Thomas Bungay

[6] He was educated at Oxford and Paris in the mid-13th century[6] and, at an unknown date, entered the Order of the Friars Minor (Franciscans) at Norwich.

[10][7] He wrote Quaestio in Aristotelis de Caelo et Mundo, a commentary on Gerard's edition[11] of Aristotle's work On the Heavens.

[7] Despite their roughly contemporaneous studies and later legends, no real evidence of a relationship between Bungay and Roger Bacon has yet been discovered.

[13] 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.

[16] Bungay serves a similar sidekick role in Doctor Mirabilis, James Blish's fictional biography of Roger Bacon.