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{{Short description|French knight}}
{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix          = [[Sir]]
| name          = Sanchet D'Abrichecourt
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Garter|KG]]
| image         = Dabrichecourt 1430.jpg
| alt           = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software -->
| caption       = Sir Sanchet D'Abrichecourt, KG, illustration from the [[Bruges Garter Book]], c.1430
| birth_name    = <!-- only use if different from name -->
| birth_date    = c.{{Birth year|1330}}
| birth_place   = [[Bugnicourt]]
| death_date    = c.{{Death year and age|1359|1330}}
| death_place   = 
| other_names   = D'Abridgecourt, Dabridgcourt, Dabrichecourt or Aubréciourt
| nationality   = French
| occupation    = knight
| years_active  = 
| known_for     = founder [[Knight of the Garter]]
| notable_works = 
| father        = Sir Nicholas D'Abrichecourt
| children      = 2 sons
| relatives     = [[Eustace d'Aubrichecourt]] (younger brother)
}}
'''Sir Sanchet D'Abrichecourt''' ({{circa|1330}} – {{circa|1359}}) was a French knight and a founder [[Knight of the Garter]]. His surname was alternatively spelt D'Abridgecourt, Dabridgcourt, Dabrichecourt or Aubréciourt and derived from the [[French Hainaut|Hainault]] town of [[Auberchicourt]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.themcs.org/characters/Sanchet%20DAbrichecourt.htm| title = Historical Information Sanchet D'Abrichecourt 1330-1349| publisher = The Medieval Combat Society |accessdate = 2012-04-05}}</ref>

[[File:Coat of Arms of Sir Sanchet d'Abrichecourt, KG.png|thumb|200px|Arms of Sir Sanchet d'Abrichecourt, KG]]
He was born in [[Bugnicourt]], the son of Sir Nicholas D'Abrichecourt, a nobleman from Hainault who had come to England in 1326 as an escort of [[Isabella of France|Queen Isabella]]. The queen was returning from France with her son Edward with the ultimately successful objective of deposing her husband, [[Edward II of England|Edward II]], and setting the younger Edward on the English throne in his father's place. Sanchet had a younger brother, [[Eustace d'Aubrichecourt|Eustace]].<ref name = MOG>{{cite book |last=Beltz |first=George Frederick |year=1841 |place=London |publisher=W. Pickering |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsorderg01beltgoog/page/n322 |title=Memorials of the most noble Order of the Garter, from its foundation to the present time. Including the history of the order; biographical notices of the knights in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., the chronological succession of the members |pages=90–92}}</ref>

In 1348 he was selected by [[Edward III of England|Edward III]] as a founder [[Knight of the Garter]] and allocated stall number 25 in [[St George's Chapel]] at Windsor, the spiritual home of the new order of chivalry. He died within a few years, however, and his place in the order was taken in 1359 by Sir William FitzWaryne.<ref name = MOG/>

He left two sons, Sir John Dabrichecourt, MP for [[Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Derbyshire]] and [[Constable of the Tower]] (1413-1415) <ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/dabrichecourt-sir-john-1415| title = DABRICHECOURT, Sir John (d.1415), of Markeaton, Derbys.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate = 2012-04-05}}</ref> and Sir Nicholas Dabrichecourt,<ref>[http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no541a/aCP40no541afronts/IMG_0167.htm Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas, 1396]; National Archives; CP 40/541; second entry</ref>  [[Esquire of the Body]] to Edward III, MP for [[Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Hampshire]] and Constable of [[Nottingham Castle]].<ref name = MOG/> The castle had been the scene of Edward III's coup in 1330 against his mother, Isabella, and [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March]]. Nicholas married heiress Elizabeth Say of [[Stratfield Saye]], Hampshire.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/dabrichecourt-sir-nicholas-%28or-collard%29-1400| title= DABRICHECOURT, Sir Nicholas (or Collard) (d.1400), of Stratfield Saye, Hants.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate = 2012-04-05}}</ref>

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