Antoine de Mouchy

Mouchy, Antoine de (called DEMOCHARES), theologian and canonist, b. 1494, at Ressons-sur-Matz, near Beauvais, in Picardy; d. May 8, 1574, at Paris. In 1539 he was appointed rector of the University of Paris. He was also professor at the Sorbonne and canon Poenitentiarius of Noyon. As inquisitor fidei he exerted his influence against the Calvinists. In 1562 he accompanied the Cardinal of Lorraine to the Council of Trent, and in 1564 was present at the Synod of Reims. Mouchy wrote a work in defense of the Mass (Paris, 1562), and edited the “Corpus juris canonici” (3 vols. fol., including the glossa, Paris, 1561; 4 vols. 8vo, without the glossa, Paris, 1547-50; 7 vols. 12mo, Lyons, 1554).

LEO A. KELLY