1685 Thököly takes it, the emperor takes it backTököli ho dobyje, cisár ho vezme späť

This is the point where a Slovak castle usually gets the story that the Turks destroyed it, and this is where that story is wrong. What was fought here was Hungarian against Habsburg. In 1685 the castle was taken by Imrich Thököly, the Protestant magnate leading a rising against the emperor, and the imperial army took it back the same year. Thököly's rebellion was backed by the Ottoman sultan, which is how the Turks get into the story at all — but the soldiers who actually fought over this rock were the emperor's and the rebels', and both of them were Hungarian subjects.Práve tu sa na slovenský hrad zvyčajne nalepí historka, že ho zničili Turci — a práve tu je nepravdivá. Bojoval sa tu boj Uhrov proti Habsburgovcom. V roku 1685 hrad dobyl Imrich Tököli, protestantský magnát, ktorý viedol povstanie proti cisárovi, a cisárske vojsko ho v tom istom roku dobylo späť. Tököliho povstanie podporoval osmanský sultán, a tak sa Turci do príbehu vôbec dostali — no vojaci, ktorí sa o toto bralo naozaj bili, boli cisárski aj povstaleckí, a jedni aj druhí boli poddanými uhorského kráľovstva.