French Benedictine translator, encyclopaedist and author
1290 CE
to 1362 CE
Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290-1362), also known as Pierre Bercheure and Pierre Berchoire (in Latin, Petrus Berchorius or Petrus Bercorius), is a French author of the Middle Ages.
A Benedictine, he is a translator, encyclopaedist, and the author of several works, including the Ovidius Moralizatus (not to be confused with the Ovide Moralise) (1340), a work of mythography.
The Gesta Romanorum, a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales, is sometimes attributed to him.