In 1300 the castle belonged to two burghers from Metz and Freistroff was subjected to the duke of Lorraine’s high justice.

In 1329 the castle passed into the hands of Garsilis of Fontoy. Freistroff being of old a fief pertaining to the dukedom, the duke of Lorraine gave it 1387 to John of Ellentz, a man born of a family of Trier’s Electorate.

In 1457 Freistroff belonged to Fulko of Ellentz who bequeathed it to Henry of Vasberg, his son-in-law.

In 1493 William, Henry’s eldest son, regained the rights of high justice on his fief as well as the castle itself.

In 1665 John-Edmund of Bassenheim, a counsellor to the palatine elector, took half of the castle in fief from the duke of Lorraine. He was succeeded in 1671 by John Simon, one of Baron of Koenigsberg’s officers, who in his turn lost half of the Freistroff seigniory because of debts. This half then fell to one of his creditors’ share and then to a number of people until it was occupied by a company of French fusiliers from 1678 to 1697. The other half of the seigniory was shared between Margaret of Varsberg’s descendants. A portion of that inheritance then fell to the Stromberg family’s share and another one to the Liebenstein family’s.

Frederic-Ernst of Eltz, lord of Château-Rouge, gradually acquired the Freistroff seigniory, beginning by seizing the Libenstein’share before taking hold of Stromberg’s after 1673 in unknown circumstances.

XVIIIth century :

Soon after 1697 he came into possession of the other half of Freistroff, the Vasbergs’ former share. As before in the XVth century, the seignory was once again reunited.

When he died in 1717, his possessions fell to his descendants’ share down to Marie-Therese, his granddaughter, who married François-Louis-Joseph of Schmittbourg or Schmidtburg in 1747. Tradition has it that marriage was an unhappy one because the baron of Schmittbourg used to live on such a grand scale. His wife, then a widow, frequently resided in Freistroff up to 1792, in the time of the Great Fear, when she fled to Heidelberg. Her estates in Freistroff and Château-Rouge were then confiscated to become national property. The castle was then sold to her man-servant and to John Cousin, the castle’s steward. Schideler, no doubt acting in collusion with the baroness of Schmittbourg, bought back the latter’s share. In 1802, that is in Napoleon’s time, the baroness was able to regain possession of her castle which Schideler, who had become her steward sold back to her on 13 January, 1802. On the other hand, her castle of Château-Rouge was not restored to her. Her satisfaction was a short-lived one as she died hardly six months after getting Freistroff back, on 15 July, 1802. Her son, the last baron of Schmittbourg inherited the castle and his daughter had his estates sold.