Jean-Baptiste de Durfort de Duras
# Jean-Baptiste de Durfort de Duras

Jean-Baptiste de Durfort, 3rd Duke of Duras (28 January 1684 - Paris, 8 July 1770) was a French nobleman as the 3rd Duke of Duras and was created a Marshal of France while also having the additional rank of a Peer of France.

## Biography

Jean-Baptiste de Durfort is the second son of Jacques Henri de Durfort de Duras, Duke of 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 of 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 War of the Spanish Succession. 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 Order of the Holy Spirit. In 1733 he passed his titles on to his son Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort.

During the War of the Polish Succession, he took part in the Siege of Kehl (1733) and the Siege of Philippsburg (1734). In 1741 he was appointed Marshal of France. 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 (died 1721)
   * in 1727, Louis-Marie-Augustin d'Aumont (1709–1782), 5th Duke of Aumont.
* Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort (1715-1789), 4th Duke of Duras.

## Sources

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