Young Jeremy Edward von Vedder was born to his aristocratic mother and father in a small castle in the Black Forest of western Prussia in 1783. He didn't play well with others. Instead, he spent his days at home drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top. Servants and caretakers reported that young Jeremy's mother didn't care about him, and that his daddy didn't give attention. When asked about King Jeremy many years later, one man who had been a servant boy at the castle at the time was quoted as saying, "Clearly I remember pickin' on the boy. Seemed a harmless little fuck." Young Jeremy was intellectually curious, however, and his teachers reported that he regularly spoke in class.