Balthazar Abrabanel

A Sephardic Jew and a Marrano, Balthazar is a philosopher and physician. He was expelled by the Jews in Amsterdam after being accused of heresy. He and his daughter Rebecca were on their way to Badenburg where his brother lives when they met the uptimers at the farmhouse after the Ring of Fire. At the time he was having a heart attack and they were being pursued by Tilly's men. Chapter 4