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Excerpt from The Life and Times of William the Third, King of England, and Stadtholder of Holland, Vol. 1 of 2
Otho, Count of Nassau, who lived about seven hundred years ago, had two wives the first brought him in marriage the country of Guelderland, the second the province of Zutphen, which remained for above three centuries in the possession of his house. About the expiration of that period, another Count Otho married the Countess of Vianden, the heiress of considerable territories in the Low Countries.
His grandson Engelbert, the first of that name, Count of Nassau, espoused the heiress of Locke and Breda, in 14404, and was grandfather to Engel bert II. Of Nassau, a prince equally celebrated in war and in politics: he won the battle of Guine gate, suppressed the rebellion at Bruges, and was governor-general of the Low Countries for the Emperor Maximilian I. He died without issue, leaving to his brother John of Nassau the inherit ance of all his possessions.
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