Crusades Encyclopedia                                                      Return to Crusades Encyclopedia                                                                  Pierre Dubois                                                    (Also referred to as Peter Dubois) Pierre Dubois was born between 1250 and 1255 in Normandy into a bourgeois family. He later studied at the University of Paris (c. 1269-1272) where he attended the lectures of Thomas Aquinas. (1) 1. Walther Brandt, "Introduction" in Dubois, Pierre, . The Recovery of the Holy Land. Ed. and Trans. Walther Immanuel Brandt. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956), 3-4. (c) Andrew Holt, July, 2009. Permission is granted for electronic copying and distribution in print for educational and personal use. No permission is granted for commercial use.