 The succession arrangement was challenged by the Raugraves, however, they had to accept a 1456 judgement by the Luxembourg councillor Antoine I de Croÿ.The "Salm-Reifferscheid" line was later divided into the branches of "Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg/Krautheim","Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz" and "Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck" (extinct in 1888).The Counts of Upper Salm resided at Château de Salm in Alsace, where they had to compete with the neighbouring Prince-Bishops of Strasbourg and the Dukes of Lorraine.