sentences:  The "Schultheißen" of the "Amt" of Konken, too, lived at the "Schloss".Stephan, meanwhile, founded a new County Palatine, merging his own hereditary lands on the Rhine's left bank with his wife's inheritance (she inherited the county, but as a woman, she could not inherit the comital title) and also the old County of Zweibrücken (a pledge on which he had to redeem) into one territory.It was known at first as the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, but in the fullness of time, it came to be seen as a duchy.