There are few contemporary documents on the history of Fejérkő Castle above Sámsonháza. According to the local tradition, the settlement II. Béla takes his name from the party-lording lord, Samson, who was Boris's claimant to the throne in 1132 (Kálmán Borisz was the son of a disturbed wife not recognized by the king. Maybe he built a castle on the outskirts of the village. The medieval name of the castle: Fejérkő is mined locally, in its new age it is very white, it can be traced back to a rare stone material in the surrounding volcanic mountains. The first mention of the castle dates from 1328, but only the name of the castle is mentioned. In 1403, Samson's House was owned by a certain Paul of Kachy. In 1406, King Sigismund annexed all the estates of János, the son of Pál Kókcs Kókai, who had passed away, including Samsonháza, Jobbágy, Szőrös and Kazar to the royal chapel. It was donated by Sigismund in 1409, at which time it was mentioned as a "castle site" belonging to the Samson House, ie as a destroyed castle. Archaeological excavations from 2004-2005 shed light on the history of the castle. The castle was built with a double protection belt, the inner castle wall is 2.5 meters wide and approx. It could have been 10 meters. It was protected from the south and east by a wall gorge, the outer gate opened on the north side, the access road from here bypassing the castle in the gorge led to the inner gate on the southwest side. In the middle of the 19th century, József Könyöki surveyed the ruins. There are many more walls in his drawing.
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