Thomas Bungay ( or ;Personal Names of the Middle Ages, p. 653. ),. also known as (; ) and formerly also known as , was an English Franciscan friar, scholar, and alchemist.
Life Thomas was born in Bungay, a market town in Suffolk. He was educated at Oxford and Paris in the mid-13th century and, at an unknown date, entered the Order of the Friars Minor (Franciscans) at Norwich. He lectured as the 10th Franciscan "Reader in Divinity" at Oxford, certainly in the years 1270–72, before leaving to serve as the 8th Minister Provincial of the Franciscans in England during the years 1272–75. (He was succeeded at Oxford by John Peckham.) From around 1275 to at least 1283,. he served as the 15th Franciscan master at Cambridge.. He wrote , a commentary on Gerard's edition. of Aristotle's work On the Heavens.Cambridge Gonville & Caius MS 509 (XIII), f. 208–252. Other questions are attributed to him in MS Assisi 158, in the Palazzo Giacobetti in Assisi. He died at Northampton, England.
Despite their roughly contemporaneous studies and later legends, no real evidence of a relationship between Bungay and Roger Bacon has yet been discovered..
Legend He is better known from later English legend, which made him Roger Bacon's sidekick in the stories that developed around that scholar's knowledge of alchemy and supposed mastery of magic.The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay.The Famous Historie of Frier Bacon. In some versions, he is killed by the German mage Vandermast.
The most famous version of the legend is the Elizabethan play Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene.
Bungay may owe his magical reputation to a separate Friar Bungay, who seems to have been a magician in the 15th century..
Legacy Bungay serves a similar sidekick role in Doctor Mirabilis, James Blish's fictional biography of Roger Bacon.
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