sentences:  When Count Gerlach V unexpectedly died in 1259 leaving a young wife, who soon thereafter gave birth to a daughter, Agnes, the Counts of Veldenz who had descended from the Emichones died out in the male line, leading the count's surviving kin to covet this now apparently "lordless" holding.Above all, it was Waldgrave Emicho, who as a descendant of the old Veldenz comital family, sought to make good his claims to the "Oberamt" of Lichtenberg, and he would likely have succeeded, likely even resorting to violence, in bringing it into his ownership, had Count Heinrich of Zweibrücken, Agnes's grandfather and guardian, not known how to defend his young granddaughter's hereditary claims.He hurriedly had several wooden castles built on mountains and in dales.