A young French Protestant who worked as secretary to Admiral de Coligny, the senior-most Huguenot leader in Paris in 1572.
Nicholas befriended the Doctor's companion Steven when he found himself stranded in the city, the Doctor having gone off to meet a noted scientist of the day.
He was devoted to the Admiral, and to his faith, but was far more tolerant than some of his hot-headed friends.
The group encountered a young servant girl named Anne, who had fled from the household of the Catholic Abbot of Amboise. She had overheard talk of a notorious mass slaughter of a decade ago, suggesting that a similar atrocity was being planned. The city was full of Huguenots, come to celebrate the wedding of their royal figurehead, Henry of Navarre, to the Catholic King's sister.
Nicholas' friendship with Steven became strained when he identified the Abbot as his friend - as he was identical in appearance to the Doctor.
He later tried to warn his employer of a possible plot against him. de Coligny had the ear of the King, and failed to take the threat seriously.
Not long after an assassination attempt on him, the Admiral was killed in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, in which Nicholas and most of his friends also perished.
Played by: David Weston. Appearances: The Massacre (1966).
- Weston returned to the series in 1981, playing the Tharil Biroc in Warriors' Gate.
- Noted for Shakespearean roles, he has also featured in horror movies with both Lon Chaney Jnr (Witchcraft), and Vincent Price (The Masque of the Red Death) - both 1964.
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