sentences:  The Lords of Leyen came from the country around the lower Moselle and already resided at their castle near Gondorf on the Moselle.For the most part, they served the archbishops of Trier, and Johann von der Leyen-Saffig was chosen as archbishop in 1556.Besides the House of Leyen, their kin, the Mauchenheims, were also enfeoffed in turn with shares of the monastery's holdings in the Münchweiler Tal.