Walter de Brugge

[5] As a clergyman he was frequently accused of corruption, and he was certainly guilty of pluralism, being Archdeacon of Meath, Archdeacon of Kells, vicar of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, vicar of St. Patrick's Church, Trim, (now Trim Cathedral) from 1381,[6] prebendary of York, Hereford, St. David's, and of Howth in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

[1] He attempted to become Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, but was opposed by John de Karlell, a fellow Baron of the Exchequer.

A petition from Brugge to the English Privy Council dating from about 1377 survives, asking for the King to examine the evidence so that justice might be done to him in the dispute.

The John Brugge who was granted the manors of Ratoath and Ardmulchan in County Meath by the Crown in 1425 may have been a nephew of Walter.

[8] He is said to have possessed a considerable library, and he is the first person known to have owned a copy of the famous medieval poem Piers Plowman, by William Langland, which was written between 1370 and 1380.