In 1419 King Sigismund gave Devín to his palatine — the highest royal officer in the kingdom after the king himself — Mikuláš Garai. The Garai family enlarged and rebuilt the castle in the 1430s in the late Gothic style, and a great deal of what you climb through today is their work. These were precisely the decades when Hussite armies from Bohemia were riding deep into Hungary on their long raids. No record says they ever attacked Devín itself — but a frontier that had become dangerous is exactly why a great lord thought this rock worth spending money on.V roku 1419 daroval kráľ Žigmund Luxemburský Devín svojmu palatínovi — najvyššiemu kráľovskému úradníkovi hneď po panovníkovi — Mikulášovi Garaiovi. Garaiovci hrad v tridsiatych rokoch 15. storočia rozšírili a prestavali v neskorogotickom slohu a veľká časť múrov, ktorými dnes stúpate hore, je ich dielom. Boli to práve desaťročia, keď husitské vojská z Čiech podnikali do Uhorska svoje ďaleké výpravy. O útoku priamo na Devín nevieme nič — ale nebezpečné pohraničie je presne dôvod, prečo veľmožovi stálo za to dávať do tejto skaly peniaze.
