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In his will, Otto IV bequeathed 100 gold guilders to the monastery in
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Most genealogical tables state his year of birth as 1440/41, but also state that his mother already died in 1438. The appendix of states that he was born in 1448, but this seems very unlikely, as it would imply he was born in a second marriage of his father, of there is not further evidence, and
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