Beg-whine? Beg-hard? seems like a liberal organization, eh wot?

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02389c.htm

http://www.beguine.org

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall.../bernardgui-inq.html

A colorful history with some ups and downs. They were mystics, perhaps fanatics, perhaps heretics,
perhaps rebellious. Seems that many groups did not fare well in the New World Order of European nationalism and church politics...