Seemingly soon after 1100, they gained patronage over the monastery of Hornbach with large landholdings between Blies and the Palatinate Forest.

The initial allowance of the County of Zweibrücken, in order to name here some relevant constituents, consisted of fiefs, i.e. from the Empire half of Landeck castle with eleven villages around Bergzabern, from the bishopric of Metz rights over their serfs, the so-called "Stephan's people", from the bishopric of Verdun half of Liebenberg castle near Namborn, in patronages the important patronage over the monastery of Hornbach, other patronages over the nuns cloister Altenmünster in Mainz and over several holdings of the ecclesiastical foundations saint Alban in Mainz and of the Liebfrauen there, finally allods between Rhine and Mosel, amongst those Zweibrücken castle, Lemberg Castle built after 1198 by count Henry I, and shares of Marimont-lès-Bénestroff, Lindre-Haute and Sarreguemines.

[1] The system of primogeniture had not yet come into common use and the ongoing inheritance partitions in Southwestern Germany affected many territories leading to their decline.

In 1282, Henry II was succeeded by two of his sons, Eberhard I and Walram I, who ruled the county jointly.

The eastern part of the Zweibrücken lands, the Barony of Lemberg, fell to Eberhard I.