Maxixcatl

Maxixcatl[1] was the tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Ocotelolco at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

Maxixcatl
Funeral urn
King of Ocotelolco
Preceded by	Cuitlixcatl
Succeeded by	Lorenzo Maxixcatl
About
Born	c.
Died	1520
Children	Lorenzo Maxixcatl

Ocotelolco was one of the four towns that formed the state of Tlaxcallan. Mase Ecasi gave his daughter, baptized as Dona Luisa, to Juan Velazquez de Leon, both of whom were killed on La Noche Triste.[2]^:307 Maxixcatzin was instrumental in forming the alliance between Tlaxcallan and the Spanish force of Hernán Cortés against the Aztecs.[2]^:140–188 Maxixcatl died in the smallpox epidemic which decimated the indigenous population of central Mexico in 1520.[2]^:311

He was succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lorenzo Maxixcatl.

See also

• Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
• Xicotencatl II
• Xicotencatl the Elder

References

1. The Nahuatl name is often used in the honorific form as Maxixcatzin.
2. Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, ISBN 0140441239

Further reading

• Hassig, Ross (2001) "Xicotencatl: rethinking an indigenous Mexican hero", Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, UNAM (Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl).