In 1655, Pierre Laisné, Sieur du Chardonneaux acquired the land of Gondeville from the heirs of Samuel de Lanauve. He made great efforts to have Gondeville erected into a parish, which led to many disputes with Jean de Culant, lord of Saint-Même who had a pew in the church while the lord of Gondeville did not. had not. The construction of the church in Gondeville is due to his son-in-law, Isaac Laisné de Nanclas, whose name was given to the main street. Isaac Laisné de Nanclas had a brilliant military career; First becoming lieutenant-colonel of the Sainte-Maure regiment, he was appointed, in 1690, brigadier of the king's armies. He distinguished himself in numerous campaigns and died on October 30, 1704, after having obtained the title of lieutenant-general; he was buried in the church of Gondeville. His son, Philippe Laisné de Nanclas, having died childless, left his property to his nephew, Louis Saulnier, de Pierre Levée. The Saulnier family kept Gondeville until the end of the 18th century. At the beginning of the 18th century, Philippe Laisné de Nanclas built the new castle, all the buildings surrounded a long rectangular courtyard. The castle occupies the east side. On the west side, rose a circular leak. The wrought iron entrance gate to the courtyard is surmounted by a wrought iron impost, bearing an escutcheon with the arms of the Saulnier de la Pierre Levée and Laisné de Nanclas families, flanked by two lions and surmounted by a crown. . On the cadastre of 1849, the various buildings are arranged around a large rectangular courtyard, there remains only the house to the east, part of the outbuildings to the north, a well and the gate to the south. It should be noted that the stones which would have been used to build the current castle would come from the first fortified castle which would have been built in the 10th century on an island in the Charente to block the road to the Vikings who went up the Charente. It would have been destroyed during the Hundred Years War, but still existed in the 17th century. The two remaining wings became the town hall in 1947.
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