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|name			= Helier de Carteret
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|succession		= [[List of seigneurs of Sark|Seigneur of Sark]]
|reign			= 1563–1578
|predecessor		= Position Established
|successor		= [[Philippe de Carteret I]]
|spouse			= [[Margaret de Carteret]]
|issue			= [[Philippe de Carteret I]]
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|father			= [[Édouard de Carteret]]
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[[File:Memorial to Helier de Carteret in St Peter's Church, Sark.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial in St Peter's Church, Sark]]
'''Helier de Carteret''' ([[floruit|fl.]] 1563 – 1578) was the first [[List of seigneurs of Sark|Seigneur]] of [[Sark]], reigning from 1563 to 1578. He was the son of Édouard de Carteret, [[Seigneur of Saint Ouen]] (d. 1533), and grandson of [[Philip de Carteret, 8th Seigneur of St Ouen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.decarteret.org.uk/Database/PS02/PS02_372.HTM |title=Helier de Carteret Seig St O .Sark |website=www.decarteret.org.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010311102045/http://www.decarteret.org.uk/Database/PS02/PS02_372.HTM |archive-date=11 March 2001 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

It was Helier's idea and initiative to re-cultivate the deserted island in 1563, and in 1565 he was rewarded by [[Queen Elizabeth I]] with [[Royal charters applying to the Channel Islands|Letters Patent]] granting him the fief. He was also Seigneur of Saint Ouen in [[Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sepacstamps.eu/jersey-post-celebrates-the-island-of-sark/|website=SEPAC|title=Jersey Post celebrates the island of Sark|date=16 July 2015|quote="On 6 August 1565, Helier De Carteret, the Seigneur of the parish of St Ouen in Jersey, was granted the Isle of Sark by Queen Elizabeth I. Sark was thereby made an inheritable fief, which Helier held from the Crown of England on certain conditions: he had to maintain at least forty men to defend the Island from pirates, do homage to the sovereign and pay an annual 1/20th part of a knight’s fee."}}</ref>

He [[cousin marriage|married his cousin]], Margaret de Carteret. She was the widow of Clement Dumaresq and daughter of the bailiff Helier de Carteret, the uncle and namesake to the Seigneur of Sark. Hellier and Margaret's son was [[Philippe de Carteret I]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Helier_De_Carteret|title=Helier De Carteret |website=Theislandwiki.org|accessdate=19 February 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205193249/http://www.decarteret.org.uk/database/ps02/ps02_372.htm decarteret.org.uk Person Sheet]

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[[Category:Carteret family|Helier de Carteret]]
[[Category:People from Saint Ouen, Jersey]]
[[Category:16th-century English nobility]]
[[Category:Seigneurs of Sark]]

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