sentences:  The villages in this court region appeared in a 1363 document dealing with the pledging of these lands to Sponheim-Starkenburg, with Kirrweiler named among them.Kirrweiler cropped up once again in a 1443 document, according to which the "poor people of Grumbach" were transferred to Count Friedrich III of Veldenz and his son-in-law Stephan, who the very next year, on his father-in-law's death, founded the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.Both were to be "lord protectors" of the district.