DUBOIS, PIERRE (Petrus de Bosco). - Writer born c. 1250 at Coutances or in its vicinity (Normandy) and died c. 1321. Between 1269 and 1272 he studied in Paris. In 1300 he was advocate for royal causes at Coutances, an office which from 1306 he also exercised in the service of Edward I of England.
A typical figure of the medieval writer, he took an important part in the struggle of Philip the Fair against the Church, especially in the matters concerning Boniface VIII and the Templars. His writings of greatest interest in this regard are the Deliberatio super agendis a Philippo rege contra epistolam Bonifacii papae VIII, and the Supplication du peuple de France au roi contre Boniface VIII (ed. P. Dupuy, Histoire du différend, etc., Paris 1655, pp. 44 for the former and 214-19 for the latter). His principal work, dedicated to Edward I of England, is the De recuperatione Terrae Sanctae (ed. V. Langlois, Paris 1891).