The Durfort of Duras were knights from Quercy in the XIth century and lords of Duras after a match with the descendant of Bertrand de Goth ( later pope Clement V )arrived at Margaux in the XIV th century where they had a stronghold built. In 1450, Thomas de Durfort became lord of Margaux.
Four centuries later, Viscount Robert Labat de Vivens, a friend of Montequieu and himself famous for his research works on the chockingwith mud and litter of the Garonne and the Gironde, inherited the estate of the lords of Duras to which he gave his name. Château Durfort-Vivens was born….The year was 1824.
