Waldenses, a Christian community founded in 1170 in the south of France, on the model of the primitive Church, by Peter Walden, a rich citizen of Lyons, and who were driven by persecution from country to country until they settled in Piedmont under the name of the Vaudois (q.v.), where they still exist.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Waldeck-Pyrmont * Wales