Hethum of Korikos

Hethum of Korikos, called the Historian (c. 1240–c. 1310), was an Armenian nobleman and chronicler of the Hethumid house. The son of Oshin, prince of Korikos, he governed that city until he conspired against King Hethum II and was exiled in 1294. In 1299 he made a pilgrimage to Paris, and in 1305 entered the Premonstratensian order at Bellapais Abbey in Cyprus.

In 1307, as prior at Poitiers, he dictated his Flower of the Histories of the East at Pope Clement V's request, an influential account of the Mongols and the East. After Hethum II's murder he returned to Armenia as constable, last recorded alive in 1309.