La Bastide-Clairence, like Bidache, belonged to the Duke of Gramont. A Jewish or New Christian community was established in 1600, and numbered 80 souls by 1630.
There is a Jewish cemetery in La Bastide-Clairence. It seems to have opened in 1659. Gérard Nahon recorded 62 inscriptions from the beit haim in his Inscriptions funéraires hébraïques et juives à Bidache, Labastide-Clairence (B. Pyr.) et Peyrehorade (Landes) [218]_, 1968. Names reported from the cemetery include: Dacosta, Henriquez Lopez Nunez, Depas and Alvares. The cemetery belongs to the Consistoire israélite de Bayonne.