Ambrosius Franz, Count of Virmont

von Velen had died in 1733 the Archbishop and Prince-elector of Cologne Clemens August of Bavaria enfeoffed him with the Lordship of Bretzenheim.

This Lordship was an Imperial Estate providing him a seat and vote both in the Upper Rhenish Circle and in the Bench of Counts of Westphalia.

[6] During all his life Ambrosius Franz sought to regain the estates and possessions of his family in and around the town of Viermünden in Hesse.

1742 he applied to be enfeoffed with the Lordship of Viermünden at the court of landgrave Frederick I and after being repeatedly refused filed a lawsuit at the Aulic Council in Vienna in this matter.

The Lordhship of Bretzenheim was given by the Archbishop of Cologne to Ignaz Felix Freiherr von Roll zu Bernau.