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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
Since the twelfth century, a name for pious women who lived in small voluntary groups for religious purposes, but did not take religious vows. They were free to own property, to leave the group and to marry. Beghards were men who lived the same sort of life. They were prominent in Low Countries and the Rhineland; sometimes suspected by church authorities of heresy.
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# A clergyman who belonged to a cathedral chapter or collegiate church. Those who observed a written rule, often the Rule of St Augustine, were called regular canons. Those who held personal property and lived in their own houses were called secular canons.
# A prebendary of a cathedral or collegiate church.
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A student of, or graduate in, canon law and often a practitioner in the church courts.
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