 A "fundus Scrofanum" is mentioned for the first time in 780.A castle was built here probably in the 10th-11th century; in the 13th century it was a possession of the Prefetti di Vico, and later of the Savelli and the Orsini, who acquired it under the reign of Pope Gregory XI (1370–1377).Apart a short conquest by Cesare Borgia (1503–1516), they kept Sacrofano for nearly three centuries