Beghard

Beguine and Beghard houses being under the control of the adepts of the Free Spirit, with their inmates, mostly unlettered and theologically untrained, revering them as their spiritual superiors in the place of priests.

HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

In 1321 the Dominican Inquisitor at Norbonne, John of Belna, declared heretical the teaching of an imprisoned Beghard of that region, who asserted that Christ and the Apostles owned nothing either individually or in common.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Basle became the leader of the pseudo-Friends of God, but was eventually condemned as a Beghard and burned at Vienna in 1409.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

The Confraternity of the Common Life resembled in several respects the Beghard and Beguine communities which had flourished two centuries earlier and were then decadent.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

And the general tenor of his teaching shows that he was not a Beghard, nor a quietist, nor a pantheist.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

The Franciscan lector, Bérenger Talon, defended the Beghard.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Beguine means -- like Beghard -- "one who is assiduous in prayer," and having been used at first of pious persons generally, became afterwards applied to the societies above mentioned.

The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905

The Beghard and Beguine houses were seized, and the inmates driven forth, or in many cases burnt as heretics.

Three Friends of God: Records from the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso 1887

Nicholas, was therefore a feature in common with Beghard houses.

Three Friends of God: Records from the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso 1887

It is therefore easily accounted for, that the nicknames Beghard, and “good men” (Boni homines), are found really to apply to the same persons.

Three Friends of God: Records from the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso 1887