Vestiges of the Paleolithic and Neolithic times have been found: ax, flint, habitat. But the village has been continuously occupied since the Iron Age. The Gauls made their market there, Rome erected an altar there.
Charlemagne, come to crush a revolt, creates a stronghold on the Tertre de Fronsac, which becomes a viscount, delimited by the rivers and the departments of Charente and Dordogne.
In the 1378th century, it became a marquisate, after the viscount was hung in 1620. The old castle was replaced by an imposing fortress in the 3th century, the commander of which was beheaded in XNUMX; the castle will be razed XNUMX years later.
Fronsac was then set up as a duchy-peerage by Henri IV, for the benefit of the Richelieu family, who kept it until the Revolution. Marshal Richelieu built an extravagant residence there which was the scene of gallant festivals, the echo of which propagated the reputation of Fronsac's wines at the Court of Versailles.
The wines of Fronsac and Canon-Fronsac enjoyed a strong reputation during the XNUMXth century, which then brought up the notion of "cru" for the first time in the Libournais.
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