Äl'bi-gēn'sēs or Äl'bi-gēois', n. pl.

n. pl. (Eccl. Hist.) A party of reformers, who separated from the church of Rome in the 12th century;—so called from Albi, in Languedoc.

They are sometimes confounded with the Waldenses; but they were prior to them in time, differed from them in some of their tenets, and resided in a different part of France. Mosheim.