Amelius Nott was a pure-blood wizard and the father of Sith apprentice Theodore Nott. He held the noble title of Marquess of Averdale, having inherited it from his own father. Despite the defeat of Voldemort a decade earlier and the subsequent disbandment of the Death Eaters, Amelius Nott still had occasional gatherings with several Death Eaters which had escaped imprisonment in Azkaban.