Beguines and Beghards

Beghards and Beguines were Roman Catholic lay religious communities active in the 13th and 14th century, living in a loose semi-monastic community but without formal vows. They were influenced by Albigensian teachings and by the Brethren of the Free Spirit, which flourished in and near Cologne around the same time but was condemned as heretical.

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Brethren of the Free Spirit Begijnhof, Amsterdam Marguerite Porete Béguinage Pope Gregory XI Pope John XXII Mysticism Nicholas of Basel Lambert Le Bègue Sister Catherine Treatise Beguine (dance) Bega Hadewijch Heresy of the Free Spirit The Mirror of Simple Souls Christina von Stommeln Mechthild of Magdeburg Quietism (Christian philosophy) Mendicant orders John of Ruysbroeck Flagellant St. Francis Council of Vienne Roman Catholic Church Nivelles Anarchists Lier, Belgium Turnhout Catharism Pope Boniface IX Pope Urban V Monasticism Pope Eugene IV Pope Clement V Mechelen Laity Liège (city) Leuven Pantheism Low Countries

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