sentences:  Clearly, however, it did not belong to those villages of the court that were pledged in 1443 to the County of Veldenz as the “poor people of Grumbach” and later redeemed by the Waldgraviate.It may have been the knightly order’s importance that kept Herren-Sulzbach out of this pledge.In the time of the Reformation, the Order of Saint John lost its influence in Herren-Sulzbach.