Jean-Baptiste de Durfort (28 January 1684 - Paris, 8 July 1770) was 3rd Duke of de Duras,

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and Pair de France.

Biography

Jean-Baptiste de Durfort is the second son of

Jacques Henri de Durfort de Duras Jacques Henri de Durfort, Duke of Duras (9 October 1625 – 12 October 1704) was Marshal of France. Life Jacques Henri was the oldest son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort (1605–1665), marquis of Duras, count of Rozan and of Lorges, maréchal de c ...

, duc de Duras, Marshal of France, and Marguerite-Felice de Levis-Ventadour.
With the death of his older brother Jacques-Henri II in September 1697, he became 3rd Duke of Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort, Comte de Rauzan, Baron de Pujols, de Landrouet et, de Cypressac, Seigneur de Chitain, d'Urbize, de Cambert etc. . His father resigned in 1689 and died in 1704. On 10 June 1702, he took part in the unsuccessful surprise attack on Nijmegen as part of the

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. On 30 March 1710, he was made Maréchal de camp and on 31 March, he was appointed Lieutenant-général des Armées du Roi. On 13 May 1731 he was accepted into the

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. In 1733 he passed his titles on to his son

Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort, duc de Duras (19 September 1715 – 6 September 1789, Versailles) was a French politician, diplomat, peer, marshal and Freemason (belonging to the ''l'Olympique de la Parfaite Estime'' lodgeGlachant Roger, Suffren e ...

. During the

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, he took part in the Siege of Kehl (1733) and the

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. In 1741 he was appointed

. In 1755 he became Governor of Franche-Comté. In December 1755, the Duchy of Duras was raised to a peerage.

Marriage and Children

He married on 6 January 1706 Marie Angélique Victoire de Bournonville (1686-1764), daughter of Alexandre-Albert-François-Barthelemy, Duke and Prince de Bournonville (1662-1705). They had : * Victoire Félicité de Durfort (1706-1753), married **in 1720, Henry James Fitzjames, son of

James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, 1st Duke of Liria and Jérica, 1st Duke of Fitz-James (21 August 1670 – 12 June 1734) was an Anglo-French military leader, illegitimate son of King James II of England by Arabella Churchill, sister o ...

(died 1721) **in 1727, Louis-Marie-Augustin d'Aumont (1709–1782), 5th Duke of Aumont. *

(1715-1789), 4th Duke of Duras.

Sources

*Père Anselme. Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. T. V. — P., 1730., p. 739 *Père Anselme, Potier de Courcy, P. Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. T. IX, partie 2. — P.: Firmin Didot Frères, 1879., p. 603 *Pinard F.-J.-G. Chronologie historique-militaire. T. III. — P.: Claud Herissant, 1761., pp. 316—320 *La Roque L. de, Catalogue historique des généraux français. — P.: 1902, pp. 27—29
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Durfort, Jean-Baptiste 1684 births 1770 deaths 3 Marshals of France Peers created by Louis XV 18th-century French military personnel