From that time the castle was home to several lines of counts, including the counts of Scharzfeld who were named after the castle.

From another branch of the dynasty descended several more lines of counts and viscounts in France.

The original Angevins, the first line of hereditary counts of Anjou.

Gardelegen was founded in the 10th century (first named 1196), and was for a long time the seat of a line of counts.

The counts of Zutphen acquired a lot of power, until the line of counts became extinct in the twelfth century.

Pandenulf later became the first of a line of counts of Caserta.

The first line of counts of Kyburg were influential in local politics during the 1020s but the male line died out in 1078.

It was held by an independent line of counts until 1226.

Here he founded the line of counts of Limburg-Styrum-Styrum, extinct in 1809.

Bordeaux was not under his control, but that of a separate line of Carolingian-appointed counts.