sentences:  The opportunity to pass fiefs on and thereby become overlords themselves, and the right to bequeath the fief with which they had once been enfeoffed, led to a break between overlord and fiefholders, enhancing the counts' power and independence.This was also so for the comital family of the Emichones, who until 1110 were lords in the Nahegau.When the last Gau Count Emich died, the divisions began