1657–1702 Imrich Thököly, and the end of the feudImrich Tököli a koniec sporu

Imrich Thököly was born in this castle on 25 September 1657. His father died in December 1670 while imperial troops besieged the family's castle at Orava; the boy got away east and came back as leader of the kuruc uprising against Habsburg rule. In 1682 the Ottoman sultan recognised him as ruler of Upper Hungary — and when the Ottoman army was broken before Vienna in 1683, his rule collapsed with it. He was excluded from the amnesty of the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 and died in Ottoman exile in 1705; his family's estates were confiscated, and that is precisely how the town of Kežmarok was finally able to buy the castle in 1702, ending an argument two hundred years old.Imrich Tököli sa na tomto hrade narodil 25. septembra 1657. Otec mu zomrel v decembri 1670, keď cisárske vojsko obliehalo rodinný Oravský hrad; chlapec unikol na východ a vrátil sa ako vodca kuruckého povstania proti Habsburgovcom. V roku 1682 ho osmanský sultán uznal za vládcu horného Uhorska — a keď sa turecké vojsko v roku 1683 zlomilo pred Viedňou, padla s ním aj jeho moc. Z amnestie Karlovického mieru roku 1699 ho vylúčili a v roku 1705 zomrel v osmanskom vyhnanstve; rodine skonfiškovali majetky, a práve preto si mesto Kežmarok mohlo v roku 1702 hrad konečne kúpiť a ukončiť dvestoročnú hádku.