Certainly inhabited since Gallo-Roman, it was not until the sixth century that "the Villa Suedas". The current town consists of two ancient parishes: Saix and Solomé met in 1819.
Sainte Radegonde is omnipresent she founded in the sixth century a chapel and a hospice where she tended the sick. A small chapel traces by contemporary key moments of his life frescoes marrying Clotaire I, his flight in Touraine, the miracle oats, creation of the Abbey of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers.