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PIERRE DUBOIS (c. 1250-c. 1312)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:DUBOIS (c. 1250-c. 1312)  , See also:French publicist in the reign of See also:Philip the See also:Fair, was the author of a See also:series of See also:political See also:pamphlets embodying See also:original and daring views . He was known to See also:Jean du Tillet in the 16th, and to See also:Pierre See also:Dupuy in the 17th See also:century, but remained practically forgotten until the See also:middle of the 19th century, when his See also:history was reconstructed from his See also:works . He was a See also:Norman by See also:birth, probably a native of See also:Coutances, where he exercised the functions of royal See also:advocate of the bailliage and See also:procurator of the university . He was educated at the university of See also:Paris, where he heard St See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas and Siger of See also:Brabant . He was, nevertheless, no adherent of the scholastic See also:philosophy, and appears to have been conversant with the works of See also:Roger See also:Bacon . Although he never held any important political See also:office, he must have been in the confidence of the See also:court when, in 1300, he wrote his See also:anonymous Summaria, brevis et compendiosa dpctrina felicis expeditions et abbreviationis guerrarum et litium regni Francorum, which is extant in a unique MS., but is analysed by N. de See also:Wailly in the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole See also:des See also:Charles (2nd series, vol. iii.) . In the contest between Philip the Fair and See also:Boniface VIII . See also:Dubois identified himself completely with the secularizing policy of Philip, and poured forth a series of See also:anti-clerical pamphlets, which did not cease even with the See also:death of Boniface . His Supplication du pueble de See also:France an See also:roy contre le pape Boniface le Vllle, printed in 1614 in Acta inter Bonifacium VIII. et Philippum Pulchrum, See also:dates from 1304, and is a heated See also:indictment of the temporal See also:power . He represented Coutances in the states-See also:general of 1302, but in 1306 he was serving See also:Edward I. as an advocate in See also:Guienne, without apparently abandoning his Norman practice by which he had become a See also:rich See also:man . The most important of his works, his See also:treatise De recuperation terrae sanctae,' was written in 1306, and dedicated in its extant See also:form to Edward I., though it is certainly addressed to Philip . Dubois outlines the conditions necessary to a successful crusade—the See also:establishment and enforcement of a See also:state of See also:peace among the See also:Christian nations of the See also:West by a See also:council of the See also:church; the refofm of the monastic, and especially of the military, orders; the reduction of their revenues; the instruction of a number of See also:young men and See also:women in See also:oriental See also:languages and the natural sciences with a view to the See also:government of Eastern peoples; and the establishment of Philip of See also:Valois as See also:emperor of the See also:East .

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king of France was in fact, when once the See also:pope was deprived of the temporal power, to become the suzerain of the Western nations, and in a later and See also:separate memoir Dubois proposed that he should cause himself to be made emperor by See also:Clement V . His zeal for the crusade was probably subordinate to the See also:desire to secure the See also:wealth of the monastic orders for the royal See also:treasury, and to See also:transfer the ecclesiastical See also:jurisdiction to the See also:crown . His ideas on See also:education, on the See also:celibacy of the See also:clergy, and his schemes for the codification of French See also:law, were far in advance of his See also:time . He was an See also:early and violent " Gallican," and the first of the See also:great French lawyers who occupied themselves with high politics . In 1308 he attended the states-general at See also:Tours . He is generally credited with Quaedam proposita papae a rege super facto Templariorum, a draft See also:epistle supposed to be addressed to Clement by Philip . This was followed by other pamphlets in the same See also:tone, in one of which he proposed that a See also:kingdom founded on the See also:property of the See also:Templars in the East should be established on behalf of Philip the Tall . See an See also:article by E . See also:Renan in Hist. lift. de la France, vol. See also:xxvi. pp . 471-536; P . Dupuy Hist. de la condamnation . . . des Templiers (See also:Brussels, 1713), and Hist. du differend entre le pape Bpniface VIII et Philippe le See also:Bel (Paris 1655) ; and Notices et extraits de manuscrits, vol. xx .

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