Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl

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Aculnahuacatl
Tlatoani of Tlacopan
Reign c. 1400–c. 1430[citation needed]
Full name Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl
Died c. 1430
Successor Totoquihuaztli I
Wife Tlacochcuetzin
Issue Coauoxtli
Oquetzal
Father Tezozomoc

Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl (ruled c. 1400–c. 1430[citation needed]) was the first tlatoani (ruler) of the pre-Columbian Tepanec altepetl (ethnic state) of Tlacopan in the Valley of Mexico.

Aculnahuacatl was a son of Tezozomoc, the ruler of Azcapotzalco, who installed him as ruler of Tlacopan. He married Tlacochcuetzin, the daughter of Tlacacuitlahuatzin, the ruler of Tiliuhcan, and had two sons: Coauoxtli and Oquetzal.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 126–127.

[edit] References

  • Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). "Mexican History or Chronicle", 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, The Civilization of the American Indian Series, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 26–177. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2. 
Preceded by
Tlatoani of Tlacopan Succeeded by
Totoquihuaztli I
Persondata
NAME Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acolnahuacatl
SHORT DESCRIPTION King of Tlacopan
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH circa 1430
PLACE OF DEATH