 Nonetheless, his marriage certificate, made out in Sankt Goar in 1656, states that he was "von Reuppelskirchen in der Pfalz bürttig" (born in "Reuppelskirchen" in the Palatinate).In 1670, there was a dispute with Electoral Mainz over feudal rights in the Rhenish-Hessian villages of Marienborn (today an outlying centre of Mainz), Mommenheim and Lörzweiler, which belonged to Reipoltskirchen.From 1681 to 1697, Reipoltskirchen belonged to the French Saar Province.