Tezozomoctli (Cuauhtitlan)

Tezozomoctli (originally Teçoçomoctli; ruled 1418[1]–1430[2]) was a tlatoani ("ruler" or "king") of the pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Cuauhtitlan in central Mexico. His palace was located at Huexocalco.[1]

Tezozomoctli
Tlatoani of Cuauhtitlan
Reign	4 Rabbit – 3 Rabbit 1418–1430
Predecessor	Xaltemoctzin
Successor	Tecocoatzin
Born	Tlatelolco
Died	1430 Atzompan
Father	Tlacateotl
Mother	Xiuhtomiyauhtzin

Tezozomoctli was born at the Mexica city of Tlatelolco. His father was Tlacateotl, who was the second tlatoani of Tlatelolco.[3] His mother was Xiuhtomiyauhtzin, the daughter of the tlatoani of Coatl Ichan, Acolmiztli.[4] Tezozomoctli was probably named after his great-grandfather, the powerful ruler of Azcapotzalco.

In the Tepanec War in the year 3 Rabbit (1430), Cuauhtitlan was attacked and defeated by the combined forces of the surrounding peoples. After being informed at his refuge at Cincoc Huehuetocan that Cuauhtitlan had been captured, Tezozomoctli travelled to Atzompan where he allegedly committed suicide by poison.[2]

Ancestors of Tezozomoctli (Cuauhtitlan)[5]
Huehue Tezozomoctli Quaquapitzahuac Tzihuacxochitzin I Tlacateotl Acolmiztli Acxocueitl Tlazozomizqui Tezozomoctli (Cuauhtitlan) Tzompantzin Acolmiztli Xiuhtomiyauhtzin

Notes

1. Bierhorst (1992): pp. 80–81.
2. Bierhorst (1992): pp. 90–93.
3. Bierhorst (1992): p. 91; Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 59, 113. The Annals of Cuauhtitlan (in Bierhorst 1992) actually give Tezozomoctli's father once as Tlacateotl (p. 91) and once as Quauhtlatoa (pp. 80–81), Tlacateotl's successor.
4. Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 113.
5. Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 111–133.

References

• Bierhorst, John (tr.) (1992). History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, 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. ed. and tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.