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 of 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. One can not help thinking that the fame of their uncle played a mayor part in the military carreer 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 beats an imperial army unit of 4,000 cavalry men under the command of Duke Frederick Charles of Württemberg-Winnental and takes the city of Heidelberg en 1693.
His daughter married Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon