Pierre Du Moulin ( Latinized as Petrus Molinaeus; 16 October 1568 – 10 March 1658) was a
Huguenot
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minister in
France
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who also resided in England for some years.
Life
Born in
Buhy
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in 1568, he was the son of Joachim Du Moulin, a Protestant minister in the
Orléans
Orléans (;"Orleans" (US) and Academy of Sedan and subsequently trained for the ministry in London and Cambridge. In 1592 he moved to the University of Leiden where he taught for several years. In 1598 he returned to France and became a minister of the
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
church in Paris and Charenton. Du Moulin returned to England in 1615 at the invitation of King James I.; online ed., Oct 2008. Through the King he was made a D.D. at Cambridge and was appointed a
prebendary
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at
Canterbury Cathedral
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in 1615 (Stall IV). In 1621 his situation in France became dangerous and he moved back to Sedan, where he taught at the academy. In 1624 he returned to England, where he obtained an ecclesiastical sinecure from King James. He returned to Sedan in 1625 and died there in 1658.
Works
He was a prolific author, penning a critique of the
Roman Catholic
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Mass based on the Bible, ''Anatomie de la Messe'', and a defense of the French Reformed Confession of Faith against its
detractors, ''Bouclier de la Foi''. An English translation of his was published posthumously in 1674 by his son
Peter Du Moulin
Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the Huguenot pastor Pierre du Moulin and brother of Lewis du Moulin. He was the anonymous author of ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus paricidas Anglicanos'', ...
.
In September, 1610, the biting satire ''Anti-Coton, in which it is proved that the Jesuits are guilty of parricide against Henri IV'' was followed by many pamphlets for and against the Jesuits. The Anti-Coton pamphlet attacked the Jesuits, and especially Father
Pierre Coton
Pierre Coton (7 March 1564, at Néronde in Forez – 19 March 1626, at Paris) was a French Jesuit and royal confessor.
Life
Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-five, and was sent to Milan to ...
, the confessor of Henry IV, of whose murder the Jesuits had been accused by their enemies. Daurignac says (Hist. Soc. Jesus, vol. i., p. 295) that this pamphlet was attributed to Pierre Du Moulin.
Lewis Du Moulin
Lewis Du Moulin (''Ludovicus Molinaeus''; pseudonym: ''Ludiomaeus Colvinus''; 1606–1680) was a French Huguenot physician and controversialist, who settled in England. He became Camden Professor of History at the University of Oxford.
Life
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and
Peter Du Moulin
Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the Huguenot pastor Pierre du Moulin and brother of Lewis du Moulin. He was the anonymous author of ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus paricidas Anglicanos'', ...