In 1672, The territory of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly was given to a lieutenant of the Carignan regiment, Claude-Sébastien de Villieu, by the intendant
Jean Talon. Later, The territory was sold to Pierre-Noël Le Gardeur, sieur de Tilly. Under his ownership, in 1702, a parish was canonically erected and the territory took the name Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly. In 1759, the territory is the site of a battle during the
conquest of New France. The municipality was officially created in 1855. In 1909, it lost a small section of its territory for the creation of
Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d’Issoudun. Finally, in 1995, the status of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly was changed from a parish municipality to a regular municipality. ==References==