{"id":1842,"date":"2021-01-03T17:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2021-01-03T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T16:46:41","slug":"begijn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/begijn\/","title":{"rendered":"beguine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>unmarried woman or widow living under the guidance of a grand mistress in a religious community<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps after the Li\u00e8ge priest Lambert le B\u00e8gue (\u20201182).<\/p>\n<p> Le B\u00e8gue founded the Beguine order around 1180. According to his biographer, he was rich and pious and had a church and small houses built on his estate, where women who had renounced marriage could live in peace: the first beguines.<\/p>\n<p> He would have gained many supporters among the people, but many opponents among the nobility and the church. The beguines spread all over Europe, but especially in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p> According to other studies, the word &#039;beguine&#039; is derived from the color name beige, originally meaning the color of natural wool, ie gray or brown, colors worn by members of the poverty movements in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>Because the movement was banned outside the Netherlands in 1311 because of heresy, it is sometimes thought that the word &#039;begijn&#039; stems from &#039;beghinus&#039;, a popular distortion of &#039;albigensis&#039;, a name for the Cathar heretics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unmarried woman or widow living under the guidance of a grand mistress in a religious community <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/begijn\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eponiemen","infinite-scroll-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}