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<p> a religious association in the Roman Church, which formed itself, in the 13th century, in the Netherlands, Germany, and France, after the example of the Beguines (q.v.), whom they closely imitated in their mode of life and the arrangement of their establishments. They supported themselves mostly by weaving, but became neither so numerous nor so popular as the Beguines. More generally than the Beguines they associated with the heretical [[Fraticelli]] (q.v.), and the "Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit." They were suppressed by the council of [[Vienna]] in 1311. Most of them joined the third orders of St. Francis or St. Dominic, but yet retained for a long time their name and their mode of life. For a time they found a protector in the [[Emperor]] Louis, but new decrees were issued against them by [[Charles]] IV (1367) and [[Pope]] [[Urban]] V (1369). In 1467 they became, by taking the usual solemn vows, a monastic association, which gradually united with several congregations of the Franciscan order. Their last convents and the name itself were abolished by Pope [[Innocent]] X in 1650. </p> <p> The name [[Beghards]] was commonly given in the 13th and 14th centuries (just as " '''''‘''''' Pietist" and '''''‘''''' Methodist" were afterward used) to persons who opposed or revolted from the worldly tendencies of the Roman Church. The Waldenses, Wickliffites, and Lollards, in [[France]] and England, were so named. See Neander, Ch. Hist. 4, 303; Mosheim, De Beghard. et Beguin. (Lips. 1790); Mosheim, Ch. Hist. cent. 13, pt. in ch. 2, '''''§''''' 40. Other treatises on these orders have been written by Beier (Jen. 1710), Bruhns (Lub. 1719)a Gotze (ib. 1719), Houston (Antw. 1628). (See [[Beguines]]); (See Begue). </p>

 

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