NOUN
- a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
How To Use Albigenses In A Sentence
- Notwithstanding that the name Albigenses was given after the council of Lombers to the new Manichaeans, Albi was less identified with the great religious and political struggle of Southern Gaul in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries than were Castres and other neighbouring towns. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
- Albigenses, and the cruel Piedmontese with the Vaudois, that they turn to bloody Rome; the Pope will no doubt welcome them, for the Lavengro
- Vaudois in the twelfth, and that of the Albigenses in the thirteenth century. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Concentrated in Albi, a southern French town near Toulouse, the Cathars became known as the Albigenses, and by 1209 they were considered powerful and dangerous enough to warrant a military campaign led by Simon de Montfort to silence them. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The Waldenses (of whom the Albigenses are a species) were," he says, "never free from the most wretched excess of fascination;" and finally, though he allows the conduct of the judges to have been most odious, he cannot prevail on himself to acquit the parties charged by such interested accusers with horrors which should hardly have been found proved even upon the most distinct evidence. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
- Cathari, Poor Men of Lyons, Lombards, Albigenses, Waldenses, Vaudois, etc. The name Waldenses and Albigenses have frequently been loosely applied to all the bands of people that passed under various titles in different countries and that opposed the doctrines and ecclesiastical tyranny of Rome. The Revelation Explained
- The wars of the Count of Toulouse against the Albigenses were the tail end of that dispute. The Atheist's Mass
- The Albigenses were a people of the reformed religion, who inhabited the country of Albi. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
- In the South of France was a sect of Christians called Albigenses General History for Colleges and High Schools
- The Church defined heresy, and repressed it severely, as when Pope Innocent III launched the armed Crusade that brutally repressed the Albigenses and desolated much of southern France.