Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
Hi, Dennis:
I would think the chances are fairly good that _this_ Louis Brochart was related to the
Louis Broucart (Louis Brouquart) who is identified in the Walloon Congregation records as the father of Bourgon Broucard.
I say this mainly on the basis of the Calvinist connection. In researching the
names BROCART, BROCARD, BROCHART, and BROCHARD at the LDS site, family search.org,
I have come across quite a number of individuals bearing those names in England and Germany of the late 1500s. These Brochards (I use the name in the generic sense) were religious exiles. At this point,
we can't know whether they were also proto-Brokaws but the question is certainly
worth pursuing. Louis Brochart, the "elderly
woolcomber" must have begun his Reformed ministry in the 1540s. We are told that his son became a deacon of the Reformed consistory in Valenciennes. Was he the father of the exiles in England and Germany?
Among these exiles will we find the progenitor of Bourgon Broucard? I haven't completely digested Phyllis Mack Crew's _Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm In The
Netherlands 1544-1569_ but I can say that I
recommend it highly. She makes clear what
most modern histories do not; why it was that
the early Protestant reformers were willing to endure 'fire and sword' for the perpetuation of the Faith. They also endured
frequent periods of exile abroad.
"In 1543, Calvin sent to the Netherlands over two hundred copies of a pamphlet, 'A Short Treatise Showing what the Faithful Man, Knowing the Truth of the Evangile, Must Do when he is among the Papists.' The message
of this short polemic was that God requires us to serve him in body as well as spirit. The true believer must either retire to a place where it is legal to worship publicly, or he must abstain from all idolatry and instruct the ignorant without fear of death, 'for the glory of God...must be more precious to us than this frail and transitory life which is only a shadow'.¹
=============================================¹ Phyllis Mack Crew, _Calvinist Preaching And
Iconoclasm In The Netherlands 1544-1569._ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978,
p. 51.
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/brokaw/messages/309.html | ||
 |
Agreement of Use Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|