![]() ![]() Guy's mother was a daughter of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne and sister of the Marshal Turenne. The Durfort family held Duras since the 14th century. His father was marquis of Duras, comte de Rauzan and comte de Lorges, as well as maréchal de camp in the French army. Guy Aldonce was born on 22 August 1630, at the Château de Duras, the fourth son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort (1605-1665) and Elisabeth de La Tour d'Auvergne. ![]() He is often mentioned in Saint-Simon's Mémoires as he was the author's father-in-law. In the Nine Years' War he commanded the Rhine army and took the city and the castle of Heidelberg in 1693. He distinguished himself at the retreat from Sasbach and the ensuing Battle of Altenheim. Back on the Rhine, he fought at Entzheim in 1674, at Turckheim in January 1675, and at Sasbach in July 1675, where Turenne fell. Guy Aldonce de Durfort, duc de Lorges, Marshal of France, (1630–1702) fought in the Franco-Dutch War mostly on the Rhine under his uncle Marshal Turenne, but in 1673 he was seconded to the Siege of Maastricht. ![]()
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