Hayton of Corycus

An image from Hayton's work *La Flor des Estoires*, shows Hayton remitting his report on the Mongols to Pope Clement V in 1307.

Hayton of Corycus (also Hethum, Het'um, and variants;^[1] Armenian: Հեթում Պատմիչ, romanized: Hetʿowm Patmičʿ, lit. 'Hethum the Historian'; c. 1240 – c. 1310/1320^[2]) was a medieval Armenian nobleman, monk and historiographer.

Hayton is the author of La Flor des estoires de la terre d'Orient ("Flower of the Histories of the East";^[2] Latin: Flos historiarum terre Orientis), a historiographical work about the history of Asia, especially about the Muslim conquests and the Mongol invasion, which he dictated at the request of Pope Clement V in 1307, while he was at Poitiers. The Old French original text was recorded by one Nicolas Faulcon, who also prepared a Latin translation. The work was widely disseminated in the Late Middle Ages and was influential in shaping western European views of the Orient.^[3]

^ variously Aytonus, Hetoum, Haiton, Haitho, etc.; also Latinized as Antonius Curchinus
^ ^a ^b Het'um the Armenian. Het'um the Historian's History of the Tartars [Flower of Histories of the East]. Translated by Bedrosian, Robert. pp. 7.
^ Jackson, p. 334

[1] variously Aytonus, Hetoum, Haiton, Haitho, etc.; also Latinized as Antonius Curchinus

[:0-2] Het'um the Armenian. Het'um the Historian's History of the Tartars [Flower of Histories of the East]. Translated by Bedrosian, Robert. pp. 7.

[3] Jackson, p. 334

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