sentences:  His daughter Anna wed Count Palatine Stephan, who now founded out of his own holdings and his wife's inheritance the County Palatine (Duchy) of Zweibrücken.Both villages now shared a history with the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken until that state was swept away along with all the other feudal states in the events of the French Revolution.In 1570 or 1571, the Zweibrücken official Johannes Schlemmer described the "Amt" and "Gericht" (court region) of Baumholder, also mentioning places that were right at the boundary, just outside the "Gericht".