Claim: Edmund de Bromfield was a monk but not well liked so he was sent to Rome where he was appointed to divinity lecturer and he died in 1393.
Evidence: He was a monk of the Benedictine Bury St Edmunds Abbey. Unpopular in the abbey, Bromfield was sent to Rome as public procurator for the whole Benedictine order, a promise being at the same time asked from him that he would seek no preferment in his own community. A reputation for learning followed him to Rome, where he was appointed to lecture on divinity. Bromfield died in 1393, and was buried in Llandaff Cathedral.