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DEUTZ

RUTH BAS ELAZAR SAUL Midwife, 23, only child of Elazar ben Saul

MIRIAM Ruth’s assistant, 15

ELAZAR BEN SAUL Ruth’s father, chief rabbi of the Jewish quarter of Deutz

SARA BEN SAUL née NAVARRO Ruth’s deceased mother

ROSA Ruth’s old Spanish nursemaid

TUVIA HOROWITZ Elazar’s assistant, Polish, 21, follower of the self-proclaimed Messiah, Shabbetai Zevi

COLOGNE

DETLEF VON TENNEN Canon to the cathedral, 33, cousin to Archbishop Maximilian Heinrich, a Wittelsbach aristocrat

GROOT Priest, Detlef’s clerk

CARLOS VICENTE SOLITARIO Spanish Dominican, inquisitor under the Inquisitor-General Pascual de Aragon

JUAN Carlos’s secretary

ARCHBISHOP MAXIMILIAN HEINRICH (b 1621) Archbishop of Cologne and Bonn, a Wittelsbach prince of the house of Bavaria

WILHELM EGON VON FÜRSTENBERG Minister to the cathedral, spy for the French (Arrested by Leopold I in 1674)

BIRGIT TER LAHN VON LENNEP Detlef’s mistress, wife to the merchant Ter Lahn von Lennep

PETER TER LAHN VON LENNEP Birgits husband, cloth importer, powerful town councillor

DAS GRÜUNTAL (Green Valley)

COUNT GERHARD VON TENNEN Detlef’s elder brother who has inherited the family estate