 In 1265, Gaston de Gontaut-Biron gave part of the Montlabour forest to the Count Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of the King Louis IX of France and Count of Toulouse.The new Bastide was built in the next four years and the King signed a contract in 1269 determining the legal statutes of the Villereal.In addition, Villereal was occupied by the English from 1279 to 1453.