Peter Quesnel

Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?) was an English Franciscan friar who became the warden of the Franciscan house at Norwich, England. Quesnel held a high reputation as a "theologian and doctor of the canon law", and was the author of Directorium Juris in Foro Conscientiæ et Juridiciali.

Works Quesnel's work is divided into four books: De summa Trinitate et fide Catholica, et de septem Sacramentis; De iisdem Sacramentis ministrandis et accipiendis; De Criminibus quæ a Sacramentis impediunt et de pœnis iisdem injungendis; De iis quæ ad jus spectant ordinate dirigendis. (Little, Greyfriars at Oxford, p. 224 n. 1, Oxf. Hist. Soc.).