sentences:  She was married to Count Palatine Stephan, who took his wife's inheritance and combined it with his own holdings to form a new state, which in time came to be known as the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.Bedesbach shared this state's history until, like all other feudal states in the region, it was swept away under the tide of the French Revolution.Only a few villagers survived the Thirty Years' War, and the village itself had to be newly settled by newcomers.