1582 · 1626 · 1647 · 1678 Four attacks, and the county moves inŠtyri útoky a stolica sa sťahuje dnu

The town was attacked repeatedly and mostly held. A siege in 1582 failed; raids in 1626 and 1647 got through and did real damage; two attacks in 1678 were beaten off. Because the south of Hont county was no longer safe, the county administration itself moved to Krupina and stayed until the end of the seventeenth century — a small walled town on the frontier became the place where the county's records were kept and its assembly met. A few kilometres west, at Bzovík, a monastery founded in the 1120s had already been seized by Žigmund Balassa in 1530 and rebuilt as a bastioned fort; it stands there still, blunt and strange, in the middle of the fields.Mesto útočníci napádali znova a znova a väčšinou ho neudolali. Obliehanie roku 1582 stroskotalo; nájazdy rokov 1626 a 1647 sa cez hradby dostali a narobili skutočnú škodu; dva útoky roku 1678 mesto odrazilo. A pretože juh Hontianskej stolice už nebol bezpečný, presťahovala sa do Krupiny samotná stoličná správa a zostala tu do konca 17. storočia — z malého opevneného mestečka na hranici sa stalo miesto, kde sa uchovávali stoličné písomnosti a schádzal sa stoličný snem. Pár kilometrov na západ, v Bzovíku, zabral Žigmund Balaša už roku 1530 kláštor založený v 20. rokoch 12. storočia a prestaval ho na pevnosť s baštami; stojí tam dodnes, tvrdý a zvláštny, uprostred polí.