sentences:  The family Hoffmann at the Zweibrücker Hof, though highly regarded, nevertheless fell into disrepute for theft on the night of the Duke's death.After the Countess Hoffmann, who had wed her husband even before his divorce from his first wife, died, the patrilineal fief passed back to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.Since Duke Gustav Samuel Leopold died childless, the Duchy's leadership passed upon his death in 1731 to Count Palatine Christian III of the sideline of Palatinate-Birkenfeld.