 The second friar was Bacon's late contemporary Thomas Bungay.Bungay was a fellow Franciscan who wrote a commentary on Aristotle's "De Caelo" and served as the Franciscans' Minister Provincial over England during the mid-1270s.In addition to Roger Bacon, the tale of the Brazen Head was connected with several other prominent figures of the later Middle Ages, including Robert Grosseteste and Gerbert of Aurillac.