Tlilpotoncatzin

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Tlilpotonqui
2nd
Tlacaelel I
Succeeded byTlacaelel II
About
Died
FatherTlacaelel
MotherMaquiztzin
WivesXiuhtoztzin
Quauhtlamiyahualtzin
Children14 children

Tlilpotonqui or Tlilpotoncatzin (died in the year

Mexico-Tenochtitlan
.

Tlilpotoncatzin was the second son of

Amaquemecan Chalco.[1] Tlilpotoncatzin succeeded his father as cihuacoatl upon his death in the year 8 Reed (1487).[2]

A quetzalpatzactli, from the Codex Mendoza.

According to the

Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, composed around 1598, Tlilpotoncatzin was a great, brave warrior. In battle he wore the quetzalpatzactli, a crest of quetzal feathers.[3]

Tlilpotoncatzin took at least two wives, both from Amaquemecan: Xiuhtoztzin, the daughter of Yaopaintzin,

quauhtlatoani of Tequanipan Huixtoco; and Quauhtlamiyahualtzin, a noblewoman from Acxotlan Cihuateopan.[4] He fathered fourteen children, eleven males and three females.[5] A son by Xiuhtoztzin, Miccacalcatl Tlatletecuintzin, was installed as the ruler of Tequanipan;[6] and one of his daughters, Tzihuacxochitzin II, married Moctezuma II, and gave birth to Leonor Moctezuma and María Moctezuma.[7]

Tlilpotoncatzin died in the year 11 Reed (1503).[8] He was succeeded by his nephew Tlacaelel II, the son of his elder brother Cacamatzin.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, pp. 49, 141–143.
  2. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 53; vol. 2, p. 35.
  3. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 145.
  4. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1., p. 153.
  5. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 143.
  6. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 157; vol. 2, p. 89.
  7. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, pp. 55, 143, 163; vol. 2., p. 109.
  8. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 157; vol. 2, p. 37.
  9. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 55; vol. 2, p. 37.

References

  • Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Preceded by
Tlacaelel I
Mexico-Tenochtitlan

1487–1503 		Succeeded by
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