sentences:  He was obviously a nobleman who came from Homberg, but nothing else about him has come to light.The villages under the "Gericht auf der Höhe", among which was Homberg, were pledged first, in 1363, by Johann von Dhaun to Sponheim-Starkenburg and then in 1443 by Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Friedrich to the last of the Counts of Veldenz, namely Friedrich III, whose daughter Anna married King Ruprecht's son Count Palatine Stephan.The document whereby this arrangement was laid out referred to the village's inhabitants as the “poor people of Grumbach”.