 In 1319, it was decided in a legal adjudication that Waldgrave Friedrich von der Kyrburg had claims in the villages around Grumbach, and thus in the two Jeckenbachs, but only a share in the "Blutbann" (blood court district) and the High Court on the Heath, and no further rightful claims.The Waldgraves pledged the two villages in 1363 to the Counts of Sponheim-Starkenburg, but sometime later bought them back.That latter deed shows that Rhinegrave Friedrich of Dhaun had in 1443 transferred “the poor people of Grumbach” (and hence all the surrounding villages) for protection to Count Friedrich III of Veldenz and his successor (for Count Friedrich died the very next year along with his noble house), Count Palatine Stephan of Zweibrücken.