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This may sound a bit bizarre to you, but I think I have some insight for you as to Louis Brouquart of Mouscron. I use my imagination a lot with research and my instincts often pay off. Besides, I have been working on similar lines and this just fits into a pet theory of mine.
Sometimes you need to work on a theory centuries in advance of where your paper trail leaves off. In this case I suggest looking to the origins of Mouscron circa 1080 and to etymological relationships with other families hailing from this region. You need to consider what people in their culture thought and believed because this was the middle ages before the first crusade: the des Ursins family in France arose at the same time as the Urini or Orsini family in Italy tracing their ancestry from a bear! The house of Anjou/Angeou/Plantagenet shared with the house of Luxemburg/Luxembourg and the house of Lusignan a mermaid as their ancestor. The leader of the first crusade in 1099 seriously traced himself to Lohengrin the swan knight and the region of Lothringen/Lorraine was named after this Lohengrin. Some legends even say the mermaid aforementioned was Lohengrin's daughter! Whether we consider these things fairy stories or not is not the point: our ancestors in the middle ages did not think like us. They lived in a flat world inhabited by dragons. If you do not try to think like them you are going to miss vital evidence, particularly as to how and why they chose their names.
Bruxels is related to Brussels in etymological terms. I think it is going to turn out to be the same origin as the Bruce family that came from Brussels and used the Brus name in Normandy a generation before they participated in the battle of Hastings in 1066. These people were not tied down and moved from region to region such as Brus from Brussels to Normandy in two generations where Adam "Le Meschin Brus" built the Chateau d'Adam and they were in the battle of Hastings 33 years after that in 1066 and in the first crusade in Jerusalem in one more generation 33 years later in 1099 and 33 years after that were established in Scotland. The "place of the swamp" is my name: Bruxels.
There was still plenty of fluidity in terms of changing and altering names right through the 1500s in Europe. Spellings kept changing right up through the 1600s. What more motivation would you need than the drama of a religious movement such as the Huguenots? The name Shumate/Chaumettre dates from the 1600s when Huguenots were fleeing that part of Belgium. A "Broussard" would be my first choice of a guess for a man moving into German speaking territory in the 1600s. Look for all the Broussards born about 1620 and especially Ludovico or Louis. I wouldn't rule out anything even remotely related to Brus though.
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