The wars that followed were not fought against the Turks but against the Habsburg emperor. Hungarian noblemen and their soldiers — the kuruci, the anti-Habsburg insurgents — fought imperial armies up and down this country for the best part of fifty years, and towns changed hands with whoever happened to be passing. Prievidza burned again in 1673, and part of its town archive burned with it, which is one reason we know less about its Middle Ages than we should. Only seven years earlier the Piarist teaching order had arrived in the town, so the school and the fire belong to the same generation.Vojny, ktoré prišli potom, sa neviedli proti Turkom, ale proti habsburskému cisárovi. Uhorskí šľachtici a ich vojaci — kuruci, protihabsburskí povstalci — bojovali s cisárskymi armádami po celej krajine takmer päťdesiat rokov a mestá menili pánov podľa toho, kto práve prešiel. Prievidza v roku 1673 znova zhorela a s ňou aj časť mestského archívu — aj preto o jej stredoveku vieme menej, než by sme mohli. Len sedem rokov predtým prišli do mesta piaristi, takže škola aj požiar patria tej istej generácii.
