sentences:  In 1115 Adalbert, Count of Saarbrücken and Archbishop of Mainz, freed the abbey of all royal, episcopal and advocatial services and impositions.This seems however to have been with a view to removing obstacles to the easy advancement of Adalbert's own kindred within the abbey.By the beginning of the 13th century most of its territories and possessions had been transferred into the hands of his relatives, the Counts of Leiningen and Zweibrücken.