Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges

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Guy Aldonce de Durfort, duke de Lorges, marshal of France, (August 22, 1630 – October 22, 1702).

Jacques Henri was the fourth son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort (1605-1665), marquis of Duras, count of Rozan and of Lorges, maréchal de camp, and Elisabeth de La Tour d'Auvergne, sister of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, better known as Turenne.

His brother, Jacques Henri de Durfort de Duras, was also a Marshal of France. It is possible that the fame of their uncle played a major part in the military career of Jacques-Henri and Guy Aldonce.

In the War of the Grand Alliance he commanded the French army in Germany from 1690 to 1695. On September 27, 1692, he defeated 4,000 imperial cavalry under the command of Duke Frederick Charles of Württemberg-Winnental; the following year in 1693, and took the city of Heidelberg.

His daughter married Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. Another daughter, Geneviève, married Antoine Nompar de Caumont, duke of Lauzun.