Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges
Marshal of France
Died when: 72 years 61 days (866 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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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.
Back on the Rhine, he fought at Entzheim in 1674, at Turckheim in January 1675, and at Sasbach in July 1675, where Turenne fell.
He distinguished himself at the retreat from Sasbach and the ensuing Battle of Altenheim.In the Nine Years' War he commanded the Rhine army and took the city and the castle of Heidelberg in 1693.
He is often mentioned in Saint-Simon's Mémoires as he was the author's father-in-law.
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