Gondeville is noted in 1252, during an exchange between Jean Rot, squire, lord of Châteauneuf and Sallomon de Gondeville, knight. The lords of Gondeville have been known since the 13th century. They had the right of high, medium and low justice. In compensation for work carried out on the Charente, they had obtained the right to collect a bushel of salt on each barge of salt going up the course of the river. They came under the lordship of Bouteville. But Gondeville was not a parish and depended on that of Saint-Même.
Towards the end of the 14th century, lived Foulques de Gondeville who was succeeded by his son Armand. Then came Jean Bouterouhe, whose daughter Agnès, married Guillaume de Cruc. The latter thus became lord of Gondeville and left this lordship to his heirs. His granddaughter, Magdeleine de Cruc, ceded Gondeville to Jean de La Rochebeaucourt, younger son of the house of Saint-Même and received in exchange the land of Courpignac, in Saintonge (May 10, 1590). In the early years of the 17th century, the heirs of Jean de La Rochebeaucourt sold the land of Gondeville to Samuel de Lanauve, adviser to Parliament, which was acquired in 1655 by Pierre Laisné, sieur du Chardonneaux.
In 1664, he had a lawsuit with Isaac de Culant, lord of Saint Even, about the enclave of Gondreville, which he succeeded in having erected into a parish. In May 1683, he reiterated his request to King Louis XIV for a church to be built in the town. It was finally built by his son-in-law Mr de Nanclas in 1700 and thanks to a grant of 1000 pounds granted by the King.
It was demolished by the storm of February 20, 1879 between 1879 and 1880 under the direction of architect Augustin Landry. New restorations took place at the beginning of the 20th century, in particular according to the plans of the architect Luis Martin.
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