| ![Show Contents]() Durfort History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Durfort familyThe surname Durfort was first found in Gascony (French: Gascogne), an area of southwest France bordering Spain, that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution, where this eminent family held a family seat since ancient times. Early History of the Durfort familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Durfort research. Another 496 words (35 lines of text) covering the years 1093, 1154, 1224, 1259, 1305, 1363, 1451, 1452, 1461, 1474, 1487, 1563, 1628, 1630, 1640, 1653, 1709, 1723, 1744, 1762 and 1781 are included under the topic Early Durfort History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Durfort Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Durfort, Durforte, Durfaurre, Deforte, Duforte, Desforte, Dufaute, Defaute, Durfort, Dufortes and many more. Early Notables of the Durfort family- Jean de Durfort, Lord of Duras, Blanquefort and Villandrau, Mayor of Bordeaux in 1487, followed Charles VIII in the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1474 and Louis XII to the Duchy of Milan, later...
- Louis Durfort or Duras Earl of Feversham (1640?-1709), was a general and the sixth son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort, marquis de Duras, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, duc...
Migration of the Durfort familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Fort settled in Maryland in 1685; Francis Fort settled in Virginia in 1736; Claude Fort settled in Louisiana in 1756; Lewis Emanuel Fort settled in Philadelphia in 1804.
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