Jan van Geldrop participated in the 1371 Battle of Baesweiler on the Brabant side.

His daughter Jutta married Aert Daniels van Goor, and he became Philip's heir.

By an act of the same date of 29 June 1462, Philip van Horne received the Lordship of Geldrop on loan from the Teutonic Order.

Claes van der Dussen, commander of Alden Biesen acted on behalf of the order.

In 1585 Alexander Farnese, governor of the Netherlands gifted the lordship of Geldrop to Maria van Horne sister of Willem.

George van Horne, a brother of William, got the lordship of Heeze, Leende en Zesgehuchten.

Maria's half brother Amand I van Horne managed both lordships for their owners.

In 1616 Amandus renovated the outer bailey, creating the core of the current castle.

The central part is the high house with stepped gables marked with anchor plates depicting the year 1616.

During the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) Amandus I van Horne fought on the royalist side.

During these years Peter Paul Rubens visited Geldrop Castle several times.

Rubens was a good friend of Ophovius and made several portraits of the fugitive bishop.

[3] He was succeeded as lord of Geldrop by his brother Martin Ignatius van Horne (1619-1691).

He was succeeded by Jan Robert Joseph O'Donnoghue, who decided to sell the lordship in 1768.

[2] The castle was inherited by Catharina Petronella Nobel, wife of Paulus Eckringa (?- 1791).

Their daughter Wilhelmina Johanna Eckringa van Sprangh became the next and final lady of Geldrop, but she never lived on the castle.

Hubertus Paulus Hoevenaar created the English landscape garden at the castle.

The later ground plan could allow for an earlier motte-and-bailey castle, but archaeological excavations did not find remains from before the 14th century,[6] making a motte very unlikely.

The ceiling of each floor was supported by 13 beams of 33 Helmond feet (28.7 cm) long, or 9.47 m.[7] In 1996 a group of amateur archaeologists from the local history society performed a preliminary investigation, and investigated the surrounding grounds by drilling holes.

The 19th century renovation by Hubertus Paulus Hoevenaar probably saved the castle, but also did a lot damage.

He demolished a tower-like annex on the south-eastern side of the 1616 core in order to create a terrace.

This beech died during a 2016 flooding of the Kleine Dommel, which kind of fits with the history of the castle.

The park and adjacent grounds are now home to the tawny owl, kingfisher, sparrowhawk, and multiple kinds of woodpeckers.