Matt‘ēos Uṛhayets‘i
Date of Birth: Unknown; before 1100
Place of Birth: Unknown
Date of Death: Unknown; possibly by 1138
Place of Death: Unknown; probably Edessa
Biography
The only information about the life of Matthew of Edessa is contained in his one surviving work, the Chronicle (Zhamanakagrut‘iwn). He was a priest, and probably a lifelong resident of the city of Edessa (modern Urfa in Turkey). Writing in the 1130s, h…