Meaning of agotes by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Agotes: cursed and discriminated against minority social group from the 12th century to the 20th in areas of the Basque country, Navarra, Aragon and Aquitaine. PIO and Baroja speaks of them in the hours of solitary to placing the last stronghold on the Navarre of Arizcun, district of Bozate, town where there was a popular saying: " to the exhaust, garrote blow on the neck ". There are various theories about the cause of discrimination. I think that they were descendants of the Albigensians, heretics away from France in the 12th century pursued by troops of the Pope and the King of France. They were great artisans of stone, wood and iron and, says Pius and Baroja, many had Germanic aspect: " there are old in Bozate resembling portrait of Dürer's... "