Mansberg , the Finken vom Schloßberg and the Maier von Waseneck .

The domain of the Dukes of Teck formed a focus on the Alb eaves around Teck Castle, surrounded by a wreath of individual properties near Esslingen am Neckar , in the Remstal , on the Schurwald and on the Münsinger Alb. A second cluster of dangerous goods was in the Upper Neckar area, between the Black Forest and small Heuberg . Around these two separate property centers were further properties in the Neckar basin , in the Danube valley, in Hegau , in Aargau and on Lake Thun .

List of possessions: Gutenberg , Lenningen , Owen , Dettingen unter Teck , Kirchheim unter Teck , Bissingen an der Teck , Boll (until 1321), Dürnau , Gammelshausen (until 1321), Sehningen (until 1321), Lotenberg with Lotenberg Castle (until 1321 ), Heiningen (until 1321), Hedelfingen , Stetten im Remstal , Rommelshausen , Marbach am Neckar (until 1302), Lauffen am Neckar (until 1302), Zazenhausen , Zwiefalten , Ostdorf , Rosenfeld , Schiltach , Hornberg , Schramberg , Oberndorf am Neckar , Sulzbach , Lauterbach , Kirnbach , Sulgen and Göttelbach.

see also: List of local coats of arms with reference to the Teck rule

Lines

In the 13th century, the line split into Teck-Oberndorf (based in Oberndorf am Neckar ) and Teck-Owen . The Teck-Oberndorf line died out impoverished in 1363. The rule was sold by the heir Friedrich von Teck-Owen in 1374 to the Counts of Hohenberg . The Teck-Owen line acquired the rule of Mindelheim in 1365 , but had to sell the ancestral land around Teck Castle to Württemberg in 1386 . With Ludwig von Teck , Patriarch of Aquileja from 1412 until his death , the dukes of Teck died out in 1439.

In 1495, Eberhard I von Württemberg received the title of Duke of Teck when he was raised to the rank of duke by Emperor Maximilian . The title remained in the Württemberg ducal family in the following centuries.

In the 19th century, a new branch emerged : Franz von Hohenstein , the unequal son of Prince Alexander von Württemberg and his morganatic wife Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde , was made Prince in 1863 and Duke of Teck in 1871 . He married into the British aristocracy; his daughter Mary eventually became queen as the wife of George V. The family renamed itself to Cambridge during World War I , renounced the German title of Duke von Teck and finally died out in the male line in 1981. The title has not been used since 1917 and has been abolished under German law since 1919.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Dukes of Teck (1450–1480)

The coat of arms is awakened diagonally to the left in black and gold ("Tecksche Wecken "). On the helmet with black and gold covers a growing bracke awakened like the shield .

Personalities

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, pp. 352-353, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Rolf Götz: Ways and wrong ways of early historiography . Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5508-1
  • Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck - dukes without a duchy . Stadtarchiv, Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, ISBN 978-3-925589-49-2 (series of publications by the Stadtarchiv Kirchheim unter Teck; Volume 33)
  • Irene founder: Studies on the history of the Teck rule . Stuttgart, Müller & Gräff, 1963

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Zurich coat of arms roll
  2. ↑ WUB Volume II, No. 481, pp. 294-295 (1193) digitized and Regesta Imperii Abt. 4, Vol. 3.1, p. 96, No. 232 (1192) digitized
  3. ^ Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck - dukes without a duchy ; City archive, Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, p. 13f.
  4. ↑ Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck - dukes without a duchy . Stadtarchiv, Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, pp. 23–27.
  5. ↑ a b c Schüle, Albert: Heimatbuch der Gemeinde Dettingen unter Teck , ed. v. of the community of Dettingen unter Teck, 1981
  6. ↑ Source: Scheibler's Wappenbuch

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