Albigenses (Albigen`ses) , a religious sect, odious, as heretical, to the Church, which sprung up about Albi, in the S. of France, in the 12th century, against which Pope Innocent III. proclaimed a crusade, which was carried on by Simon de Montfort in the 13th century, and by the Inquisition afterwards, to their utter annihilation.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Albi * Albinos