Editing Cagot (section)

=== Religious origin ===

Another theory is that the Cagots were descendants of the [[Cathar]]s,{{sfnp|Álvarez|2019}}{{sfnp|Hansson|1996}} who had been persecuted for [[heresy]] in the [[Albigensian Crusade]].{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911|p=947}} With some comparisons including the use of the term {{lang|fr|crestians}}<ref name="Roberts, 1993">{{cite journal |last=Roberts |first=Susanne F. |date=October 1993 |title=Des Lépreux aux Cagots: Recherches sur les Sociétés Marginales en Aquitaine Médiévale. by Françoise Bériac |journal=[[Speculum (journal)|Speculum]] |volume=68 |number=4 |pages=1063–1065 |issn=0038-7134 |doi=10.2307/2865504 |jstor=2865504}}</ref> to refer to Cagots, which evokes the name that the Cathars gave to themselves, {{lang|fr|bons crestians}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lafont |first1=R. |last2=Duvernoy |first2=J. |author2-link=Jean Duvernoy |last3=Roquebert |first3=M. |author3-link=Michel Roquebert |last4=Labal |first4=P. |year=1982 |title=Les Cathares en Occitanie |language=fr |trans-title=The Cathars in Occitania |editor=Fayard |pages=7}}</ref> A delegation by Cagots to [[Pope Leo X]] in 1514 made this claim,{{r|Supplement 2010}} though the Cagots predate the Cathar heresy{{sfnp|Robb|2007|p=45}} and the Cathar heresy was not present in Gascony and other regions where Cagots were present.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hudry-Menos |first=Grégoire |author-link=:fr:Grégoire Hudry-Menos |year=1868 |url=https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Revue_des_Deux_Mondes_-_1868_-_tome_74.djvu/595 |title=L'Israël des Alpes ou les Vaudois du Piémont. — II. — La Croisade albigeoise et la dispersion |language=fr |trans-title=The Israel of the Alps or the Vaudois of Piedmont. - II. - The Albigensian Crusade and the dispersion |volume=74 |access-date=13 October 2016 |page=588 |magazine=[[Revue des Deux Mondes]]}}</ref> The historian Daniel Hawkins suggests that perhaps this was a strategic move, as in the {{lang|es|[[limpieza de sangre]]}} statutes such discrimination and persecution for those convicted of heresy expired after four generations and if this was the cause of their marginalisation, it also gave grounds for their emancipation.{{sfnp|Hawkins|2014|p=36}} Others have suggested an origin as Arian Christians.{{sfnp|Gébelin|1842|pp=1182–1183}}{{sfnp|Veyrin|2011|p=85}}

One of the earliest recorded mentions of Cagotes is in the charters of Navarre, developed around 1070.{{sfnp|Hors|1951|p=316}} Another early mention of the Cagots is from 1288, when they appear to have been called {{lang|fr|Chretiens}} or {{lang|la|Christianos}}.{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911|p=947}}{{sfnp|Tuke|1880|p=377}} Other terms seen in use prior to the [[16th century]] include {{lang|la|Crestias}}, {{lang|la|Chrestia}}, {{lang|fr|Crestiaa}}{{sfnp|Erroll|1899}} and {{lang|la|Christianus}},{{r|Supplement 2010}} which in medieval texts became inseparable from the term {{lang|la|leprosus}}, and so in [[Béarn]] became synonymous with the word [[leper]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/cagot |title=Cagot: Etymologie de Cagot |website=[[Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales]] |language=fr |trans-title=Cagot: Etymology of Cagot |access-date=13 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617071330/https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/cagot |archive-date=17 June 2016}}</ref> Thus, another theory is that the Cagots were early converts to [[Christianity]], and that the hatred of their [[pagan]] neighbors continued after they also converted, merely for different reasons.{{sfnp|Robb|2007|p=45}}