Petrus Boherius

Biography

 

• 1310-1315: Born in Carcassonne (France).
• Joined the Benedictines.
• Doctor Decretorum and Abbot in Aquila.
• 1364: Bishop in Orvieto.
• 1372: Bishop in Vaison.
• 1376: Bishop again in Ovrieto.
• fled from Urban VI. to France.
• Chaplain of Charles VI.
• Death: 1380.

 

Activities as Canonist

 

• Commentarius in costitutionibus Benedicti XII. Pastor bonus
• Commentarius in regulam S.Benedicti
• De professione monachorum
• Commentarius in Summa magistri
• Coemmntaries on Dudum pro bono, Pastor bonus, Cum pro reformation.
• Speculum monachorum
• De canonical portione

 

Introductory Secondary Literature

 

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
•  SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, p.256.