Members of a medieval heretical Christian sect in southern France, known as the Cathars, who were persecuted and largely eliminated in the 13th century.
From Albi, a city in southern France, with the Latin plural suffix -enses. The sect was named for their association with the Albi region.
The Albigenses were systematically hunted down in one of the first great religious purges of medieval Europe—thousands were burned at the stake, and it created the legal framework for later religious persecutions!
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