Located in the canton of Bourg en Gironde, near the citadel of Bourg and Blaye, Lansac Bourg is a commune and Guyenne with an area of 600 ha. Its population was 639 inhabitants in 1900, and today 641 people are known as Lansac.
Lansac has a great story by the Lords of Lansac which derives its common shield. The common Lanzac is mentioned in a charter in 696, in the form of?? Lentiacus?? which should also Lansa. Lentiacus drift or gentile Lentius Lancius. In the 14th century, it is called Sanctus Petrus Lansaco, with the Patron Saint of Saint-Pierre.
Chellean flint and stone axes were found at Cante Rane. The priory of Notre-Dame de Bellegarde said chapel was built in 1122 and annexed the Priory in the 18th century the present church was built in a transition style, and beautiful Romanesque arches of the 12th century, with a steeple nine of the late 19th century.
In 1331, under a royal license?? English?? Lords of the Lansac built a large and beautiful castle, called Castelot. This castle had a quadrangle flanked by the four corners of turns round and located on a small hill west of the Grand-Puy, 30 m high summit of the town. He remained in that family until the 18th century. In 1451, William of Lansac it signed the document of surrender to the Count of Bordeaux Dunois but was best known Mayor of Bordeaux from 1567 to 1571, at the time of Montaigne.
By the mid 18th century, the daughter of the last Lansac brought a dowry to the Vicomte Charles de Broglie Castelot and then took the name of Château Tour de Broglie, he then belonged to Mr. Mons, but in 1792 he n That was in ruins when, before it was sold as a National Asset for 36,850 pounds. Today, there remain only two round towers of 7 to 8 m high, on top of a hill, and a vaulted room and communicate with subterranean bass. A popular tradition says that these tunnels contain two barrels, one full of gold and one silver. It is still common in several other homes including Castle Lamothe, noble houses Cosson and Taste and two beautiful windmills on the hills.
