Bader von Ginsburg (Merveilles des Morte)

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Bader von Ginsburg was a competitor in the King of Switzerland from Judenstadt. One of the only Jewish competitors, Bader was frequently sabotaged by his fellow Protestant, Catholic and Muslim competitors alike, as none of them wished to see a Jew win the contest and become King. Despite these obstacles, Bader met with some success. But his life was often fraught with tragedy. His seven sons were all killed during the Forty Years' War, and he was at one point captured by Aloisyus von Lenzburg. But his resourceful spirit shone through. He managed to befriend Aloisyus, who eventually released him, and Bader later allegedly poisoned his own wife and remarried to a fertile young woman who gave birth to seven more sons to replace those ones he had lost. Bader would retire from the contest, and little is known about his life until 1637, when he somehow angered the Meisids while on holiday in Finland, and was reportedly killed by them in a bizarre ritual involving a sheep.