Aygektsi was born in Ma'arrata, a village near Afrin, then located in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

In 1208, he started living at the monastery of Aygek on the Amanus Mountains, near the village Yenicekale,[1] for an unknown reason.

In 1668, an extensive collection of Aygektsi's fables, under the title Aghvesagirq (Book of the Fox) was published in Amsterdam.

[4] In 1975, Soviet-era director Robert Sahakyants made a 10-minute animated film, The Fox Book, based on Aigektsi's Fables.

[7] The Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia has also presented an outdoor musical-theatrical production based on Aigektsi's Fables.