A brief history of the commune :
The date of the village’s foundation is unknown but it would appear that it existed during Roman times.
All that’s left is the name Sadillac with its ‘ac’ suffix from the Latin ‘acum’.
In 1876 the commune had a population of 236 composed mainly of farmers but also several coopers and weavers.
In the church to the left of the apse is the tomb of Master Jean Vassanges, sub-deacon
of Sarlat Cathedral, prior and Seigneur of Sadillac who died at the priory, aged 17, on 25 July 1744 and was buried in the church on the same day.

The parish graveyard would appear to be extremely old. Behind the village, below the path known as the ‘Ronde’, quite a number of graves have been uncovered; this would have been the Protestant graveyard.
The priory, which it is believed was affiliated to Cadouin Monastery, dates from the 15th century but was altered and largely rebuilt in the 16th and 18th centuries. In 1792 it was sold off as national property and its new owner turned it from a three to two-storied building, lowering the south-facing tower by about 6m and exchanging the spire for a dovecote.
 

The Château

The earliest mention of town walls dates from the beginning of the 15th century and probably refers to walls built during the Hundred Years War in the second half of the 14th century.
It is claimed that Charles IV passed through Sadillac and Henry IV stayed there.
Until the 18th century Sadillac had the statute of township.


Sadillac, situated 17km from Bergerac and 13km from Eymet, is a rural commune with a surface area of 563 ha and a population of 92.