The village fell to the Christians in the third decade of the thirteenth century, being delivered by Fernando III to the Knights Templar in 1238.
Unable to identify remains of the Muslim era, so that the oldest preserved corresponds to the Templar stronghold, and above all, to the owners that took place in the manor from the early fourteenth century when the Order became extinct the Temple, especially during the possession of Don Alfonso Fernández Coronel, Lord of Aguilar, who held the manor and castle on Burguillos mid-fourteenth century, after the Templars. By the year 1374 the owners were Vargas, and from the late fourteenth century until well into the sixteenth century Zúńiga, Dukes of Béjar.
The most important parts of what remains in the castle today corresponds to the fourteenth century, to which some additions were added in the fifteenth century, when they were lords of the Zúńiga.