sentences:  To be borne in mind here is that at first, the House of Leyen (the lords) usually deferred to any decisions on matters of religion made by the County Palatine of Zweibrücken (the overlords).However, when Duke Johannes I decreed in 1588 that all his subjects had to convert to the Calvinist Reformed faith, the House of Leyen opposed the new faith's introduction into the domains over which they held sway.Nevertheless, even the Lutherans in the Leyen domains were administered from Zweibrücken.