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Cuaucuauhtzin was an Aztec lord, of Tepechpan, born around the year 1410. He was a renowned poet in the Pre-Columbian nahua world but little else is known about his life. His king or "tlatoani" was Nezahualcoyotl with whom he shared the same ideas in his poems:
- The feather of the quetzal will break,
- the paintings will fade,
- the flower will die.
- Will they exist
- in the house of the giver of life?"
He died in 1440 (year 13 knife in the Aztec calendar), through a plot by Nezahualcoyotl who coveted his young wife Azcalxóchitzin. He was sent to die on the war front. He wrote a poem in a style called "sad song" when he discovered the plot.
