gave it as a fief to the Counts of Wertheim.

A list of territories gained by Fulda Abbey between 755 and 885 (Fuldaer Tradition) names "Lengesfurt" given by a "Count Egino". This is considered too vague to be the first written mention of the Triefenstein area, however, which is instead thought to be the Codex Eberhardi, issued by Louis the Pious in 839. It mentions the Via Publica, which crossed