By portraying women as saints and local patrons, the work of Osbern Bokenham (1393–post-1471) elucidates multiple aspects of women’s roles in late medieval England. Moreover, the Augustinian friar, who lived at Clare Priory in Suffolk, England, staked a position in the central political conflict of his day – York versus Lancaster competing for the throne of England – aligning himself with women through contemporary dynastic theory (Delany, Impolitic bodies. Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, New York, 1998).