 Wolfgang Philipp's wife Amalia remarried, and her new husband was Count Philipp I of Leiningen-Westerburg, who now became his stepson's regent.Philipp saw to it that the Reformation was introduced into all his own and his wife's holdings.As for the stepson, Johann III von Hohenfels-Reipoltskirchen, for whom Philipp had acted as regent, he took power upon his stepfather's death in 1597 and was the last in his noble line (Imperial ministerial family of the Lords of Bolanden), and died in Forbach in 1602 childless and unwed.