Jean-Baptiste de Durfort

Jean-Baptiste de Durfort (born January 28, 1684 - † July 8, 1770 in Paris ) was Duc de Duras, Marshal of France and Pair de France .

Life

Jean-Baptiste de Durfort is the son of Jacques-Henri de Durfort, 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 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 June 10, 1702 he took part in the unsuccessful surprise attack on Nijmegen as part of the War of the Spanish Succession . On March 30, 1710 he was made Maréchal de camp and on March 31, 1720 he was appointed Lieutenant-général des Armées du Roi. On May 13, 1731 he was accepted into the Order of the Holy Spirit . In 1733 he passed his title on to his son Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort . During the War of the Polish Succession , he took part in the siege of Kehl Fortress (October 19-29, 1733) and the Siege of Philippsburg (1734) . In 1741 he was appointed Marshal of France . In 1755 he was appointed governor of Franche-Comté . In December 1755, the Duchy of Duras was raised to a peerage in his favor , registration took place on February 12, 1757.

marriage and family

He married Marie Angélique Victoire de Bournonville (January 23, 1686 - September 29, 1764) on January 6, 1706 , daughter of Alexandre-Albert-François-Barthelemy , Duc et Prince de Bournonville, Comte de Henin, and Charlotte-Victoire d'Albert de Luynes. Your children are:

• Victoire Félicité de Durfort (* 1706; † October 17, 1753); ∞ (1) February 10, 1720 Henry James Fitzjames, Duc de Fitzjames († October 13, 1721), Mestre de camp d'infanterie, Gouverneur du Haut et Bas Limousin, son of James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick , 1. Duque de Fitzjames, Pair de France, Marshal of France, and Anne Bulkeley; ∞ (2) April 19, 1727 Louis Marie Victor Augustin d'Aumont († April 13, 1782), Duc d'Aumont, Baron de Rochebaron, Lieutenant-Géneral, Pair de France, Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roi, son of Louis Marie d'Aumont, Duc d'Aumont, Pair de France, and Caterine de Guiscard
• Geneviève de Durfort (* 1712; † 1715, 3 years old)
• Louis Henri de Durfort (October 3, 1709 - October 25, 1722)
• Marie-Madeleine de Durfort (* 1713 - 13 November 1737); ∞ October 20, 1727 Emmanuel Dieudonné, Marquis de Hautefort, Comte de Surville († January 30, 1777), Mestre de camp du régiment de Condé infanterie, son of Louis-Charles de Hautefort, Marquis de Surville, Lieutenant-général des Armées du Roi, and Anne-Louis de Crevant-d'Humiéres
• Henri Louis Alexandre de Durfort (born October 18, 1714)
• Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort (born September 19, 1715; † September 6, 1789 in Versailles ), 1733 4th Duc de Duras; ∞ (1) May 1, 1733 Charlotte Antoinette de La Porte-Mazarin (* March 24, 1718 - September 6, 1735), the only daughter and presumptive heiress of Guy-Jules-Paul de La Porte , Duc de la Meilleraye et de Mazarin ( La Porte House ), and Louise Françoise de Rohan-Soubise; she died before her father; ∞ (2) June 1736 Louise-Françoise de Coëtquen († January 2, 1802), heir daughter of Marie Auguste, Marquis de Coëtquen, and NN de Châteaubriand.

literature

• Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale… , continuée par M. du Fourny, 3rd edition, Volume 5, 1730, p. 739 (for dates up to 1727)
• Oraison funèbre de ... Jean-Baptiste de Durfort, duc de Duras, pair et maréchal de France, governor de Franche-Comté et des ville et citadelle de Besançon , mort à Paris le 8 juillet 1770, prononcée dans l'Église des Cordeliers de Besançon le 28 août suivant par M. [François Xavier] Talbert, chanoine .... , 46 pages, Besançon, Fantet.
• Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (eds.), Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie… , 1878 ( wikisource )
• Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume 10, 1986 Plate 115