Beguines and Beghards

Catholic lay occupation

French mystic

German mystic

Countess of Flanders (1200-1244)

Saint Begga (also Begue, Beghe, Begge) (615 – 17 December 693) was the daughter of Pepin of Landen, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and his wife Itta. She is also the grandmother of Charles Martel, who is the grandfather of Charlemagne.

thumb|Medieval manuscript page of a Hadewijch poem

religious movement in northern Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries

Flemish Cistercian nun

15th c. French abbess: founded Colettine Poor Clares

Belgian saint

abbot, regent of the Kingdom of Majorca

the last beguine

13th-century Provençal saint

Dutch mystic

theologian

Priest, writer and translator from Liège