Augustus Heinzerling is a German Jesuit and close confidant of Jules Mazarin. Unlike many other Jesuits, Heinzerling's unkempt life-style is considered beneath a simple ordained priest. However, he has still proven himself worthy in being multilingual. Heinzerling was forced to join the chaplaincy of Count Tilly's army during the Thirty Years' War, and had left that post carrying messages three months before and not been in any hurry to go back. For the time being Monsignor Mazarin had appropriated him as aide-de-camp. Secretly, Heinzerling sired a family with Hannelore Heinzerling.