Albigenses were a group named for Albi, a city in southern France. They are part of a sect called the Cathari,which flourished on parts of France, Germany and Italy during the 12th and 13th centuries. They believed that the principles of good and evil continually oppose each other in the world. The Albigenses opposed marriage, bearing children, and eating meat. They advocated suicide, especially by starvation. In the 14th century the church declared them heretics. In the years that followed the Crusades and Inquisitions against them, they slowly disolved, and by the 15th century they had completely dissapeared. Location within France Albi is a city and commune in southern France. ... (13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400. ... Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the ‘catholic’ or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. ... This article is about historical Crusades . ... The Inquisition was an office of the Roman Catholic Church charged with suppressing heresy. ...