COAT OF
ARMS
The authority for the coat of arms may be found in
Riestrup's Armorial General, Vol. 2, 1887.
The coat of arms here shown is that of a Marquis
d'Urfe, 1612, the helmet designating by its facing front the title of
marquis. The shield to the same is that granted over 500 years earlier at
antioch in the first crusade by the assembled Christian princes to the son
of the founder of the name and family in France.
It may therefore properly be designated as the
Durfee Coat of Arms, being that carried by the head of the family for over
seven centuries.
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