Abbot of Amboise

	Human
	Earth
	The Massacre
	William Hartnell

The Abbot of Amboise was the right-hand man of the Cardinal of Lorraine, the religious leader of the Catholics in France.

He was a physical double of the First Doctor, and Steven believed him at first to be the Doctor in disguise.

The Abbot was strongly anti-Huguenot and a member of the conspiracy to assassinate Admiral Gaspard de Coligny in August 1572. When the plan failed, Marshal Gaspard de Saux-Tavannes blamed the Abbot and had him executed.

The Abbot's death was blamed on the Huguenots, a religious minority living in Paris at the time. (TV: The Massacre)

Trivia

• No official visual record exists of William Hartnell as the Abbot beyond the surviving soundtrack and some fan-made photographs featuring Hartnell's photoshopped head on a cloak. This is because The Massacre was never tele-snapped and no footage is known to have survived.