Flemish lawyer and humanist. Also called Eutrachelus, Eucolus, and Panagathus. Born in Bruges or Ghent in 1539; died in Douai in 1616. After becoming in 1570 doctor in Roman and Canonic Law at the University of Louvain, he was for some time lawyer at Bruges. He teached later the Pandectae at Louvain, till in 1583 he became the first professor of Canonic Law at the University of Douai. At the end of his life, notwithstanding he had been married and was father of 11 children, he was ordained a priest. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 8, 1884-85, Columns 67-68.