Desfours is the name of a

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family of

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descent that originated in the

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, but became prominent in

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during the 16th century.

History

Their parent house is the Athienville from Luneville and Chateau-Salins. The family became official on 30 May 1634 with the declaration of Field Marshal-Lieutenant Niclas Desfours to

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of Athienville. In the mid-17th Century, the counts of Desfours were owners of the estates

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and Morchenstern. Count Albrecht Maximilian limited the inheritance of these holding to them and their lineal descendants, in 1678. From this family the countly branch of Desfours-Walderode derived. Other properties of the family included

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(1797),

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(1628),

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(1634),

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and

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(1743).

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