It was called the town of the barons to mark the importance of the family of De Luzech, who preserved it from the eleventh century to the early seventeenth century when it then passed onto the house of Rastignac who occupied it up the Revolution.
The settlement was nicknamed the town of the barons in recognition of the De Luzech family's importance, preserving it from the 11th to the 17th centuries. It later came under the control of the Rastignac family until the French Revolution.